Toward redistributive social protection? Insights from Senegal and Morocco

Social protection has come to feature more and more prominently on international and national development agendas. This quest for social protection in developing countries raises an important question: how can social protection act and be supported as an instrument for redistribution of wealth at the national level? Assessing and enhancing the redistributive potential of social protection mechanisms requires a multidimensional analysis and approach, encompassing political, technical, institutional and financial considerations. This study reports on a two-phased research combining conceptual work (Fonteneau & Van Ongevalle, 2015) with case studies in Senegal and Morocco in order to build and test a theoretical framework that can guide the assessment of the redistributive potential of social protection mechanisms in a developing context. (download)

J. Van Ongevalle