Can and should cash transfers be linked to social welfare?
SOURCE: Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2009
TITLE AUTHOR(S): L.M.Richter
KEYWORDS: HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, SOCIAL GRANTS, SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 5968
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/4708
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/4708
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2009
TITLE AUTHOR(S): L.M.Richter
KEYWORDS: HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, SOCIAL GRANTS, SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 5968
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/4708
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/4708
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Abstract
There are proposals that social welfare services be developed in concert with expanding cash transfers to mitigate the impact of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome and poverty on children and families in sub-Saharan Africa. However much the target population might benefit from welfare services, the arguments for pairing services with transfers are not convincing. Cash transfers are best implemented as rights-based entitlements that express the social contract between citizen and state, rather than as a welfare response to need.-
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