Ideas, Institutions, and Welfare Program Typologies: An Analysis of Pensions and Old Age Income Protection Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa

dc.contributor.authorKpessa, M.W.
dc.contributor.authorKpessa, M.W.
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-21T13:35:57Z
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-14T14:28:48Z
dc.date.available2013-01-21T13:35:57Z
dc.date.available2017-10-14T14:28:48Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractSince the 1980s, social policy research shifted attention from institutional development of welfare programs to what were described as crises of the welfare state in an era of austerity. Much of the scholarly debate in this area had focused on the maturation of welfare programs, especially the post-war old age income support programs in the advanced industrialized countries to the neglect of social protection in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. This paper is intended to bring the dynamics of social policy in SSA countries into the comparative welfare dialogue and into the global social security debate in particular. Using a historical institutionalist approach, this study analyzes the trajectories of old age income support development in SSA countries through a careful study of old age income security or protection strategies in the region across time and space. The paper develops ideal typologies for understandings variations and transformations of pensions and old age income provision programs in the region. In doing this, it argues that the ideas and institutions around which recent rounds of pension reforms revolves have always been at both the foreground and background of old age income protection thinking and practices in SSA countries since the pre-colonial eraen_US
dc.identifier.citationPoverty & Public Policy: Vol. 2: Iss. 1, Article 4en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://197.255.68.203/handle/123456789/2646
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherPolicy Studies Organizationen_US
dc.subjectWelfareen_US
dc.subjectpensionen_US
dc.subjectold age income supporten_US
dc.subjectSub-Saharan Africaen_US
dc.subjectsocial securityen_US
dc.titleIdeas, Institutions, and Welfare Program Typologies: An Analysis of Pensions and Old Age Income Protection Policies in Sub-Saharan Africaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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