Extending social security to the excluded: Are social cash transfers to the poor an appropriate way of fighting poverty in developing countries?

Global Social Policy

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 246-272

  Leisering, Lutz ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Development policy; Exclusion; Global social policy; Poverty; Social assistance; Social cash transfers

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; SOCIAL EXCLUSION; SOCIAL SECURITY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 70349193694     PISSN: 14680181     EISSN: 17412803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468018109104628     Document Type: Article

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