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Social protection and sustainable poverty reduction: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh
| Content Provider | Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) |
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| Author | Ahmed, Akhter Hidrobo, Melissa Hoddinott, John F. Koch, Bastien Roy, Shalini Tauseef, Salauddin |
| Organization | IFPRI - Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division |
| Organization | IFPRI - Bangladesh Policy Research and Strategy Support Program |
| Organization | IFPRI - Transfer Modality Research Initiative |
| Spatial Coverage | Bangladesh [BD] |
| Description | Social protection programs are primarily focused on influencing household behavior in the short term, increasing consumption to reduce poverty and food insecurity, and promoting investments in human capital. A large body of evidence across numerous settings shows that cash and food transfer programs are highly effective in doing so. However, there is growing interest in understanding the extent to which such programs can help households stay out of poverty in the longer term, specifically after transfers end. We bring new evidence to this question, re-interviewing Bangladeshi households that participated in a well-implemented randomized social protection intervention four years after it ended. We find that combining transfers, either cash or food, with behavior change communication activities sustainably reduced poverty. Cash transfers alone had sustainable effects, but these were context-specific. The beneficial impacts of food transfers did not persist four years after the intervention finished. |
| Sponsorship | United Nations World Food Programme Cornell University Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, United Kingdom Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation United States Agency for International Development |
| Related Links | https://cgspace.cgiar.org/items/c4ade1c2-aacf-4ce0-af79-f35f5c8fd717 |
| File Format | |
| DOI | 10.2499/p15738coll2.134221 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | International Food Policy Research Institute |
| Publisher Date | 2020-12-01 |
| Publisher Place | Washington, DC |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Policies, Institutions, and Markets Poverty Alleviation Households Social Protection Food Assistance Sustainability Nutrition Food Security Cash Transfers Poverty Food Aid Poverty Reduction |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Agronomy and Crop Science Food Science Plant Science |
