Abstract

There have been growing calls to reframe the politics of poverty reduction and of social protection in particular, in terms of extending the ‘social contract’ to the poorest groups. This is often understood as relocating social protection within a broader project politics of rights and justice as opposed to patronage. However, such calls belie the serious differences that exist between different strands of social contract and between the forms of social protection that might emerge from these different approaches. The experience in Africa suggests that contractual approaches may take regressive as well as progressive forms. It seems unlikely that international development agencies could promote progressive social contracts around social protection without significant reforms to the way in which aid currently works. Résumé Il y a dernièrement des appels croissants de définir les politiques de la réduction de pauvreté et de la protection sociale en particulier pour étendre le ‘contrat social’ aux groupes les plus pauvres. Souvent cela veut dire le déplacement de la protection sociale dans les politiques de droits et justice au lieu de parrainage. Cependant, des demandes comme cela contredit les différences sérieuses qui existent entre les éléments différents du contrat social et entre les formes de protection sociale qui peuvent ressortir de cela. L'expérience de la protection sociale en Afrique suggère que les approches contractuelles peuvent prendre des formes régressives autant que progressistes. Il semble peu probable que les agences internationales de développement peuvent promouvoir des contrats sociaux progressistes pour la protection sociale sans des réformes importantes au fonctionnement actuel de l'aide.

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