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Colonial Legacies and Social Welfare Regimes in Africa: An Empirical Exercise

In: The Politics of Domestic Resource Mobilization for Social Development

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  • Thandika Mkandawire

    (London School of Economics)

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Mkandawire identifies three types of welfare regimes in Africa based on the insight that tax and expenditure regimes are closely associated. The author highlights historical legacies in current welfare policies using cluster analysis to demonstrate that today’s welfare regimes in Africa have been strongly determined by the ways in which different countries were incorporated into the colonial economy. Many current social welfare reforms are taking place in what he refers to as labour reserve economies, and are generally internally rather than aid-driven. He stresses the importance of thinking of social expenditure in relation to domestic resource mobilization, and argues that the focus on aid and social expenditure has tended to obscure this important aspect of welfare regimes in Africa.

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  • Thandika Mkandawire, 2020. "Colonial Legacies and Social Welfare Regimes in Africa: An Empirical Exercise," Social Policy in a Development Context, in: Katja Hujo (ed.), The Politics of Domestic Resource Mobilization for Social Development, chapter 5, pages 139-172, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:sopchp:978-3-030-37595-9_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-37595-9_5
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