Social protection and sustainable poverty reduction: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh
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...
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| author | Ahmed, Akhter Hidrobo, Melissa Hoddinott, John F. Koch, Bastien Roy, Shalini Tauseef, Salauddin |
| author_browse | Ahmed, Akhter Hidrobo, Melissa Hoddinott, John F. Koch, Bastien Roy, Shalini Tauseef, Salauddin |
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| 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. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1435742025-12-02T21:02:41Z Social protection and sustainable poverty reduction: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh Ahmed, Akhter Hidrobo, Melissa Hoddinott, John F. Koch, Bastien Roy, Shalini Tauseef, Salauddin poverty alleviation households social protection food assistance sustainability nutrition food security cash transfers poverty food aid poverty reduction 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. 2020-12-01 2024-05-22T12:15:17Z 2024-05-22T12:15:17Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143574 en https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133421 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133450 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133420 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134946 https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00791 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179866 https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.0720-11014R2 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134479 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143094 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Ahmed, Akhter; Hidrobo, Melissa; Hoddinott, John F.; Koch, Bastien; Roy, Shalini; and Tauseef, Salauddin. 2020. Social protection and sustainable poverty reduction: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1988. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134221. |
| spellingShingle | poverty alleviation households social protection food assistance sustainability nutrition food security cash transfers poverty food aid poverty reduction Ahmed, Akhter Hidrobo, Melissa Hoddinott, John F. Koch, Bastien Roy, Shalini Tauseef, Salauddin Social protection and sustainable poverty reduction: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh |
| title | Social protection and sustainable poverty reduction: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh |
| title_full | Social protection and sustainable poverty reduction: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh |
| title_fullStr | Social protection and sustainable poverty reduction: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh |
| title_full_unstemmed | Social protection and sustainable poverty reduction: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh |
| title_short | Social protection and sustainable poverty reduction: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh |
| title_sort | social protection and sustainable poverty reduction experimental evidence from bangladesh |
| topic | poverty alleviation households social protection food assistance sustainability nutrition food security cash transfers poverty food aid poverty reduction |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143574 |
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