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

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  • Katrin Gasior
  • Iva V. Tasseva
  • Gemma Wright

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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.

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  • Katrin Gasior & Iva V. Tasseva & Gemma Wright, 2022. "The effectiveness of social protection in five African countries through normal times and times of crisis," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2022-174, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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    Income; Poverty and consumption; Social protection; Benefits; Automatic stabilizers; Crisis;
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