This article focuses on the sound and significant fiscal imbalances in the 2008-2018 period the EU Member States attained, mainly due to the last global financial crisis. A coordinated response, primarily induced by Stability and Growth Pact, was required to restore budget equilibrium and...

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...

Ghana administers multiple social protection programs. One of these, pensions provided by the Social Security and National Insurance Trust, has a long history, but others-the Ghana School Feeding Programme, Labor-Intensive Public Works program, Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty program, and...