Introduction -- Congress passes a law, the labor movement unites, and Walter George retires -- What happened to the disability program and how policy makers tried to respond -- Wilbur Mills, Wilbur Cohen, and Nelson Cruikshank curate Medicare -- The consequences of Medicare from accommodation to...

This paper presents an analysis of the recent evolution of social assistance in the developing world, looking at its complex typological configuration, which has interlinked with, and partly reflects the complex demographic and epidemiological transitions and rapid urbanization and economic...

The Other Welfare -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Creating a New Welfare Program: The Politics of Welfare and Social Security Reform in the Nixon Administration -- 2. A Year in Transition: Why Planning for the New Program Became Difficult -- 3. Launching the Program: Why the Program...

Social assistance programmes proliferated and expanded across much of the global South from the mid-1990s. Within Africa there has been enormous variation in this trend: some governments expanded coverage dramatically while others resisted this. The existing literature on social assistance, or...

Social protection programmes have emerged as one of the most important anti-poverty policy strategies in developing countries. Their effects on poverty and well-being have been widely studied. Yet, there is limited knowledge on how a transfer programme should respond to the dynamics of poverty....