The Demand Side of Social Protection: Lessons from Cambodia’s Labor Rights Experience

Alisa DiCaprio

World Development, 2013, vol. 48, issue C, 108-119

Abstract: In fragile states, recent efforts to advance the social protection agenda have focused primarily on loosening supply-side constraints. But the resulting kaleidoscope of donor-driven projects has often overlooked the need to create a sense of ownership by beneficiaries. In part this is because it is unclear what political and social structures effectively facilitate activism in situations where state-society relations are contentious. We use Cambodia’s unusual success creating and sustaining a labor rights regime to illustrate the dynamics behind one type of social regime change that has opened up governance over worker protections in a sustainable and potentially replicable way.

Keywords: fragile states; Asia; social protection; Cambodia; social movements; labor standards (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.03.008

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