The Impacts of Safety Nets in Africa : What Are We Learning?
Safety nets in Africa are a popular policy instrument to address the widespread chronic poverty and encourage human capital investments in the education and health of children. Although there have been considerable analyses on the impacts of safety...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/436571511364314467/The-impacts-of-safety-nets-in-Africa-what-are-we-learning http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28916 |
| Summary: | Safety nets in Africa are a popular
policy instrument to address the widespread chronic poverty
and encourage human capital investments in the education and
health of children. Although there have been considerable
analyses on the impacts of safety nets globally,
particularly in Latin America, less been done on
synthesizing results across Sub-Saharan African programs.
This study fills this gap by systematically extracting and
standardizing the results across impact evaluations for
better understanding of what has been achieved using this
policy instrument in the continent. The study finds that
these programs on average have significant positive impacts
on total and food consumption. The programs show promising
results on asset accumulation, such as livestock ownership.
However, there is substantial heterogeneity in the impacts
achieved across programs for some development outcomes.
Through exploring this heterogeneity in impacts, the study
puts forward several suggestions for better targeting
various development outcomes through modifications in the
design and implementation of safety net programs. |
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