Public Works and Social Protection in Sub-saharan Africa - Do Public Works Work for the Poor?

Informationen zum Autor Anna Gabriele McCord is a research fellow in Social Protection at the Overseas Development Institute in London, and was previously research manager at the South African Labour and Development Research Unit at theUniversity of Cape Town, South Africa. Klappentext Explores the function and limitations of Public Works Programmes and outlines major programme choice and design issues. This draws lessons from the international context and challenges the assumptions underlying these policy preferences, thus opening the way for more informed and appropriate policy selection.

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• Authors: Anna Gabriele Mccord, United Nations
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2012
• EAN: 9789280812046
• ISBN: 978-92-808-1204-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education