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

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  • Sara Almeida
  • Hanna Berkel
  • Sam Jones
  • Patricia Justino
  • Telça Massingue

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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.

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  • Sara Almeida & Hanna Berkel & Sam Jones & Patricia Justino & Telça Massingue, 2025. "Social protection for Mozambique's elderly: History, structure, and potential effectiveness," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2025-12, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    • Handle: RePEc:unu:wpaper:wp-2025-12
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    1. Sergio Falange & Luca Pellerano, 2016. "Social protection reform in Mozambique and the new basic social security strategy," One Pager 339, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth.
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