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Strengthening state-citizen relations in fragile contexts: The role of cash transfers

Pension Watch: Briefings on Social Security in Older Age

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HelpAge International
2011
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This report examines the role of cash transfers in strengthening state-citizen relations in the context of long-term development in fragile states and situations. Cash transfers as part of a wider social protection system have the potential to strengthen state-citizen relations and by extension the legitimacy of the state. However, the current development debate on cash transfers focuses predominantly on the narrow objective of poverty reduction. In the context of fragility, however, it is important to move the debate on cash transfers beyond vulnerability, risk and poverty to using them as a tool to address a central underlying manifestation of fragility – the absence of a functioning state-citizen relationship.

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