Keetie Roelen
Biographic Data
| ID | 178610 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keetie Roelen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keetie |
| FAMILY NAME | Roelen |
| SIGNATURE | ROELEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Development Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7801-3096 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 145 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Poverty and stigma in urban Bangladesh: Conceptual contributions and empirical explorations
Against the backdrop of an increase in urban poverty following the Covid-19 pandemic, this article explores the intersection between poverty and stigma in high-density low-income neighbourhoods in Dhaka and Chattogram, Bangladesh. Its contribution is twofold. First, it introduces the Poverty Stigma Framework as a new and necessary conceptual tool to unpack context-specific moderators of stigma at intrapersonal, interpersonal, and structural level…
Exploring Synergies Between Community Mobilisation and Cash Transfers in Bangladesh
This article presents insights from the Child Labour: Action-Research-Innovation in South and South-Eastern Asia (CLARISSA) social protection cash plus intervention in a low‐income neighbourhood in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Adopting a novel methodology, we use community mobilisers’ monthly narrative reports, so-called ‘micronarratives’, to understand synergies between implementation and outcomes of community mobilisation activities (the ‘plus’) and cash…
Introduction: Social Protection in a Time of Global Uncertainty
Social protection has established itself as a vibrant policy sector across the global South, and as a pillar of international development cooperation. Social protection features in numerous country policies and development agency strategies, as well as in several Sustainable Development Goals. However, the global context today is characterised by a range of emerging and intensifying challenges and uncertainties, including post-Covid-19 pandemic r…
Glossary – Reimagining Social Protection
This is the Glossary for IDS Bulletin 55.2, Reimagining Social Protection
Winners and losers: Class dynamics and social protection in Pakistan
This study responds to the recent call in the literature for the interrogation and understanding of how social protection is accessed and distributed among various groups and classes of society. It explores who stands to win and lose from social protection through the lens of social class using the case study of Pakistan, where the elite class holds significant sway over decision‐making. Using a unique mixed methods approach, this study offers a …
Talking of poverty: From the analytical to the political
Poverty talk has far-reaching effects at personal and society level. Overwhelmingly negative narratives undermine mental health of people in poverty and forces them in a position to cope with, resist and contradict the fallacious stereotypes that are spread about them. Narratives are not shaped in a vacuum, nor are they value neutral. Power is at the heart of poverty discourse, with words carefully curated to create and reinforce societal hierarc…
Chicken or Egg? A Bi-directional Analysis of Social Protection and Social Cohesion in Burundi and Haiti
Urban social assistance: Evidence, challenges and the way forward, with application to Ghana
Pathways to stronger futures? The role of social protection in reducing psychological risk factors for child development in Haiti
Social Protection, Covid-19, and Building Back Better
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought sweeping changes for economies and societies, with the most devastating consequences for individuals and groups with pre-existing vulnerabilities. As attention shifts from addressing urgent humanitarian needs to long-term response, it is time to think about the role of social protection as part of a longer-term solution to living with Covid-19, as well as supporting efforts to build back better. This article cons…
Leaving No One Behind: Multidimensional Child Poverty in Botswana
Child poverty measurement is vital for informing policies and for improving children’s lives. Nevertheless, efforts to measure (child) poverty remain dominated mainly by monetary approaches, and many countries fail to monitor multidimensional child poverty. Using the 2015/2016 Botswana multi-topic household survey, this study developed a child-centred, individual-level and composite measure that offers nationally relevant and context-specific ins…
Child-sensitive graduation: How can programmes break the intergenerational cycle of poverty
The Development Impacts of Covid-19 at Home and Abroad: Politics and Implications of Government Action
Covid-19 in LMICs: The Need to Place Stigma Front and Centre to Its Response
The relevance of institutions and people’s preferences in the PSNP and IN‐SCT programmes in Ethiopia
The effective implementation of social protection interventions is key for achieving positive change. The existing literature mainly focuses on issues related to programme design and impact, rather than the factors that influence the emergence, expansion and provision of these programmes. This article builds on the recent literature that indicates that the quality of institutions and people’s preferences play an important role in the implementati…
