Safety Nets in Africa: Effective Mechanisms to Reach the Poor and Most Vulnerable

Les filets sociaux en Afrique

Carlo del Ninno and Bradford Mills

No 21369 in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group

Abstract: The need for safety nets in Sub-Saharan Africa is vast. In addition to being the world’s poorest region, Sub-Saharan Africa is also one of the most unequal. In this context, redistribution must be seen as a legitimate way to fight poverty and ensure shared prosperity - and all the more so in countries where growth is driven by extractive industries that are not labor-intensive and often employ very few poor people. Given that most African countries face difficult decisions about how to allocate limited resources among a number of social programs, evidence is important. Do Safety Net programs actually benefit the poorest people? This book demonstrates with empirical evidence that it is possible to reach the poorest and most vulnerable people with safety net programs, and provides lessons for the effective use of targeting methods to achieve this outcome in the region.

Keywords: Health; Nutrition and Population-Health and Poverty Poverty Reduction-Poverty Reduction Strategies Poverty Reduction-Services & Transfers to Poor Social Protections and Labor-Safety Nets and Transfers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4648-0435-9
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (14)

Downloads: (external link)
https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstreams/32a ... 771f8b370b6/download (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wbk:wbpubs:21369

Access Statistics for this book

More books in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group 1818 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20433. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Tal Ayalon ().