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