Receiving Social Assistance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Negating Shame or Producing Stigma
Despite the centrality of shame and stigma within research on welfare in high-income countries, these issues only exist within the periphery of rapidly expanding practice in and research on social assistance in low- and middle-income countries. This oversight undermines social assistance's potential in breaking the poverty-shame cycle and ignores its role in the (re)production of shame and stigma. This article offers a critical exploration of the…
Money and the Message: The Role of Training and Coaching in Graduation Programming
Graduation programmes are innovative because they combine regular cash transfers with livelihood promotion and – most innovatively – a combination of training and tailored coaching. The latter is sometimes considered the ‘X-factor’ in the graduation model, but little evidence exists regarding its role in affecting change. This paper presents findings from a mixed methods evaluation of a graduation programme in Burundi. We find that (i) training a…
Graduating Out of Poverty Across Generations: Unpacking Children’s Well‐being Trajectories in Burundi
Graduation model interventions represent a new wave of anti‐poverty programming that seeks to offer a sustainable pathway out of poverty. An expanding evidence base points towards positive economic outcomes at household level but little is known about impacts on child well‐being. This paper investigates children’s well‐being in Burundi during and after participation in a graduation model programme using a longitudinal mixed‐methods approach. The …
Linking taxation and social protection: Evidence on redistribution and poverty reduction in Ethiopia
Although redistribution results from the simultaneous effects of taxes and transfers, analyses of their distributional effects in low‐income countries have largely been undertaken from singular perspectives. This article jointly assesses the distributional effect of taxes and transfers (through social protection) using Ethiopia as a case study. We find that Ethiopia's flagship social protection programme is more effective than income taxation in …
Poor Children in Rich Households and Vice Versa: A Blurred Picture or Hidden Realities
An expanding evidence base suggests that children experiencing monetary and multidimensional poverty are not the same. This article breaks new ground by providing a unique mixed methods investigation of drivers of child poverty mismatch in Ethiopia and Vietnam, considering the role of measurement error and individualistic and structural factors. The analysis capitalises on large-scale secondary quantitative panel data and combines this with purpo…
Improving child wellbeing and care in Sub-Saharan Africa: The role of social protection
Monetary and Multidimensional Child Poverty: A Contradiction in Terms
Although the multidimensional nature of poverty is widely recognized, the extent to which monetary measures can serve as a proxy for non-monetary measures remains unresolved. This is of particular concern for children given their dependence on others for fulfilment of basic needs and assumptions about intra-household distribution that underpin monetary measures. This article adopts an innovative mixed-methods approach to investigate child poverty…
Where Next for Social Protection
The rapid ascendancy of social protection up the development policy agenda raises questions about whether its current prominence will be sustained, or whether it will turn out to be just another development fad. What trajectory will social protection follow, which actors will drive it forward and what will be the main issues and challenges? This article reports on a small foresight study designed to address the question: ‘Where next for social pr…
The ‘Twofold Investment Trap’: Children and their Role in Sustainable Graduation
Despite the overall aim of graduation to lift people out of poverty in the long term, programmes remain largely focused on achieving short- to medium-term change. This article postulates that graduation programmes should be more aspirational as graduation can only be truly sustainable when it is an intergenerational process. This requires greater consideration of the role of children in graduation programmes as households with children face an in…
Little cash to large households: Cash transfers and children's care in disadvantaged families in G hana
Social protection is widely considered to have a positive effect on children, including supporting improvements in nutritional, educational and health outcomes. Much less is known, however, about the impact of interventions on children's care. This article considers the impact of a social cash transfer targeted at poor households – G hana's Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty ( LEAP ) programme – on child well‐being, quality of care and preven…
