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Searching with a thematic focus on Livelihoods, Livelihoods social protection, Cash transfers, Food security in Ethiopia

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    Can payment for work schemes replace food aid in Ethiopia?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Chronic food insecurity presents a huge challenge to achieving sustainable development. Food aid is often used to provide assistance to the poorest people. This can result in dependency on food aid, however, and increase the numbers of households that lack food each year. What are the alternatives, and do they work?
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    Safety nets: reducing risk and encouraging development

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Providing ‘safety nets’ during food shortages involves distributing food or cash. This is a common short-term relief strategy to food shortages. Many economists claim that these discourage economic development, but safety nets actually encourage development when part of a comprehensive social protection strategy.
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    Moving from food aid to cash transfers in Ethiopia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    The debate on whether cash transfers are more effective than food aid continues. Governments and organisations seeking to transfer cash to poor households should be aware of the challenges in targeting and the availability and price of food in local markets.
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    Food aid or cash aid? Comparing effects on the Ethiopian economy

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Policymakers, donors and non-governmental organisations have in recent years debated whether it is more effective to provide aid to poor households in the form of food or cash. Most studies have focused on specific aspects of the effects of aid, neglecting the impact on and feedback from different sectors of the economy.
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    Is cash the best way to assist poor and vulnerable people?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    In the face of chronic poverty, food insecurity and increasing HIV and AIDS in eastern and southern Africa, there is growing recognition of the importance of cash transfers for reaching vulnerable children and households. A variety of cash transfer schemes are being piloted. Should they be scaled-up?