Social Protection in Ethiopia: Making the Case for a More Comprehensive and Equitable Intervention in the Digital Economy

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dc.contributor.authorBerhane, Zerihun
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-21T09:10:55Z
dc.date.available2022-12-21T09:10:55Z
dc.date.issued2020-12
dc.departmentSouthern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS)
dc.description.abstractEthiopia implements a range of contributory and non-contributory social protection programmes that jointly cover about 21% of the population. Using document review and secondary data, this paper analyses coverage, adequacy, and options for the vertical and horizontal expansion of social protection in Ethiopia, including cost estimates. It argues that the major challenges for the expansion of social protection in the country are political and financial. Politically, the government’s use of social protection as an instrument to promoting political stability made social protection subscribe to productive objectives and caused it to be tied to public works and conditional on labour contribution. Moreover, food security strategy and institutions dominated social protection for decades, making it essentially a rural programme rather than being all-inclusive. Financially, the high cost of implementing large-scale programmes made donor financing a constant feature of social protection in Ethiopia, having implications for sustainability of programmes. This paper provides a cost estimate scenario analysis of three social protection options: social pensions, child benefits, and disability grants. The cost estimate results indicate that implementing these programmes would be fairly affordable, particularly if accompanied by domestic resource mobilization, and suggests restructuring social protection institutions to make them more inclusive.
dc.description.librarianES2022
dc.description.sponsorshipSouthern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS)
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversity of the Witwatersrand
dc.facultyFaculty of Commerce, Law and Management
dc.identifier.citationBerhane, Z. 2020. Social protection in Ethiopia: making the case for a more comprehensive and equitable intervention in the digital economy. Future of Work(ers) SCIS Working Paper Number 6. Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, Wits University.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/33904
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSouthern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS)
dc.publisherUniversity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSCIS Working Paper; 6
dc.rights©2020 Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS)
dc.schoolSouthern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS)
dc.subjectFuture of workers
dc.subjectSocial protection in Ethiopia
dc.subjectNon-contributory social protection programmes
dc.subjectFood security strategy
dc.subjectSocial pensions
dc.subjectChild benefits
dc.subjectDisability grants
dc.subjectDigital Economy
dc.titleSocial Protection in Ethiopia: Making the Case for a More Comprehensive and Equitable Intervention in the Digital Economy
dc.typeWorking Paper
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