Child Poverty in Vietnam: Providing Insights Using a Country-Specific and Multidimensional Model
Despite a wide under-prioritization, the issue of child poverty has received increasing attention worldwide over the last decade. This paper proposes a country-specific, multidimensional and outcome-based approach for the measurement of the incidence, depth and severity of child poverty. It does so at the level of the individual child using household survey data. The development of such an approach at the level of the individual child presents an…
False positives or hidden dimensions: What can monetary and multidimensional measurement tell us about child poverty in Vietnam
Roelen K, Gassmann F, de Neubourg C. False positives or hidden dimensions: what can monetary and multidimensional measurement tell us about child poverty in Vietnam? A widely used division between poverty measures based on conceptual underpinnings and analytical outcomes is that of monetary versus multidimensional measures. Comparisons of the use and outcomes of the two methods have shown that they predominantly provide different pictures of pove…
Household Trajectories in Rural Ethiopia: What Can a Mixed Method Approach Tell Us About the Impact of Poverty on Children
Transformative social protection programming for children and their carers: A gender perspective
Although social protection has gained substantial attention in recent years as a development measure and long-term response to poverty and vulnerability, it is also being increasingly criticised for failing to pay adequate attention to differences between social groups and the different problems they face in terms of access and take-up of provisions and services. In this article, we seek to challenge common aspirations and expectations of social …
The Importance of Choice and Definition for the Measurement of Child Poverty—the case of Vietnam
Increased attention to childrens' special position within poverty measurement resulted in the development of various child poverty approaches in the last decade. Analysis shows that their development processes involve a similar set of steps and decisions, predominantly taken in the same sequence. However, it also becomes apparent that many of these decisions are made implicitly rather than explicitly, resulting in unclear and non-transparent unde…
Covid-19 in LMICs: The Need to Place Stigma Front and Centre to Its Response
Receiving Social Assistance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Negating Shame or Producing Stigma
Despite the centrality of shame and stigma within research on welfare in high-income countries, these issues only exist within the periphery of rapidly expanding practice in and research on social assistance in low- and middle-income countries. This oversight undermines social assistance's potential in breaking the poverty-shame cycle and ignores its role in the (re)production of shame and stigma. This article offers a critical exploration of the…
Poor Children in Rich Households and Vice Versa: A Blurred Picture or Hidden Realities
An expanding evidence base suggests that children experiencing monetary and multidimensional poverty are not the same. This article breaks new ground by providing a unique mixed methods investigation of drivers of child poverty mismatch in Ethiopia and Vietnam, considering the role of measurement error and individualistic and structural factors. The analysis capitalises on large-scale secondary quantitative panel data and combines this with purpo…
Multidimensional Child Poverty in Vietnam from a Longitudinal Perspective—Improved Lives or Impoverished Conditions
Linking taxation and social protection: Evidence on redistribution and poverty reduction in Ethiopia
Although redistribution results from the simultaneous effects of taxes and transfers, analyses of their distributional effects in low‐income countries have largely been undertaken from singular perspectives. This article jointly assesses the distributional effect of taxes and transfers (through social protection) using Ethiopia as a case study. We find that Ethiopia's flagship social protection programme is more effective than income taxation in …
Little cash to large households: Cash transfers and children's care in disadvantaged families in G hana
Social protection is widely considered to have a positive effect on children, including supporting improvements in nutritional, educational and health outcomes. Much less is known, however, about the impact of interventions on children's care. This article considers the impact of a social cash transfer targeted at poor households – G hana's Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty ( LEAP ) programme – on child well‐being, quality of care and preven…
A child-sensitive approach to social protection: Serving practical and strategic needs
Social protection is increasingly considered a development success story. At the same time, it still does too little to account for social differentiation and to address vulnerability, as opposed to poverty. Child sensitive social protection has gained considerable momentum, particularly in a developing country context, raising questions about its concept and practical implications. We argue that three types of vulnerabilities call for more tailo…
