Botswana Social Protection

Tesliuc, Cornelia; Silverio Marques, Jose; Mookodi, Lillian; Braithwaite, Jeanine; Sharma, Siddarth; Ntseane, Dolly

Botswana Social Protection

2013

The report lays out options to use social safety nets to meet the goal set by the Government of Botswana to eradicate extreme poverty by 2016 and in a budget neutral way. Introducing a Family Support Grant is argued to be a more efficient way to address absolute poverty by offering a family benefit to all the families in absolute poverty. Reforms in the Ipelegeng public works program would allow addressing existing shortcomings associated with coverage, targeting, generosity, and wrong labor incentives. The combination of the above will allow for a better weaving of the Social Safety Nets to ensure that the goal of lifting 16% of population from absolute poverty by 2016 is achieved.

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Publisher

World Bank, Washington, DC

Other Subjects

Contributory pension; Poor; Food items; Number of children; Protection systems; Vulnerable people; Nutrition program; Policy analysis; Development policy; Human capital development; Service delivery; Conditional cash; Food necessities; Extended family; Skills training; Purchasing power; National development; Household composition; Poor individuals; Rural; Primary school; Works program; Vulnerable groups; Service providers; School feeding programs; Poverty line; Protection policies; Height for age; Old age pension; Covariate shocks; Poverty map; Child poverty; Incidence of poverty; Horizontal equity; Government response; Vulnerable children; Vulnerable group; Infrastructure development; Food transfers; Program coverage; Poor adults; Nutritional supplementation; Future earnings; Malnourished children; Poverty analysis; Poverty incidence; Poor children; Insurance mechanisms; Right to education; Health centres; Work requirements; Beneficiaries; Social risk; Means test; Secondary school; Youth development; Lack of skills; Financial crises; Beneficiary; Mutual aid; Extended families; Height-for-age; Labor market programs; Social safety net; Health system; Labor market; Family support; Poor families; Coping strategies; Old age pensions; Jobless; Needy children; Live births; International poverty line; Social benefits; Natural disaster; Assistance programs; Support networks; Skills development; Skill development; Health care services; Inequality; Food poverty; Safety net systems; Policy framework; Public works programs; Minimum wage; Poor people; Absolute poverty; Estimates of poverty; Transfer programs; Home affairs; Cash payments; Private pension; Unemployment benefits; Rural households; Economic shocks; Public service; Financial crisis; External shocks; Ssn; Public policy; High inequality; School fees; Female-headed households; Risk-pooling; Support program; Protection system; School materials; Child labor; Safety nets; Tertiary education; Poverty rates; Benefit level; Poverty headcount rate; Cash assistance; Low-income countries; Poverty eradication; Human capital investments; Information system; Skilled workers; Idiosyncratic risks; School enrollments; Vulnerable individuals; Social insurance programs; Remote areas; Unemployment rates; Employment opportunities; Family benefit; Plan of action; Income security; Nutrition interventions; Orphans; Social assistance; Safety net programs; National development plan; Chronic malnutrition; Vulnerable households; Ministry of education; Employment programs; Productive assets; Grant program; Anti-poverty program; Contributory pensions; Support grant; Per capita consumption; Single-parent families; Development planning; Self-insurance; Private capital; Anti-poverty; Chronic poverty; Administrative costs; School children; Lack of education; Cost-effectiveness; Welfare indicators; Eligible beneficiaries; Nutrition programs; Poor households

License

Social protection and labor discussion paper;no. 1405http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/CC BY 3.0 IGO

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Social protection and labor discussion paper;no. 1405

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