Social Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa and Colonial Institutional Legacies
Social Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa and Colonial Institutional Legacies Credit: Kikai, Bashi. “Sekgoma Memorial Hospital, Botswana.” iStock, 2024. Pandit Mami, Research Lead & Analyst, Foreign Policy & Diaspora Studies Policy Labpmami@acstrap.org EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Through political science research, we now know how the colonial legacies in the Global South informed the origin and path dependency of the region’s political and economic institutions. Despite this knowledge, social policy research focusing on government welfare spending outcomes has shed minimal light on how the fragility of these institutions impacts the quality of welfare service delivery. In some ways, the field has encountered the