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Assessing the impact of social grants on inequality: A South African case study
Schiel, Reinhard; Leibbrandt, Murray; Lam, David - 2014
The democratic government in South Africa has developed a system of social grants to combat the high levels of poverty and inequality inherited from the apartheid regime. With the help of modest economic growth and an associated increase in per capita household income, the introduction and...
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Poverty, changing political regimes, and social cash transfers in Zimbabwe, 1980 - 2016
Chinyoka, Isaac - 2017
Since 2000, Zimbabwe has been under some pressure to provide more fully for its children. It is not clear whether child poverty has worsened, although AIDS, drought, and economic mismanagement have all compromised poverty reduction. In any case, child poverty has come under increased scrutiny,...
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Welfare and redistributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2019
labour markets. Moreover, the paper highlights the knowledge gaps with regard to the longer-term and gender-specific welfare … programmes can generate in the labour and insurance markets. …
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The Negotiated Politics of Social Protection in Sub-Saharan Africa
Hickey, Sam - 2018
Social assistance programmes proliferated and expanded across much of the global South from the mid-1990s. Within Africa there has been enormous variation in this trend: some governments expanded coverage dramatically while others resisted this. The existing literature on social assistance, or...
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Regime type, inequality, and redistributive transfers in developing countries
Dodlova, Marina; Giolbas, Anna - 2017
The debate on whether democracy and inequality increase the level of redistribution is ongoing. We construct a model that predicts higher probability of redistribution in democracies than autocracies through social transfers. Higher inequality leads to more redistribution in democracies but not...
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Clientelism, public goods provision, and governance
Lo Bue, Maria C.; Sen, Kunal; Lindberg, Staffan I. - 2021
It is widely believed that clientelism-the giving of material goods in return for electoral support-is associated with poorer development outcomes. However, systematic cross-country evidence on the deleterious effects of clientelism on development outcomes is lacking. In this paper we examine...
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Assessing pension-related tax expenditures in South Africa: Evidence from the 2016 retirement reform
Redonda, Agustin; Axelson, Christopher - 2021
order to incentivize pension savings and increase the fairness of the retirement system. Using administrative tax micro … of contributions). The reform was not effective at mitigating the regressive impact of the retirement system because the … number of individuals contributing to retirement funds increased relatively more for top earners, and it has also exacerbated …
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Government intervention need for social security improvement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A theoretical analysis using the principal-agent model
Luzolo, Didier Mumpambala - 2016
African populations need better support through social protection mechanisms. Among those who need social security are millions of older people who, having worked all their lives in the formal sector, are in precarious situations with lower benefits. This study aims to appreciate theoretically,...
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Exploring options for a universal old age pension in Tanzania Mainland
Khalfan, Twahir; Kisanga, Elineema; Leyaro, Vincent; … - 2020
The provision of a universal old age pension is increasingly recognized as an important instrument for strengthening and extending social protection. A growing number of emerging economies, including East African countries, are introducing universal old age pensions to guarantee at least a basic...
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Social transfer programmes and school enrolment in Malawi: A micro-simulation
Nanivazo, Malokele - 2013
This paper investigates the impact of social transfer programmes on school enrolment and child labour in Malawi …
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