Social protection for Mozambique's elderly: History, structure, and potential effectiveness

Sara Almeida, Hanna Berkel, Sam Jones, Patricia Justino and Telça Massingue

No wp-2025-12, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This study assesses the effectiveness of Mozambique's flagship social pension programme, the elderly component of the Programa de Subsídio Social Básico (PSSB). Focusing on three key criteria—programme targeting, reliability, and materiality—we combine administrative data on the universe of beneficiaries with the complete records of the 2017 Population and Housing Census. Merging these datasets at the localidade level, we provide a highly granular view of programme coverage rates and payment delivery regularity.

Keywords: Social pensions; Targeting; Mozambique (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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