Government social protection programme spending and household welfare in Lesotho
Lesotho has notably high levels of poverty and inequality despite a high level of government spending on social protection programmes. We assess the performance of this spending in reducing consumption poverty and inequality, applying benefit incidence and microsimulation methods to 2017/2018 househ...
Gespeichert in:
| Veröffentlicht in: | The South African Journal of economics 2023-09, Vol.91 (3), p.375-393 |
|---|---|
| Hauptverfasser: | , , |
| Format: | Artikel |
| Sprache: | eng |
| Schlagworte: | |
| Online-Zugang: | Volltext bestellen |
| Tags: |
Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
|
| container_end_page | 393 |
|---|---|
| container_issue | 3 |
| container_start_page | 375 |
| container_title | The South African Journal of economics |
| container_volume | 91 |
| creator | Boko, Joachim Raju, Dhushyanth Younger, Stephen D. |
| description | Lesotho has notably high levels of poverty and inequality despite a high level of government spending on social protection programmes. We assess the performance of this spending in reducing consumption poverty and inequality, applying benefit incidence and microsimulation methods to 2017/2018 household survey data. We investigate the distributional effects of actual spending as well as those of a hypothetical alternative in which the spending is targeted through a proxy means test (PMT) formula used by the government for some programmes. We find that government spending on social protection programmes in Lesotho substantially reduces poverty and inequality. For most programmes, the hypothetical alternative of targeting spending to poorer households through the government's PMT formula would have no better distributional effects than current programme spending. The exception is postsecondary education bursaries, which are costly and regressive. Retaining bursaries only for poorer students, and reallocating the outlay this saves to a transfer targeted to poorer households through the government's PMT formula, could reduce poverty and inequality significantly. |
| doi_str_mv | 10.1111/saje.12341 |
| format | Article |
| fullrecord | <record><control><sourceid>proquest_VO9</sourceid><recordid>TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2861510333</recordid><sourceformat>XML</sourceformat><sourcesystem>PC</sourcesystem><sourcerecordid>2861510333</sourcerecordid><originalsourceid>FETCH-LOGICAL-c3959-afea5a441dcf3265062b7d901d87518be0e20ab9e8146aa2a3c5600d0da80013</originalsourceid><addsrcrecordid>eNp9kE9LAzEQxYMoWKsXP0HAm7A1fzZpcixFq1JQsPeQbmbbbbdJTbaWfnu33YI35zIz8Jt5j4fQPSUD2tZTsisYUMZzeoF6VFGeSa3YJeoRwlXGmCLX6CalVbsKwvIe-pyEH4h-A77BKRSVrfE2hgaKpgr-OC6i3WwApy14V_kFtt7hZdglWIba4T3UpY2AK4-nkEKzDLfoqrR1grtz76PZy_Ns_JpNPyZv49E0K7gWOrMlWGHznLqi5EwKItl86DShTg0FVXMgwIida1A0l9YyywshCXHEWUUI5X300L1tLX7vIDVmFXbRt4qGKUkFJbytPnrsqCKGlCKUZhurjY0HQ4k5BmaOgZlTYC2MOxiK4Kv0hyophjIX7Pgv75B9iLWbW782oQ1m7cO-BreACNuQqiacBLSShmstdXtGz2dVDYd_PJiv0ftz5-YXxGOLHw</addsrcrecordid><sourcetype>Aggregation Database</sourcetype><iscdi>true</iscdi><recordtype>article</recordtype><pqid>2861510333</pqid></control><display><type>article</type><title>Government social protection programme spending and household welfare in Lesotho</title><source>Open Knowledge Repository</source><creator>Boko, Joachim ; Raju, Dhushyanth ; Younger, Stephen D.</creator><creatorcontrib>Boko, Joachim ; Raju, Dhushyanth ; Younger, Stephen D.</creatorcontrib><description>Lesotho has notably high levels of poverty and inequality despite a high level of government spending on social protection programmes. We assess the performance of this spending in reducing consumption poverty and inequality, applying benefit incidence and microsimulation methods to 2017/2018 household survey data. We investigate the distributional effects of actual spending as well as those of a hypothetical alternative in which the spending is targeted through a proxy means test (PMT) formula used by the government for some programmes. We find that government spending on social protection programmes in Lesotho substantially reduces poverty and inequality. For most programmes, the hypothetical alternative of targeting spending to poorer households through the government's PMT formula would have no better distributional effects than current programme spending. The exception is postsecondary education bursaries, which are costly and regressive. Retaining bursaries only for poorer students, and reallocating the outlay this saves to a transfer targeted to poorer households through the government's PMT formula, could reduce poverty and inequality significantly.