African households prioritize funeral rites, with important consequences on their welfare. Poor workers with no savings have one investment — their burial society. This article uses the transformation taking place in burial societies to make three arguments. First, social relationships do not...

There is no doubt that child focus in the social protection agenda makes development and economic sense, yet child-sensitive social protection still remains elusive in some African country programmes. The case study of the Productive Safety Net Programme in Ethiopia discussed in this paper shows...

"Taking South Africa as an important case study of the challenges of structural transformation, the book offers a new micro-meso level framework and evidence linking country-specific and global dynamics of change, with a focus on the current challenges and opportunities faced by middle-income...