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Title: | Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution |
Author: | Ferguson, James |
Year: | 2015 |
Pages: | 264 |
Language: | English |
City of publisher: | Durham; London |
Publisher: | Duke University Press |
ISBN: | 9780822358954; 9780822358862 |
Geographic term: | Southern Africa |
Subjects: | economic policy distribution social welfare |
Abstract: | The author examines the rise of social welfare programs in southern Africa in which states give cash payments to their low income citizens. These programs, Ferguson argues, offer new opportunities for political mobilization and inspire new ways to think about issues of production, distribution, markets, labor and unemployment. |