</description><identifier>ISSN: 0038-2280</identifier><identifier>EISSN: 1813-6982</identifier><identifier>DOI: 10.1111/saje.12341</identifier><language>eng</language><publisher>Johannesburg: John Wiley and Sons</publisher><subject>COVERAGE ; Economic analysis ; EFFECTIVENESS ; Government spending ; Higher education ; Households ; INCIDENCE ; Inequality ; LESOTHO ; PENSIONS ; Poverty ; SAFETY NETS ; SIMULATIONS ; SOCIAL ASSISTANCE ; Social programs ; SOCIAL PROTECTION ; Welfare</subject><ispartof>The South African Journal of economics, 2023-09, Vol.91 (3), p.375-393</ispartof><rights>2023 The World Bank. South African Journal of Economics © 2023 Economic Society of South Africa.</rights><rights>Wiley Terms and Conditions https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Authors/licensing/self-archiving.html World Bank</rights><rights>2023 Economic Society of South Africa</rights><lds50>peer_reviewed</lds50><woscitedreferencessubscribed>false</woscitedreferencessubscribed><cites>FETCH-LOGICAL-c3959-afea5a441dcf3265062b7d901d87518be0e20ab9e8146aa2a3c5600d0da80013</cites><orcidid>0000-0001-8726-3986</orcidid></display><links><openurl>$$Topenurl_article</openurl><openurlfulltext>$$Topenurlfull_article</openurlfulltext><thumbnail>$$Tsyndetics_thumb_exl</thumbnail><linktopdf>$$Uhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111%2Fsaje.12341$$EPDF$$P50$$Gwiley$$H</linktopdf><linktohtml>$$Uhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111%2Fsaje.12341$$EHTML$$P50$$Gwiley$$H</linktohtml><link.rule.ids>314,780,784,1417,18982,27866,27924,27925,45574,45575</link.rule.ids><linktorsrc>$$Uhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/39969$$EView_record_in_World_Bank$$FView_record_in_$$GWorld_Bank</linktorsrc></links><search><creatorcontrib>Boko, Joachim</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Raju, Dhushyanth</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Younger, Stephen D.</creatorcontrib><title>Government social protection programme spending and household welfare in Lesotho</title><title>The South African Journal of economics</title><description>Lesotho has notably high levels of poverty and inequality despite a high level of government spending on social protection programmes. We assess the performance of this spending in reducing consumption poverty and inequality, applying benefit incidence and microsimulation methods to 2017/2018 household survey data. We investigate the distributional effects of actual spending as well as those of a hypothetical alternative in which the spending is targeted through a proxy means test (PMT) formula used by the government for some programmes. We find that government spending on social protection programmes in Lesotho substantially reduces poverty and inequality. For most programmes, the hypothetical alternative of targeting spending to poorer households through the government's PMT formula would have no better distributional effects than current programme spending. The exception is postsecondary education bursaries, which are costly and regressive. Retaining bursaries only for poorer students, and reallocating the outlay this saves to a transfer targeted to poorer households through the government's PMT formula, could reduce poverty and inequality significantly.</description><subject>COVERAGE</subject><subject>Economic analysis</subject><subject>EFFECTIVENESS</subject><subject>Government spending</subject><subject>Higher education</subject><subject>Households</subject><subject>INCIDENCE</subject><subject>Inequality</subject><subject>LESOTHO</subject><subject>PENSIONS</subject><subject>Poverty</subject><subject>SAFETY NETS</subject><subject>SIMULATIONS</subject><subject>SOCIAL ASSISTANCE</subject><subject>Social programs</subject><subject>SOCIAL PROTECTION</subject><subject>Welfare</subject><issn>0038-2280</issn><issn>1813-6982</issn><fulltext>true</fulltext><rsrctype>article</rsrctype><creationdate>2023</creationdate><recordtype>article</recordtype><sourceid>VO9</sourceid><sourceid>7TQ</sourceid><recordid>eNp9kE9LAzEQxYMoWKsXP0HAm7A1fzZpcixFq1JQsPeQbmbbbbdJTbaWfnu33YI35zIz8Jt5j4fQPSUD2tZTsisYUMZzeoF6VFGeSa3YJeoRwlXGmCLX6CalVbsKwvIe-pyEH4h-A77BKRSVrfE2hgaKpgr-OC6i3WwApy14V_kFtt7hZdglWIba4T3UpY2AK4-nkEKzDLfoqrR1grtz76PZy_Ns_JpNPyZv49E0K7gWOrMlWGHznLqi5EwKItl86DShTg0FVXMgwIida1A0l9YyywshCXHEWUUI5X300L1tLX7vIDVmFXbRt4qGKUkFJbytPnrsqCKGlCKUZhurjY0HQ4k5BmaOgZlTYC2MOxiK4Kv0hyophjIX7Pgv75B9iLWbW782oQ1m7cO-BreACNuQqiacBLSShmstdXtGz2dVDYd_PJiv0ftz5-YXxGOLHw</recordid><startdate>202309</startdate><enddate>202309</enddate><creator>Boko, Joachim</creator><creator>Raju, Dhushyanth</creator><creator>Younger, Stephen D.</creator><general>John Wiley and Sons</general><general>Wiley Subscription Services, Inc</general><scope>VO9</scope><scope>OQ6</scope><scope>AAYXX</scope><scope>CITATION</scope><scope>7TQ</scope><scope>8BJ</scope><scope>DHY</scope><scope>DON</scope><scope>FQK</scope><scope>JBE</scope><orcidid>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8726-3986</orcidid></search><sort><creationdate>202309</creationdate><title>Government social protection programme spending and household welfare in Lesotho</title><author>Boko, Joachim ; Raju, Dhushyanth ; Younger, Stephen D.