The Breadth of Child Poverty in Europe: An Investigation into Overlap of Deprivations
Children can be considered to have a “differential experience” of poverty in childhood, setting their situation apart from adults as well as from other children depending on their life stage. The European Union (EU) is among those bodies that have recognized the need for child-focused indicators in monitoring poverty and social exclusion and is currently in the process of developing, testing, and comparing single indicators of child well-being ac…
The Development Impacts of Covid-19 at Home and Abroad: Politics and Implications of Government Action
Monetary and Multidimensional Child Poverty: A Contradiction in Terms
Although the multidimensional nature of poverty is widely recognized, the extent to which monetary measures can serve as a proxy for non-monetary measures remains unresolved. This is of particular concern for children given their dependence on others for fulfilment of basic needs and assumptions about intra-household distribution that underpin monetary measures. This article adopts an innovative mixed-methods approach to investigate child poverty…
A New Tool for Monitoring (Child) Poverty: Measures of Cumulative Deprivation
The relevance of institutions and people’s preferences in the PSNP and IN‐SCT programmes in Ethiopia
The effective implementation of social protection interventions is key for achieving positive change. The existing literature mainly focuses on issues related to programme design and impact, rather than the factors that influence the emergence, expansion and provision of these programmes. This article builds on the recent literature that indicates that the quality of institutions and people’s preferences play an important role in the implementati…
Improving child wellbeing and care in Sub-Saharan Africa: The role of social protection
Where Next for Social Protection
The rapid ascendancy of social protection up the development policy agenda raises questions about whether its current prominence will be sustained, or whether it will turn out to be just another development fad. What trajectory will social protection follow, which actors will drive it forward and what will be the main issues and challenges? This article reports on a small foresight study designed to address the question: ‘Where next for social pr…
How effective can efficient be? Social assistance in Kosovo and what it means for children
The primary objective of the majority of social assistance schemes is to reduce poverty, and targeting is often considered an important tool to reach this objective more efficiently and effectively. This paper investigates the efficiency and effectiveness of a targeted benefit scheme that uses a hybrid form of targeting and is subject to a tight budget constraint, namely the social assistance scheme in Kosovo. In recognition of the long-term detr…
Glossary – Reimagining Social Protection
This is the Glossary for IDS Bulletin 55.2, Reimagining Social Protection
Winners and losers: Class dynamics and social protection in Pakistan
This study responds to the recent call in the literature for the interrogation and understanding of how social protection is accessed and distributed among various groups and classes of society. It explores who stands to win and lose from social protection through the lens of social class using the case study of Pakistan, where the elite class holds significant sway over decision‐making. Using a unique mixed methods approach, this study offers a …
Chicken or Egg? A Bi-directional Analysis of Social Protection and Social Cohesion in Burundi and Haiti
Pathways to stronger futures? The role of social protection in reducing psychological risk factors for child development in Haiti
Social Protection, Covid-19, and Building Back Better
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought sweeping changes for economies and societies, with the most devastating consequences for individuals and groups with pre-existing vulnerabilities. As attention shifts from addressing urgent humanitarian needs to long-term response, it is time to think about the role of social protection as part of a longer-term solution to living with Covid-19, as well as supporting efforts to build back better. This article cons…
The Importance of Choice and Definition for the Measurement of Child Poverty—the case of Vietnam
Increased attention to childrens' special position within poverty measurement resulted in the development of various child poverty approaches in the last decade. Analysis shows that their development processes involve a similar set of steps and decisions, predominantly taken in the same sequence. However, it also becomes apparent that many of these decisions are made implicitly rather than explicitly, resulting in unclear and non-transparent unde…
Social Welfare in Vietnam: A Curse or Blessing for Poor Children
