Poverty and the role of social protection systems in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic
Key messages The pandemic increased poverty in Africa by less than expected, approximately 1.5-1.7 percentage points in 2020. Countries affected by Fragility, Conflict, and Violence (FCV) experienced the greatest increases in poverty. An emerging literature establishes that social protection p...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
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| author | Abay, Kibrom A. Yonzan, Nishant Kurdi, Sikandra Tafere, Kibrom |
| author_browse | Abay, Kibrom A. Kurdi, Sikandra Tafere, Kibrom Yonzan, Nishant |
| author_facet | Abay, Kibrom A. Yonzan, Nishant Kurdi, Sikandra Tafere, Kibrom |
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The pandemic increased poverty in Africa by less than expected, approximately 1.5-1.7 percentage points in 2020.
Countries affected by Fragility, Conflict, and Violence (FCV) experienced the greatest increases in poverty.
An emerging literature establishes that social protection programs in Africa during the pandemic had positive impacts and was generally pro-poor, suggesting a key cushion-ing role played by the expansion of social protection on trends in poverty.
However, delivering shock-responsive social protection in Africa continues to face im-portant challenges related to targeting, coverage, timeliness, and financing.
Early targeting analyses for some countries during the pandemic show that targeting was broadly progressive in some countries and regressive in some other countries. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1266482025-11-06T04:45:02Z Poverty and the role of social protection systems in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic Abay, Kibrom A. Yonzan, Nishant Kurdi, Sikandra Tafere, Kibrom conflict covid-19 data health hazards living standards social protection pandemics poverty risk factors surveying data analysis data collection economics fragility, conflict, and violence (fcv) conflicts risk Key messages The pandemic increased poverty in Africa by less than expected, approximately 1.5-1.7 percentage points in 2020. Countries affected by Fragility, Conflict, and Violence (FCV) experienced the greatest increases in poverty. An emerging literature establishes that social protection programs in Africa during the pandemic had positive impacts and was generally pro-poor, suggesting a key cushion-ing role played by the expansion of social protection on trends in poverty. However, delivering shock-responsive social protection in Africa continues to face im-portant challenges related to targeting, coverage, timeliness, and financing. Early targeting analyses for some countries during the pandemic show that targeting was broadly progressive in some countries and regressive in some other countries. 2022-12-19 2023-01-06T09:21:06Z 2023-01-06T09:21:06Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/126648 en https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136411 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Abay, Kibrom A.; Yonzan, Nishant; Kurdi, Sikandra; and Tafere, Kibrom. 2022. Poverty and the role of social protection systems in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic. MENA Policy Note 23. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/126648 |
| spellingShingle | conflict covid-19 data health hazards living standards social protection pandemics poverty risk factors surveying data analysis data collection economics fragility, conflict, and violence (fcv) conflicts risk Abay, Kibrom A. Yonzan, Nishant Kurdi, Sikandra Tafere, Kibrom Poverty and the role of social protection systems in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic |
| title | Poverty and the role of social protection systems in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_full | Poverty and the role of social protection systems in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_fullStr | Poverty and the role of social protection systems in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_full_unstemmed | Poverty and the role of social protection systems in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_short | Poverty and the role of social protection systems in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_sort | poverty and the role of social protection systems in africa during the covid 19 pandemic |
| topic | conflict covid-19 data health hazards living standards social protection pandemics poverty risk factors surveying data analysis data collection economics fragility, conflict, and violence (fcv) conflicts risk |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/126648 |
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