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...

Manufacturing has traditionally been regarded in the development literature as having special "growth-pulling" or "growth-enhancing" properties. The share of manufacturing in GDP has been declining slightly over time in South Africa, while that of services has been growing. This study focuses on...