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Do cash transfers foster resilience? : evidence from rural Niger

Premand, Patrick; Stoeffler, Quentin - 2020

Policy makers are increasingly interested in strategies to promote resilience and mitigate the effects of future climatic shocks. Cash transfer programs have had widely documented positive welfare impacts. They often also aim to offer protection against shocks, but their role in fostering...

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Promoting early childhood development through combining cash transfers and parenting programs

Arriagada, Ana M.; Perry, Jonathan; Rawlings, Laura; … - 2018

This paper examines the potential for bringing together cash transfer and parenting programs focused on child stimulation to boost child development, particularly for children ages 0-3 years. The paper reviews the rationale for linking both types of programs and the evidence to date on the...

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Sustaining poverty gains : a vulnerability map to guide social policy

Barriga Cabanillas, Oscar; Bossuroy, Thomas; Corral … - 2024

Poverty maps are a useful tool for the targeting of social programs on areas with high concentrations of poverty …. However, a static focus on poverty ignores the temporal dimension of poverty. Thus, current nonpoor households still face … substantial welfare volatility and are at risk of becoming poor in the face of shocks. We combine the methods of poverty mapping …

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Adaptive safety nets for rural Africa : drought-sensitive targeting with sparse data

Baez, Javier E.; Kshirsagar, Varun; Skoufias, Emmanuel - 2019

This paper combines remote-sensed data and individual child-, mother-, and household-level data from the Demographic and Health Surveys for five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (Malawi, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) to design a prototype drought-contingent targeting framework that...

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Behavioral change promotion, cash transfers and early childhood development : experimental evidence from a government program in a low-income setting

Premand, Patrick; Barry, Oumar - 2020

Signs of development delays and malnutrition are widespread among young children in low-income settings. Social protection programs such as cash transfers are increasingly combined with behavioral change promotion or parenting interventions to improve early childhood development. This paper...

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Should cash transfers be confined to the poor? : implications for poverty and inequality in Latin America

Acosta, Pablo; Leite, Phillipe; Rigolini, Jamele - 2011

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Beneficiary views on cash and in-kind payments : evidence from Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme

Hirvonen, Kalle; Hoddinott, John - 2020

Economists often default to the assumption that cash is always preferable to an in-kind transfer. Do beneficiaries feel the same way? This paper addresses this issue using longitudinal household data from Ethiopia where a large-scale social safety net intervention (PSNP) operates. Even though...

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The redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger

Hounsa, Thierry; Coulibaly, Mohamed; Sanoh, Aly - 2019

This study assesses the redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger. Fiscal policy is poverty increasing … three deciles, respectively). Although existing direct fiscal transfers have poverty-reducing effects, they are too small …

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Fighting Lone Mothers' Poverty Through In-Work Benefits - Methodological Issues and Policy Suggestions

Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2021

(2012) find a positive effect of the reform on lone mothers’ labour supply and a small reduction in poverty. Is the best … result that policy makers could obtain in terms of poverty reduction? In this paper, I estimate a discrete choice model of … have minimized poverty among lone mothers …

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Efficiency, legitimacy and impacts of targeting methods : evidence from an experiment in Niger

Premand, Patrick; Schnitzer, Pascale - 2018

The methods to select safety net beneficiaries are the subject of frequent policy debates. This paper presents the results from a randomized experiment analyzing how efficiency, legitimacy, and short-term program effectiveness vary across widely used targeting methods. The experiment was...

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