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Policy diffusion, domestic politics and social assistance in Lesotho, 1998-2012

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Lesotho is a small Southern African country that has introduced two national cash transfer programmes, the Old Age Pension and the Child Grant Programme. Although Lesotho has followed what has been called the 'Southern African model', the introduction of the Old Age Pension was not the result of an explicit process of cross-national policy diffusion. The Child Grant Programme was initially driven by international organizations, but the dynamics were not Southern African, and the Lesotho Government quickly took ownership of the initiative.

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  • Maria Granvik, 2016. "Policy diffusion, domestic politics and social assistance in Lesotho, 1998-2012," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2016-146, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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