Redefining the ‘affordability’ of social assistance programmes: The Child Support Grant in South Africa, 1998-2014
| dc.contributor.author | Seekings, Jeremy | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-09-05T10:28:58Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-09-05T10:28:58Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The South African Child Support Grant (CSG) is an example of a social assistance programme that, despite chronic anxieties about affordability, expanded rapidly through parametric reforms, primarily of the age limit. The initial concern about affordability was rooted in a severe fiscal crisis facing the South African state in the mid-1990s. This resulted in widespread (but not total) political agreement that the initial programme should be modest. The subsequent improvement in public finances meant that affordability concerns became less binding, and affordability was redefined. Political pressures to address the enduring problem of poverty, and to be seen to do so, resulted in the steady expansion of the programme. Governments make choices about programmes such as the CSG, and these choices are ultimately political. But sometimes fiscal conditions frame the choices in ways that are very likely to result in political near-consensus against programmatic expansion. The ‘affordability’ of social assistance programmes entails a mix of fiscal concerns with political factors. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Seekings, J. (2016). <i>Redefining the ‘affordability’ of social assistance programmes: The Child Support Grant in South Africa, 1998-2014</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21663 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Seekings, Jeremy <i>Redefining the ‘affordability’ of social assistance programmes: The Child Support Grant in South Africa, 1998-2014.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR), 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21663 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Seekings, J. (2016). Redefining the ‘affordability’ of social assistance programmes: The Child Support Grant in South Africa, 1998-2014. CSSR Working Paper No. 379. Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-1-77011-366-4 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Working Paper AU - Seekings, Jeremy AB - The South African Child Support Grant (CSG) is an example of a social assistance programme that, despite chronic anxieties about affordability, expanded rapidly through parametric reforms, primarily of the age limit. The initial concern about affordability was rooted in a severe fiscal crisis facing the South African state in the mid-1990s. This resulted in widespread (but not total) political agreement that the initial programme should be modest. The subsequent improvement in public finances meant that affordability concerns became less binding, and affordability was redefined. Political pressures to address the enduring problem of poverty, and to be seen to do so, resulted in the steady expansion of the programme. Governments make choices about programmes such as the CSG, and these choices are ultimately political. But sometimes fiscal conditions frame the choices in ways that are very likely to result in political near-consensus against programmatic expansion. The ‘affordability’ of social assistance programmes entails a mix of fiscal concerns with political factors. DA - 2016-06 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2016 SM - 978-1-77011-366-4 T1 - Redefining the ‘affordability’ of social assistance programmes: The Child Support Grant in South Africa, 1998-2014 TI - Redefining the ‘affordability’ of social assistance programmes: The Child Support Grant in South Africa, 1998-2014 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21663 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21663 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Seekings J. Redefining the ‘affordability’ of social assistance programmes: The Child Support Grant in South Africa, 1998-2014. 2016 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21663 | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR) | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.title | Redefining the ‘affordability’ of social assistance programmes: The Child Support Grant in South Africa, 1998-2014 | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
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| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Working paper | en_ZA |