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Equity in MENA and Latin America from a comparison perspective – the
role of social protectionFabio Veras Soares
International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth – IPC-IG
(www.ipc-undp.org)
Inequities in LAC and MENA Latin American countries are well known for their high level of inequalities.
Recent reforms of the social protection system have tried to curb poverty as wellas to address inequities of the social protection system and to facilitate access to social services.
MENA countries have much lower inequality but they are facing challenges withthe current design of their social protection programmes.
Recent reforms (or talk of) suggest that (some) countries in the MENA regionwant to learn more from LAC experience and adapt certain reforms to theircontext.
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Inequities in LAC and MENA ECLAC classifies countries in Latin America into three groups as per their
investments social policies (health and education) and in social protection:
Group I: higher level of per capita investment in social protection and social policies, high investment in social security and assistance, higher investment in health (similar as education) – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Costa Rica and Panama.
Group II: medium level of per capita investment in social protection and social policies, medium level of investment in social security and assistance, lowinvestment in healh (half of level in education): Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela
Group III: low level of per capita investment in social protection and social policy, low investement in social security and assistance, low investment in healt (half of the level of education): Bolivia, Equador, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru and Dominican Republic
Inequities in LAC and MENA MENA countries spend relatively more with social protection (or SSN) than LAC
countries…
However these expenditures tend to be less progressive due to their focus on fuel and food subsidies.
Excluding fuel and food subsidies there are somewhat similar level of investment, but with very different results….
Social security: sustainability issue, pay as you go system for formal sectorworkers and public servants, high reposition rates, almost no coverage of informal sector, and scattered schemes.
Social assistance: focus on food subsidies, categorical and geographical targetingand undercoverage of the poor and high levels of leakage.
World Bank (2014): http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/05/19487568/state-social-safety-nets-2014
Spending on SSN and Fuel Subsidies
Source: IMF 2011, Elaboration: Markus Loewe (2014)
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16
Egypt
Algeria
Yemen
Jordan
Tunisia
Bahrain
Moroco
Syria
Oman
Mauritania
Pension schemes
Health system
Cash for work
Social assistance
Child allowances
Food subsidies
Energy subsidies
Inequities in LAC and MENA Two key issues with SSN programmes: progressiveness of
the transfers and low coverage.
Exceptions: The Sadat Pension in Egypt, the Social Welfare Fund (SWF), PNAFN in Tunisia, Tayssirprogramme in Morocco… but some still suffer of problems of coverage: quotas, unclear targeting and categorical focus on the unable to work undermine coverage of poor and vulnerable children.
Inequities in LAC and MENA In comparison to other world regions, there is clear
underperformance in the Arab region social assistance and SSN programmes in terms of beneficiary incidence.
Exceptions: The Sadat Pension in Egypt, the Social Welfare Fund (SWF), PNAFN in Tunisia, Tayssirprogramme in Morocco… but some suffer still of problems of coverage: quotas, unclear targeting and categorical focus on the unable to work undermine coverage of poor and vulnerable children.
Inequities in LAC and MENA Example from the Yemen targeting assessment of the Social Welfare based on
the NSPMS data (based on Figures on the next slides).
Figure NSPMS (1) shows that programme age-pyramid resembles that of the target population.
However, Figure NSPMS (2) shows that the age-pyramid of the extreme poor and of the poor does differ from those of categories of the SWF shown in NSPMS (1) – children are more likely to be among the poor and extreme poor.
The adoption of the a Proxy Means Test (PMT) improved the SWF targeting of the inclusion of more households with children among beneficiaries. In Figure NSPMS (3), new SWF beneficiaries – who were subjected to the PMT – had more families with children. But NSPMS (3) age pyramid still differs a lot form age pyramid of the poor and extreme poor NSPMS (2).
It is necessary to expand social protection programmes for children in Yemen to improve their targeting.
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Yemen NSMPS (1): Age pyramid for SWF beneficiaries and SWF categories
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SWF categoriesSource: NSPMS Final report (http://www.ipc-undp.org/pub/html/TP08_Yemen_National_Social_Protection_Monitoring_Survey_2012_2013/#6)
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Yemen NSMPS (2): Age pyramid for the extreme poor and the poor
Extreme Poor Poor
(10) (8) (6) (4) (2) 0 2 4 6 8 10
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Female Male
(10) (8) (6) (4) (2) 0 2 4 6 8 10
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Female Male
Source: NSPMS Final report (http://www.ipc-undp.org/pub/html/TP08_Yemen_National_Social_Protection_Monitoring_Survey_2012_2013/#6)
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Yemen NSPMS (3): Age pyramids – Old and New SWF beneficiary
Old SWF beneficiary New SWF beneficiary
(10) (8) (6) (4) (2) 0 2 4 6 8 10
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Female Male
(10) (8) (6) (4) (2) 0 2 4 6 8 10
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Source: NSPMS Final report (http://www.ipc-undp.org/pub/html/TP08_Yemen_National_Social_Protection_Monitoring_Survey_2012_2013/#6)
Inequities in LAC and MENA
The key point of the experience of Latin American has been the extension of different social protection mechanisms in a coordinated way.
Expansion of the Social Protection programmes to coverfamilies with children.
Single registries or integrated databases have had a greatimpact on the improvement of the effectiviness of thesepolicies
MIS systems and regular monitoring and evaluation have provided the evidence to support these policies