Simulation of options to replace the special COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress grant and close the poverty gap at the food poverty line

Maya Goldman, Ihsaan Bassier, Joshua Budlender, Lindi Mzankomo, Ingrid Woolard and Murray Leibbrandt

No wp-2021-165, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: We use a fiscal incidence model based on the South African 2014/15 Living Conditions Survey to simulate the poverty reduction impacts of a selection of medium-to-long-term social grant options with the goal of replacing the existing special COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress grant upon its expiry and closing the extreme (food poverty line) poverty gap. Our key findings are that the introduction of a household-targeted family poverty grant is theoretically able to reduce extreme poverty most efficiently; however, it faces stark implementation challenges.

Keywords: Fiscal incidence; Social protection; Social spending; Poverty; South Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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