Purpose - This study evaluates the impact of government social protection interventions on households' welfare in South Africa. Design/methodology/approach - The study uses survey data comprising 393 observations and the multinomial logistic regression technique to analyse the effect of...

This paper argues that the reliance of New Labour on a ‘social inclusion through employment' approach, especially in lower-income areas, is problematic. This is due to the significant gap between actual employment rates and a full-employment scenario in such areas, its uni-dimensional view...

China's social safety net is still underdeveloped, hence family support in the form of intergenerational transfers often serves as a substitute for the public transfer system. Using data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, this paper finds that both upstream inter-vivos...

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