The effectiveness of social protection in five African countries through normal times and times of crisis

Katrin Gasior, Iva Tasseva and Gemma Wright

No wp-2022-174, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: We study the effectiveness of social protection benefits in reducing income and consumption poverty in five sub-Saharan African countries—Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia—in normal times and times of widespread economic crisis. Using tax-benefit microsimulation models with representative household survey data, first we estimate the coverage of benefits and their poverty-reducing effects in each country.

Keywords: Income; Poverty and consumption; Social protection; Benefits; Automatic stabilizers; Crisis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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