Informal Welfare in Low-Income Countries
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Mumtaz, Zahid
Whiteford, Peter
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This blog is based on an article in the Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy by Zahid Mumtaz and Peter Whiteford.
Low-income countries are confronted with fiscal constraints that restrict their capacity to provide welfare to their populations. As a result, informal networks – such as immediate and extended family and friends, NGOs, and religious organisations – fulfill the welfare needs of a large segment of poor and vulnerable people in such countries...
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