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Synopsis: Ethiopia’s social protection program is associated with improved household resilience
| Content Provider | Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) |
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| Author | Abay, Kibrom A. Abay, Mehari Hiluf Berhane, Guush Chamberlin, Jordan |
| Organization | IFPRI - Development Strategy and Governance Division |
| Organization | IFPRI - Ethiopia Strategy Support Program |
| Spatial Coverage | Ethiopia [ET] |
| Description | We examine the implication of the Productive Safety Nets Program (PSNP) in Ethiopia on the economic resilience of rural households. Using five-rounds of household panel data covering nine years, we implement a recently developed probabilistic moment-based approach to measure resilience and evaluate the role of PSNP transfers and duration of participation in PSNP on household resilience. We document three important findings. First, although PSNP transfers are positively strongly associated with resilience, we find that transfers below the median are less likely to generate meaningful improvements in resilience. Second, continuous participation in PSNP is associated with higher resilience. Third, our evaluation of both short-term welfare outcomes and longer-term resilience suggests that these outcomes are likely to be driven by different factors. These findings suggest boosting household resilience will require significant investments in social protection programs and continuous participation in these programs. Our findings have important implications for the design and targeting of social protection programs in Africa, where safety nets programs generally operate at small scale with small transfers to beneficiaries over relatively short durations. |
| Sponsorship | United States Agency for International Development Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, United Kingdom European Commission |
| Related Links | https://cgspace.cgiar.org/items/3c3918eb-6815-4e5e-b5ff-23aece88e6e7 |
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| DOI | 10.2499/p15738coll2.134862 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | International Food Policy Research Institute Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Studies Institute |
| Publisher Place | Washington, DC |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights License | CC-BY-4.0 |
| Subject Keyword | Policies, Institutions, and Markets Households Social Protection Cash Transfers Social Safety Nets Poverty Resilience |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Report |
| Subject | Agronomy and Crop Science Food Science Plant Science |
