Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/211249 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2019/19
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This paper assesses the effects on poverty and inequality of the alternative targeting approaches that Zambia's Social Cash Transfer programme could take as its expansion continues during the period of the country's Seventh National Development Plan (2017-21). It further assesses the domestic financing needs associated with alternative approaches. The Zambian government introduced support based on giving actual cash through social cash transfers aimed at reducing poverty and vulnerability in a sustainable and cost-effective way. Using data from the 2015 Living Conditions Monitoring Survey, we simulate static effects of the alternative social cash transfer design options and their total cost using MicroZAMOD. In the absence of social cash transfers, nationwide extreme poverty would be 1.6 percentage points higher than otherwise. The results show that the combination of alternative options, particularly the inclusion of children and increased transfer financed from increased domestic taxes levels, yields higher impacts on poverty reduction.
Subjects: 
inequality
microsimulation
MicroZAMOD
poverty reduction
social protection
unconditional social cash transfer
Zambia
JEL: 
C35
I31
I38
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9256-653-1
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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