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Chapter 8 examines the government’s ambiguous social protection response to the growing shortages of land and employment. The government’s initial development strategy aimed at broad-based growth that would obviate the need for programmes to address poverty and food insecurity. The increasingly acute shortage of land and employment, however, constituted a growing distributive crisis during the 2000s. The government did adopt social protection programmes in an attempt to address this distributive threat. However, resource constraints and the government’s ideological resistance to state handouts meant that this response was highly ambiguous. The result was that the government saw social protection as little more than a sticking plaster, temporarily supporting the most vulnerable while buying time for implementation of the national development strategy. Consequently, social protection did little to address the growing distributive problems highlighted in previous chapters.

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