Social Security as a Human Right

Riedel, Eibe

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-31469-1

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“…Expansion of social protection and contributory schemes in sub-Saharan Africa Social protection in most countries of East, West, and Central sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been extended during the 2000s though various set ups, having had a stronger tendency to promote programmes providing a mix of poverty-based transfers (Niño-Zarazua et al 2012). Social security systems have been experiencing a slow but visible change, moving the shift in focus from workers to citizens, visible by the trend over recent decades to extend income protection to the elderly, particularly the poor and uncovered (Riedel 2007;ISSA 2019). Contributory schemes, however, are still the wider norm.…”

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Welfare and the depth of informality: Evidence from five African countries

Egger¹,

Poggi²,

Rufrancos³

2021

WIDER Working Paper

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This study explores the relationship between household poverty and depth of informality by proposing a new measure of informality at the household level. It is defined as the share of activities (hours worked or income earned) without social insurance for wage workers in the household. We apply cross-sectional regressions to five urban sub-Saharan African countries, showing that a household head informality dummy obscures a non-linear relationship between the depth of household informality and welfare outcomes. In some countries, a small share of income from formal jobs is associated with at least the same welfare as a fully formal portfolio. By assessing transitions between household portfolios with panel data for urban Nigeria, we also show that most welfare differences are explained by selection and that movements in and out of formality cannot sufficiently change welfare trajectories. The results call for better inclusion of informal profiles to social insurance programmes.

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