Publication: Botswana Social Protection
Date
2013-12
ISSN
Published
2013-12
Author(s)
Tesliuc, Cornelia
Silverio Marques, Jose
Mookodi, Lillian
Braithwaite, Jeanine
Sharma, Siddarth
Ntseane, Dolly
Abstract
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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Citation
“Tesliuc, Cornelia; Silverio Marques, Jose; Mookodi, Lillian; Braithwaite, Jeanine; Sharma, Siddarth; Ntseane, Dolly. 2013. Botswana Social Protection. Social protection and labor discussion paper;no. 1405. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18968 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”