Despite a rapid increase in economic growth accompanied by the rise of living standards over the last two decades in Vietnam, there is still a considerable proportion of the population that lives in poor and vulnerable conditions. Children in particular are disproportionately affected by poverty. The country employs a broad range of social protection programs that tend to be regressive in effect rather than supportive of the poor. The present pap…
Child Poverty in Vietnam: Providing Insights Using a Country-Specific and Multidimensional Model
Despite a wide under-prioritization, the issue of child poverty has received increasing attention worldwide over the last decade. This paper proposes a country-specific, multidimensional and outcome-based approach for the measurement of the incidence, depth and severity of child poverty. It does so at the level of the individual child using household survey data. The development of such an approach at the level of the individual child presents an…
Girls in Transition—How to Build Evidence and Gain Insight
A New Tool for Monitoring (Child) Poverty: Measures of Cumulative Deprivation
False positives or hidden dimensions: What can monetary and multidimensional measurement tell us about child poverty in Vietnam
Roelen K, Gassmann F, de Neubourg C. False positives or hidden dimensions: what can monetary and multidimensional measurement tell us about child poverty in Vietnam? A widely used division between poverty measures based on conceptual underpinnings and analytical outcomes is that of monetary versus multidimensional measures. Comparisons of the use and outcomes of the two methods have shown that they predominantly provide different pictures of pove…
Transformative social protection programming for children and their carers: A gender perspective
Although social protection has gained substantial attention in recent years as a development measure and long-term response to poverty and vulnerability, it is also being increasingly criticised for failing to pay adequate attention to differences between social groups and the different problems they face in terms of access and take-up of provisions and services. In this article, we seek to challenge common aspirations and expectations of social …
How effective can efficient be? Social assistance in Kosovo and what it means for children
The primary objective of the majority of social assistance schemes is to reduce poverty, and targeting is often considered an important tool to reach this objective more efficiently and effectively. This paper investigates the efficiency and effectiveness of a targeted benefit scheme that uses a hybrid form of targeting and is subject to a tight budget constraint, namely the social assistance scheme in Kosovo. In recognition of the long-term detr…
Social Protection to Address the Drivers of Vulnerability: A Bridge too Far
Social protection has moved high up on the development agenda and is increasingly considered to be an inherent part of the response to poverty reduction. At the same time, it has received criticism for its current tools and interventions not appropriately taking account of social differentiation and differential access to services. This overview addresses questions around the potential of social protection to be more ambitious and actually addres…
A child-sensitive approach to social protection: Serving practical and strategic needs
Social protection is increasingly considered a development success story. At the same time, it still does too little to account for social differentiation and to address vulnerability, as opposed to poverty. Child sensitive social protection has gained considerable momentum, particularly in a developing country context, raising questions about its concept and practical implications. We argue that three types of vulnerabilities call for more tailo…
Chronic Poverty in Rural Ethiopia through the Lens of Life-histories
Studying chronic poverty using retrospective qualitative data (life-histories) in conjunction with longitudinal panel data is now recognized to provide deep and reliable insights. This paper uses three rounds of panel data and life-histories collected by Young Lives, a longitudinal study of childhood poverty, to identify factors that contribute to households becoming or remaining poor in rural Ethiopia. It combines a case-centred and a variable-c…
The Breadth of Child Poverty in Europe: An Investigation into Overlap of Deprivations
Children can be considered to have a “differential experience” of poverty in childhood, setting their situation apart from adults as well as from other children depending on their life stage. The European Union (EU) is among those bodies that have recognized the need for child-focused indicators in monitoring poverty and social exclusion and is currently in the process of developing, testing, and comparing single indicators of child well-being ac…
Multidimensional Child Poverty in Vietnam from a Longitudinal Perspective—Improved Lives or Impoverished Conditions
Real Time Monitoring in Romania: Part of the Bigger Picture
In 2009–10, a Rapid Assessment of the Social and Poverty Impacts of the Economic Crisis was undertaken in Romania to gain timely and in-depth information about the impact of the crisis on particular groups in society. This article assesses the use of a rapid assessment as a Real Time Monitoring (RTM) tool and more broadly discusses the value of RTM in a middle-country context with a myriad of existing data collection and monitoring systems. Findi…
