Review of African household survey data on social safety-nets and the role of education, remittances and migration

Type Conference Paper - European Report on Development Conference on
Title Review of African household survey data on social safety-nets and the role of education, remittances and migration
Author(s)
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2010
City Dakar
Country/State Senegal
URL http://erd.eui.eu/media/BackgroundPapers/Nyarko-Gyimah Brempong Survey.pdf
Abstract
The question of the social protection of the poor and social safety-nets in Africa has recently received attention from the European Union, United Nations agencies, as well as in many academic papers and conferences. We provide a review of African Household Survey Data on Social Safety-Nets, looking for those which are relevant for the study of the role of Education, Remittances and Migration on Social Safety-Nets. Some of these data were used for our related paper Nyarko and Gyimah (2010) which studied the role of the three inter-related mechanisms related to protection against shocks: Education, Remittances and Migration. We identify a number of datasets and indicate the ease of collection as well as the relevance to the debates on Social Safety-Nets. We identify the availability of variables of interest for many of the datasets.

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