Competitive clientelism, donors and the politics of social protection uptake in Ghana

dc.contributor.authorAbdulai, A.G.
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-10T15:02:46Z
dc.date.available2024-09-10T15:02:46Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.descriptionResearch Article
dc.description.abstractGhana’s Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) cash transfer programme has been widely characterised as ‘homegrown’. This article challenges such accounts of the LEAP by showing how donors used their financial muscle to shape the LEAP both at the level of programme adoption and implementation. However, the extent to which donor interests and ideas influenced the programme’s design and implementation depended on the degree to which such interests were aligned with those of domestic political elites. While it was donors who first pushed cash transfers on the agenda of the Ghanaian government, electoral calculus took centre stage in driving the programme’s subsequent expansion and institutionalisation. The article suggests the need to move beyond the donor-driven versus the state-led type of arguments to explore the complex ways in which transnational factors and the formal and informal aspects of domestic politics interact to produce different levels and types of commitment to social protection in Africa.
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi.org/10.1177/0261018320945605
dc.identifier.urihttps://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/42418
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherCritical Social Policy
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVol.; 41
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNo.; 2
dc.subjectcash transfers
dc.subjectcompetitive elections
dc.subjectdonors
dc.subjectpolitical settlements
dc.subjectpolitics
dc.titleCompetitive clientelism, donors and the politics of social protection uptake in Ghana
dc.typeArticle

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