The Evolution and Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers in South Africa

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dc.creatorWoolard, Ingrid
dc.creatorLeibbrandt, Murray
dc.date2012-12-03T12:07:19Z
dc.date2012-12-03T12:07:19Z
dc.date2010-10
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-28T10:05:08Z
dc.date.available2015-05-28T10:05:08Z
dc.date.issued2015-05-28
dc.descriptionAt the time of the transition to democracy in 1994, the South African social security system was already notably well developed for a middle income country (Lund 1993; Van der Berg 1997; Case and Deaton 1998). This fact can be ascribed to the way in which the system developed under apartheid as a welfare state for whites which was then incrementally expanded under social and political pressure to incorporate other groups. Thus, at the advent of the new post-apartheid society some important planks for a social assistance system were in place. Since then, a set of policies have been implemented that have expanded this system substantially. Direct spending on cash transfers currently stands at 3.5 percent of GDP. This is more than twice the median spending of 1.4 percent of GDP across developing and transition economies (World Bank 2009).
dc.descriptionThis paper was prepared for the Annual Bank Conference in Development Economics (ABCDE) in Stockholm, 31 May - 2 June 2010. Ingrid Woolard gratefully acknowledges support from the World Bank and the UK Economic and Social Research Council (RES-167-25-0076). Murray Leibbrandt gratefully acknowledges support from the Research Chairs Initiative of the Department of Science and Technology and National Research Foundation.
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11090/66
dc.identifier.ris TY - Report DA - 2015-05-28 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Social security KW - Cash transfers KW - South Africa LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2015 T1 - The Evolution and Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers in South Africa TI - The Evolution and Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers in South Africa UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11090/66 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11090/66
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSouthern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit
dc.publisher.departmentSALDRUen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Commerceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subjectSocial security
dc.subjectCash transfers
dc.subjectSouth Africa
dc.titleThe Evolution and Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers in South Africa
dc.typeReport
uct.type.publicationResearchen_ZA
uct.type.resourceSALDRU Reporten_ZA
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