Child and Orphan Poverty in Swaziland Aug 30, 2013 By Jeanine BraithwaiteIsmael Yacoubou DjmiaRobert Pickmans Child and Orphan Poverty in Swaziland This report quantifies child and orphan poverty in the Kingdom of Swaziland during 2001 and 2010. Poverty is understood as consumption (monetary) poverty and not as multidimensional deprivation. Child and orphan poverty indicators are based on the Swaziland Household Income and Expenditures Survey (SHIES). Additional indicators for teen-aged men and women are calculated from the Multiple Cluster Indicator Survey (MICS). Secondary literature is also addressed. Child poverty and teen-age indicators have not been previously undertaken. Findings about orphan poverty from the SHIES are consistent with previous results from the MICS. The report considers social protection policy in Swaziland and recommends the adoption of a child benefit to alleviate child poverty. Targeting options are explored and a proxy means test (PMT) for child poverty is estimated. Areas for future research, including the potential integration of the SHIES and MICS data are explored. Unicef Report Unicef Report Unicef Report Jeanine Braithwaite Jeanine Braithwaite is a professor of public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Prior to joining the Batten School, she was a senior economist at the World Bank, specializing in social protection policy and poverty analysis. She has also worked at the International Monetary Fund and U.S. Census Bureau, providing technical assistance to the U.S.S.R. and newly-independent former Soviet republics. Read full bio Ismael Yacoubou Djmia Robert Pickmans Related Content Jeanine Braithwaite Learning from Each Other: Social Protection and Labor and the Global South. Research Swaziland: Using Public Transfers to Reduce Extreme Poverty Research World Bank Faculty Spotlight: “I Was Born Questioning” News Batten’s Jeanine Braithwaite has retired after more than a decade of encouraging students to interrogate the status quo. Alum in Action: The Data Beneath the Data News Batten alum Cameron Haddad (MPP ’20) takes a closer look at everything from health care in South Africa to children’s welfare in Tajikistan, with a core maxim in mind: Remember the people on the other side of the numbers.
Jeanine Braithwaite Jeanine Braithwaite is a professor of public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Prior to joining the Batten School, she was a senior economist at the World Bank, specializing in social protection policy and poverty analysis. She has also worked at the International Monetary Fund and U.S. Census Bureau, providing technical assistance to the U.S.S.R. and newly-independent former Soviet republics. Read full bio
Faculty Spotlight: “I Was Born Questioning” News Batten’s Jeanine Braithwaite has retired after more than a decade of encouraging students to interrogate the status quo.
Alum in Action: The Data Beneath the Data News Batten alum Cameron Haddad (MPP ’20) takes a closer look at everything from health care in South Africa to children’s welfare in Tajikistan, with a core maxim in mind: Remember the people on the other side of the numbers.