Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/163088 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2017/114
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
Literature on social protection in Kenya shows progress in implementation of cash transfers but not the social health insurance scheme. With a dearth of explanation for this contrasting promotion of social protection, this paper examines the role of Kenya's political settlement and the interests of donors. It argues that whereas the competitive clientelist political settlement is conducive to the supply-oriented cash transfer programmes, it is averse to the demand-oriented social health insurance scheme that requires clients to contribute and also threatens the market interests of donors. The paper therefore concludes that the scaling up of social protection is dependent on the convergence between the clientelist interests of politicians and the motivations of donors.
Subjects: 
Kenya
social protection
cash transfers
social health insurance
political settlements
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ISBN: 
978-92-9256-338-7
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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