food security programmes, major challenges remain, particularly in areas like civil society participation, institutional … building, human rights, and democratization. This paper shows that when strong state-society relations are fostered; effective … bargaining and inclusive participation of civil society in social policy making and spending occurs; the state secures mechanisms …

This paper identifies three types of welfare regimes in Africa, based on the insight that tax and expenditure regimes …, demonstrating that welfare regimes in Africa have been strongly determined by the ways in which different countries were … expenditure has tended to obscure this important aspect of welfare regimes in Africa. …