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Direct support to small scale farmers reduces poverty: What Zambia is doing rightOver half of Zambia’s population lived below the national poverty line in 2015. In rural areas, where 89% of households are engaged in agriculture, the poverty rate was even higher, at 77% of the population. Coffee harvest at a farm in Zambia...
Agricultural policy Tax Cash transfersWorking Paper
Distributional impacts of agricultural policies in Zambia: A microsimulation approachThis paper examines the distributional impacts of agricultural policies versus those of cash transfers using a tax–benefit microsimulation model for Zambia for the policy year 2020...
Agricultural policy Tax Cash transfers
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Cash grants to manufacturers after Cyclone Idai: RCT evidence from MozambiqueIn March 2019, Cyclone Idai hit central Mozambique and caused widespread damage, including businesses in the enterprise sector...
Firms Manufacturing Natural disastersBook Chapter
The politics of promoting social cash transfers in ZambiaFrom the book: The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa
Cash transfers Ideas Political settlementsBook Chapter
Policy diffusion, domestic politics, and social assistance in Lesotho, 1998-2012From the book: The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa
Lesotho policy diffusion Cash transfersWorking Paper
Winning or buying hearts and minds?: Cash transfers and political attitudes in PakistanThis paper studies how household-level receipts of cash transfers affect political attitudes in Pakistan. The paper exploits the locally exogenous eligibility cut-off of the flagship Benazir Income Support Programme to estimate causal effects...
Social protection Political attitudes Cash transfersAnnual Lecture
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The politics of scaling up social protection in KenyaLiterature on social protection in Kenya shows progress in implementation of cash transfers but not the social health insurance scheme...
Kenya Social protection Cash transfersWorking Paper
Are there different spillover effects from cash transfers to men and women?: Impacts on investments in education in post-war UgandaThis paper looks at the spillover effects of grants under the Youth Opportunities Programme (YOP) on human capital investments in conflict-affected Northern Uganda...
Cash transfers Spillover effects Household consumptionWorking Paper
The politics of promoting social protection in ZambiaThis paper examines the rise of the social protection agenda in Zambia, and demonstrates that this has two alternative drivers: shifting dynamics within Zambia’s political settlement and the promotional efforts of a transnational policy coaliti...
Cash transfers Ideas Political settlementsWorking Paper
Policy diffusion, domestic politics and social assistance in Lesotho, 1998–2012Lesotho is a small Southern African country that has introduced two national cash transfer programmes, the Old Age Pension and the Child Grant Programme...
Lesotho policy diffusion Cash transfersWorking Paper
Cash transfers in Latin America: Effects on poverty and redistributionIn this paper, we present comparative evidence for eight Latin American countries regarding design and effects of cash transfers (CTs)...
Cash transfers Child poverty Inequality