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Les Filets Sociaux au Bénin : Outil de Réduction de la Pauvreté
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Borgarello, Andrea Mededji, Damien |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Abstract | The study on Social safety Nets (FSS) of Benin finds its justification in the belief that every country needs good social safety nets in order to reduce poverty and vulnerability of its citizens. Social safety nets and transfers have an immediate impact on inequality and extreme poverty. They allow households to make better investments for their future and governments to undertake beneficial reforms. Social safety nets are aimed at individuals living in poverty and unable to meet their own basic needs, or at risk of falling into poverty due to exogenous shocks or socioeconomic circumstances. Benin is one of the poorest countries in the world with a level of vulnerability to food insecurity of some concern. Poverty in Benin is a phenomenon both transient and chronic. In Benin, the Nets are almost nonexistent and represent a tiny fraction of the state budget. Budget analysis allows the authors to draw three main conclusions: (i) in a situation of vulnerability and poverty that affects more than a third of the population, it is advisable to opt for more investment in FSS; (ii) there is a strong correlation between social sector spending in general (education, health and social protection) and generalized price of imported food subsidies, as well as those relating to oil and energy products, which leads to assess the possibility of a reallocation of funds between components of FSS; (iii) the trend of expenditure in the FSS, to focus on emergencies (such as higher prices) rather than investments long time, forces the authors to propose to implement a sustainable strategy Nets oriented to a horizon in the long term. As part of a broader strategy of social protection, social safety nets components will have the following objectives: (i) directly support the consumption of chronically poor and vulnerable; (ii) ensuring access of poor and vulnerable people to basic social services to promote investment in human capital; (iii) provide temporary support to poor and vulnerable populations affected by shocks; (iv) ensuring that people in a state of chronic and vulnerable extreme poverty have regular and predictable support, allowing them to break the cycle of intergenerational transmission of poverty. |
| Starting Page | 1 |
| Ending Page | 184 |
| Page Count | 184 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/440661468206690480/pdf/898910NWP0FREN000Box385281B00OUO090.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
