Social grants, remittances, and food security: Does the source of income matter?

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dc.contributor.authorWaidler, Jennifer
dc.contributor.authorDevereux, Stephen
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-02T10:37:46Z
dc.date.available2021-07-02T10:37:46Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractLarge numbers of South Africans receive social grants (public transfers) or remittances (private transfers), and yet one in four South Africans is food insecure. The purpose of this paper is to address two questions: do social grants and remittances improve food security and nutritional outcomes? If so, do these impacts differ between public and private transfers? Drawing on the National Income Dynamic Survey (NIDS), South Africa’s first nationally representative survey that follows more than 28,000 individuals over time, we found significant and positive impacts of the Older Person’s Grant and of remittances on the dietary diversity index, but not of the Child Support Grant. Moreover, we found no effect on food expenditure or on anthropometry (BMI) by the Older Person’s Grant, or remittances. However, some positive effects were found on children’s BMI from the Child Support Grant. We discuss why we observe different effects from different transfers, as well as giving several reasons why income transfers are failing to close the nutritional deficits in South Africa.en_US
dc.identifier.citationWaidler, J., & Devereux, S. (2019). Social grants, remittances, and food security: does the source of income matter? Food Security, 11(3), 679–702. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-019-00918-xen_US
dc.identifier.issn1876-4525
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/6352
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSpingeren_US
dc.subjectSocial grantsen_US
dc.subjectRemittancesen_US
dc.subjectFood securityen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectSocial protectionen_US
dc.titleSocial grants, remittances, and food security: Does the source of income matter?en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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