South Africa - Social Assistance Programs and Systems Review
Despite being an upper middle-income country, South Africa’s high inequality and the long-lasting legacies of apartheid mean that the country is faced with numerous development challenges, many of which are characteristic of countries with much low...
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okr-10986-377132022-07-16T05:10:33Z South Africa - Social Assistance Programs and Systems Review World Bank SOCIAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS DISABILITY COVID-19 POVERTY FOOD SECURITY LABOUR MARKET Despite being an upper middle-income country, South Africa’s high inequality and the long-lasting legacies of apartheid mean that the country is faced with numerous development challenges, many of which are characteristic of countries with much lower incomes. Poverty and inequality remain two of the country’s most pressing concerns. Alongside extreme inequalities, South Africa struggles with high unemployment, low labour market participation rates, and widespread poverty, including pockets of deep deprivation. In this context, social assistance is a critical policy response on the part of government and represents one of the important successes of the post-apartheid era. This report provides a review of the South African social assistance system and consists of three broad thrusts. First, the review provides a sense of the operation of the social assistance system, the types of benefits it provides through its key programmes, and the tools and administrative systems that support its functioning. Second, it reviews the performance of the social assistance system in terms of coverage, targeting, benefit incidence, adequacy, cost-effectiveness, and outcomes. Third, it assesses the extent to which the system is aligned and equipped to address the so-called “triple challenge” of poverty, inequality, and unemployment as shown by data, and reviews its limitations in the design, delivery systems, and institutional coordination at different administrative levels. The core focus of this paper is on social assistance and, specifically, the system of social grants in South Africa. 2022-07-15T20:40:30Z 2022-07-15T20:40:30Z 2021 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099845107152232177/P17217500b279506c0963d0954cdf9a47da http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37713 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC : World Bank Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Other Social Protection Study Africa South Africa |
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Despite being an upper middle-income
country, South Africa’s high inequality and the long-lasting
legacies of apartheid mean that the country is faced with
numerous development challenges, many of which are
characteristic of countries with much lower incomes. Poverty
and inequality remain two of the country’s most pressing
concerns. Alongside extreme inequalities, South Africa
struggles with high unemployment, low labour market
participation rates, and widespread poverty, including
pockets of deep deprivation. In this context, social
assistance is a critical policy response on the part of
government and represents one of the important successes of
the post-apartheid era. This report provides a review of the
South African social assistance system and consists of three
broad thrusts. First, the review provides a sense of the
operation of the social assistance system, the types of
benefits it provides through its key programmes, and the
tools and administrative systems that support its
functioning. Second, it reviews the performance of the
social assistance system in terms of coverage, targeting,
benefit incidence, adequacy, cost-effectiveness, and
outcomes. Third, it assesses the extent to which the system
is aligned and equipped to address the so-called “triple
challenge” of poverty, inequality, and unemployment as shown
by data, and reviews its limitations in the design, delivery
systems, and institutional coordination at different
administrative levels. The core focus of this paper is on
social assistance and, specifically, the system of social
grants in South Africa. |
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