A craze sweeping the social protection world for Social Registries is systematically depriving some of the world’s poorest not only of social protection but also of access to essential services, according to a new publication (https://www.developmentpathways.co.uk/publications/anti-social-registries-database-excludes-poor-social-protection/).
So argues Stephen Kidd in ‘Anti-Social Registries: How have they become so popular?, in which he says that ranking the poorest to the richest to select beneficiaries of programmes from one database is based on impossible assumptions. Kidd is here asked more about what he brands as “Anti-Social Registries” for unfairly excluding up to a half of all those entitled to social protection programmes.