</author></sort><facets><frbrtype>5</frbrtype><frbrgroupid>cdi_FETCH-LOGICAL-c3959-afea5a441dcf3265062b7d901d87518be0e20ab9e8146aa2a3c5600d0da80013</frbrgroupid><rsrctype>articles</rsrctype><prefilter>articles</prefilter><language>eng</language><creationdate>2023</creationdate><topic>COVERAGE</topic><topic>Economic analysis</topic><topic>EFFECTIVENESS</topic><topic>Government spending</topic><topic>Higher education</topic><topic>Households</topic><topic>INCIDENCE</topic><topic>Inequality</topic><topic>LESOTHO</topic><topic>PENSIONS</topic><topic>Poverty</topic><topic>SAFETY NETS</topic><topic>SIMULATIONS</topic><topic>SOCIAL ASSISTANCE</topic><topic>Social programs</topic><topic>SOCIAL PROTECTION</topic><topic>Welfare</topic><toplevel>peer_reviewed</toplevel><toplevel>online_resources</toplevel><creatorcontrib>Boko, Joachim</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Raju, Dhushyanth</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Younger, Stephen D.</creatorcontrib><collection>Open Knowledge Repository</collection><collection>ECONIS</collection><collection>CrossRef</collection><collection>PAIS Index</collection><collection>International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)</collection><collection>PAIS International</collection><collection>PAIS International (Ovid)</collection><collection>International Bibliography of the Social Sciences</collection><collection>International Bibliography of the Social Sciences</collection><jtitle>The South African Journal of economics</jtitle></facets><delivery><delcategory>Remote Search Resource</delcategory><fulltext>fulltext_linktorsrc</fulltext></delivery><addata><au>Boko, Joachim</au><au>Raju, Dhushyanth</au><au>Younger, Stephen D.</au><format>journal</format><genre>article</genre><ristype>JOUR</ristype><atitle>Government social protection programme spending and household welfare in Lesotho</atitle><jtitle>The South African Journal of economics</jtitle><date>2023-09</date><risdate>2023</risdate><volume>91</volume><issue>3</issue><spage>375</spage><epage>393</epage><pages>375-393</pages><issn>0038-2280</issn><eissn>1813-6982</eissn><abstract>Lesotho has notably high levels of poverty and inequality despite a high level of government spending on social protection programmes. We assess the performance of this spending in reducing consumption poverty and inequality, applying benefit incidence and microsimulation methods to 2017/2018 household survey data. We investigate the distributional effects of actual spending as well as those of a hypothetical alternative in which the spending is targeted through a proxy means test (PMT) formula used by the government for some programmes. We find that government spending on social protection programmes in Lesotho substantially reduces poverty and inequality. For most programmes, the hypothetical alternative of targeting spending to poorer households through the government's PMT formula would have no better distributional effects than current programme spending. The exception is postsecondary education bursaries, which are costly and regressive. Retaining bursaries only for poorer students, and reallocating the outlay this saves to a transfer targeted to poorer households through the government's PMT formula, could reduce poverty and inequality significantly.</abstract><cop>Johannesburg</cop><pub>John Wiley and Sons</pub><doi>10.1111/saje.12341</doi><tpages>19</tpages><orcidid>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8726-3986</orcidid></addata></record> |
| fulltext | fulltext_linktorsrc |
| identifier | ISSN: 0038-2280 |
| ispartof | The South African Journal of economics, 2023-09, Vol.91 (3), p.375-393 |
| issn | 0038-2280 1813-6982 |
| language | eng |
| recordid | cdi_proquest_journals_2861510333 |
| source | Open Knowledge Repository |
| subjects | COVERAGE Economic analysis EFFECTIVENESS Government spending Higher education Households INCIDENCE Inequality LESOTHO PENSIONS Poverty SAFETY NETS SIMULATIONS SOCIAL ASSISTANCE Social programs SOCIAL PROTECTION Welfare |
| title | Government social protection programme spending and household welfare in Lesotho |
| url | https://sfx.bib-bvb.de/sfx_tum?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&ctx_tim=2024-12-19T17%3A07%3A15IST&url_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_ctx_fmt=infofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rfr_id=info:sid/primo.exlibrisgroup.com:primo3-Article-proquest_VO9&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Government%20social%20protection%20programme%20spending%20and%20household%20welfare%20in%20Lesotho&rft.jtitle=The%20South%20African%20Journal%20of%20economics&rft.au=Boko,%20Joachim&rft.date=2023-09&rft.volume=91&rft.issue=3&rft.spage=375&rft.epage=393&rft.pages=375-393&rft.issn=0038-2280&rft.eissn=1813-6982&rft_id=info:doi/10.1111/saje.12341&rft_dat=%3Cproquest_VO9%3E2861510333%3C/proquest_VO9%3E%3Curl%3E%3C/url%3E&disable_directlink=true&sfx.directlink=off&sfx.report_link=0&rft_id=info:oai/&rft_pqid=2861510333&rft_id=info:pmid/&rfr_iscdi=true |