Real Time Monitoring for the Most Vulnerable: Concepts and Methods
In assessing the value of different approaches to real?time monitoring for the most vulnerable, an initial requirement is to set out a conceptual framework that provides at least some degree of clarity as to what precisely is meant by ‘real time’, ‘monitoring’ and ‘vulnerable’– all terms that can be highly context?specific. That is the first task addressed here. The second is to consider potential sources of data that might be used to undertake r…
Household Trajectories in Rural Ethiopia: What Can a Mixed Method Approach Tell Us About the Impact of Poverty on Children
The ‘Twofold Investment Trap’: Children and their Role in Sustainable Graduation
Despite the overall aim of graduation to lift people out of poverty in the long term, programmes remain largely focused on achieving short- to medium-term change. This article postulates that graduation programmes should be more aspirational as graduation can only be truly sustainable when it is an intergenerational process. This requires greater consideration of the role of children in graduation programmes as households with children face an in…
Little cash to large households: Cash transfers and children's care in disadvantaged families in G hana
Social protection is widely considered to have a positive effect on children, including supporting improvements in nutritional, educational and health outcomes. Much less is known, however, about the impact of interventions on children's care. This article considers the impact of a social cash transfer targeted at poor households – G hana's Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty ( LEAP ) programme – on child well‐being, quality of care and preven…
Where Next for Social Protection
The rapid ascendancy of social protection up the development policy agenda raises questions about whether its current prominence will be sustained, or whether it will turn out to be just another development fad. What trajectory will social protection follow, which actors will drive it forward and what will be the main issues and challenges? This article reports on a small foresight study designed to address the question: ‘Where next for social pr…
Poor Children in Rich Households and Vice Versa: A Blurred Picture or Hidden Realities
An expanding evidence base suggests that children experiencing monetary and multidimensional poverty are not the same. This article breaks new ground by providing a unique mixed methods investigation of drivers of child poverty mismatch in Ethiopia and Vietnam, considering the role of measurement error and individualistic and structural factors. The analysis capitalises on large-scale secondary quantitative panel data and combines this with purpo…
Improving child wellbeing and care in Sub-Saharan Africa: The role of social protection
Monetary and Multidimensional Child Poverty: A Contradiction in Terms
Although the multidimensional nature of poverty is widely recognized, the extent to which monetary measures can serve as a proxy for non-monetary measures remains unresolved. This is of particular concern for children given their dependence on others for fulfilment of basic needs and assumptions about intra-household distribution that underpin monetary measures. This article adopts an innovative mixed-methods approach to investigate child poverty…
Linking taxation and social protection: Evidence on redistribution and poverty reduction in Ethiopia
Although redistribution results from the simultaneous effects of taxes and transfers, analyses of their distributional effects in low‐income countries have largely been undertaken from singular perspectives. This article jointly assesses the distributional effect of taxes and transfers (through social protection) using Ethiopia as a case study. We find that Ethiopia's flagship social protection programme is more effective than income taxation in …
Money and the Message: The Role of Training and Coaching in Graduation Programming
Graduation programmes are innovative because they combine regular cash transfers with livelihood promotion and – most innovatively – a combination of training and tailored coaching. The latter is sometimes considered the ‘X-factor’ in the graduation model, but little evidence exists regarding its role in affecting change. This paper presents findings from a mixed methods evaluation of a graduation programme in Burundi. We find that (i) training a…
Graduating Out of Poverty Across Generations: Unpacking Children’s Well‐being Trajectories in Burundi
Graduation model interventions represent a new wave of anti‐poverty programming that seeks to offer a sustainable pathway out of poverty. An expanding evidence base points towards positive economic outcomes at household level but little is known about impacts on child well‐being. This paper investigates children’s well‐being in Burundi during and after participation in a graduation model programme using a longitudinal mixed‐methods approach. The …
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