Impact
- Lessons learned from a cash transfer project in Malawi
- K. Savage; E. Umar / Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2006
- In response to the 2004/5 crop failure, Oxfam planned a programme in southern Malawi, which included a ‘pilot’ cash-transfer project in Traditional Authority (TA) Kapichi, Thyolo District. The project was to support 4,000 ...
- Consumer price subsidies and nutrition: results from two Chinese provinces
- R., T. Jensen; N., H. Miller / Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2008
- Many developing countries use food price subsidies or price controls to improve the nutrition of the poor. However, subsidising goods on which households spend a high proportion of their budget can create large wealth effects. Consume...
- Assessing the impacts of food insecurity in Sudan
- T. Frankenberger; J. Downen; J. Meyer / Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2007
- This study provides an assessment of the key issues related to the impact that the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) has had on the most insecure food and nutritionally vulnerable areas and people in southern Sudan and the Three Are...
- Statistical methodology for targeting cash transfers in Tunisia
- S. Bibi; C. Muller / Développement, Institutions & Analyses de Long terme, 2006
- This paper introduces a new methodology to target direct transfers against poverty. This method is based on estimation methods that focus on the poor. Using data from Tunisia, the authors estimate ‘focused&...
- Social reforms and civil conflict in Tunisia
- C. Muller / Développement, Institutions & Analyses de Long terme, 2007
- This document draws some lessons from the Tunisian experience of social reforms and associated civil conflict. The main focus is the riots that occurred after subsidy cuts and their possible substitution of price subsidies by direct c...
- Learning from a successful safety net programme in Ethiopia
- Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2007
- This brief synthesises three reports on Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Nets Programme (PSNP). The first is on trends in programme transfers within targeted households. It analyses the economic behaviour of the beneficia...
- Rural livelihoods, poverty reduction and food security in Southern Africa: is CBNRM the answer?
- Jaap Arntzen; Tshepo Setlhogile; Jon Barnes / USA Agency for International Development, 2007
- This paper focuses on three economic aspects of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) approaches in southern Africa: socioeconomic benefits of CBNRM and contributions to rural livelihoods im...
- Migration and social protection in Bangladesh
- J. Seeley; K. Gardner / Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2007
- How does migration exacerbate the difficulties that many people already face in accessing formal social protection, such as additional income or food? And how can migration itself facilitate access to an informal form of social protec...
- Comparing effectiveness of South Africa’s rural and urban development programmes
- D., Everatt; M., Smith; G. Solanki / Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2006
- This report is the third in a sequence that gives qualitative and quantitative data from socio-economic and demographic baseline studies in 21 South African areas (nodes) making up the Integrated Sustainable Rural Development Programm...
- Finds little evidence for the educational impact of cash transfers
- F. Reimers; C. da Silva; E. Trevino / UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2006
- This paper examines the educational effects of conditional cash transfers (CCT) for education. The study finds that based on the evidence reviewed in this paper, there is very limited support for the conclusion that CCTs are effective...
- Lessons learned from a cash transfer project in Malawi
- K. Savage; E. Umar / Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2006
- In response to the 2004/5 crop failure, Oxfam planned a programme in southern Malawi, which included a ‘pilot’ cash-transfer project in Traditional Authority (TA) Kapichi, Thyolo District. The project was to support 4,000 ...
- Consumer price subsidies and nutrition: results from two Chinese provinces
- R., T. Jensen; N., H. Miller / Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2008
- Many developing countries use food price subsidies or price controls to improve the nutrition of the poor. However, subsidising goods on which households spend a high proportion of their budget can create large wealth effects. Consume...
- Assessing the impacts of food insecurity in Sudan
- T. Frankenberger; J. Downen; J. Meyer / Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2007
- This study provides an assessment of the key issues related to the impact that the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) has had on the most insecure food and nutritionally vulnerable areas and people in southern Sudan and the Three Are...
- Statistical methodology for targeting cash transfers in Tunisia
- S. Bibi; C. Muller / Développement, Institutions & Analyses de Long terme, 2006
- This paper introduces a new methodology to target direct transfers against poverty. This method is based on estimation methods that focus on the poor. Using data from Tunisia, the authors estimate ‘focused&...
- Social reforms and civil conflict in Tunisia
- C. Muller / Développement, Institutions & Analyses de Long terme, 2007
- This document draws some lessons from the Tunisian experience of social reforms and associated civil conflict. The main focus is the riots that occurred after subsidy cuts and their possible substitution of price subsidies by direct c...
- Learning from a successful safety net programme in Ethiopia
- Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2007
- This brief synthesises three reports on Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Nets Programme (PSNP). The first is on trends in programme transfers within targeted households. It analyses the economic behaviour of the beneficia...
- Rural livelihoods, poverty reduction and food security in Southern Africa: is CBNRM the answer?
- Jaap Arntzen; Tshepo Setlhogile; Jon Barnes / USA Agency for International Development, 2007
- This paper focuses on three economic aspects of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) approaches in southern Africa: socioeconomic benefits of CBNRM and contributions to rural livelihoods im...
- Migration and social protection in Bangladesh
- J. Seeley; K. Gardner / Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2007
- How does migration exacerbate the difficulties that many people already face in accessing formal social protection, such as additional income or food? And how can migration itself facilitate access to an informal form of social protec...
- Comparing effectiveness of South Africa’s rural and urban development programmes
- D., Everatt; M., Smith; G. Solanki / Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2006
- This report is the third in a sequence that gives qualitative and quantitative data from socio-economic and demographic baseline studies in 21 South African areas (nodes) making up the Integrated Sustainable Rural Development Programm...
- Finds little evidence for the educational impact of cash transfers
- F. Reimers; C. da Silva; E. Trevino / UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2006
- This paper examines the educational effects of conditional cash transfers (CCT) for education. The study finds that based on the evidence reviewed in this paper, there is very limited support for the conclusion that CCTs are effective...
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