Social security reforms in Kenya: Towards a workeristor a citizenship-based system?

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dc.contributor.authorKünzler, Daniel
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-02T07:27:55Z
dc.date.available2018-06-02T07:27:55Z
dc.date.issued2016-05
dc.descriptionfull texten_US
dc.description.abstractWith social security provisions in Kenya remainingunder-reported in the more recent literature, this overviewcovers recent reforms in key areas of the country’ s social secu-rity system. In the health sector and in old-age pension provi-sion social security is still mainly workerist (biased towardthose in formal employment), and attempts to expand cove-rage have had limited effect only – cash transfer programmes,for instance, have been expanded but in practice they do notuniversally cover the entitled categories. Thus, although theKenyan social security system now has a considerable pro-poor social assistance component it remains biased towardthose in formal employment, to the benefit of the highest in-come quintile.en_US
dc.identifier.citation1. In 2012, this culminated in the adoption of the ILO Recommendation concerning national floors of social protectionen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/issr.12095
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1452
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Fribourg, Department of Social Sciences, Switzerlanden_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesInternational Social Security Review, Vol. 69, 1/2016;69, 1/2016
dc.subjectcoverage, social policy, provident fund, socialinsurance, social assistance, Kenya, Africaen_US
dc.titleSocial security reforms in Kenya: Towards a workeristor a citizenship-based system?en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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