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The Child Support Grant in South Africa: gender, care and social investment

In: Social Investment and Social Welfare

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  • Leila Patel

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This chapter by Leila Patel discusses the gender dimensions of the Child Support Grant (CSG) in South Africa. This is one of the country’s largest social protection programmes, reaching almost 40 per cent of poor children. The CSG is cited as a social investment in social care in the family and households yielding positive outcomes through the empowerment of women, which in turn contributes to improved child well-being. The author draws on national and community-level data on gender and care in South Africa. The data however also point to the limitations of social investment policies in promoting gender justice, especially where such social policies fail to challenge the gendered nature of care in the family, community and in the social service sector. Key words: social investment, international social welfare, social protection, gender, South Africa

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  • Leila Patel, 2017. "The Child Support Grant in South Africa: gender, care and social investment," Chapters, in: James Midgley & Espen Dahl & Amy Conley Wright (ed.), Social Investment and Social Welfare, chapter 6, pages 105-122, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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