Sustainable poverty reduction through social assistance: Modality, context, and complementary programming in Bangladesh

Social assistance programs can increase consumption and reduce poverty, but less is known about whether these impacts are sustained after programs end or how design and context influence sustainability. Using data collected in two regions of Bangladesh four years after a randomized intervention ende...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Ahmed, Akhter, Hidrobo, Melissa, Hoddinott, John F., Kolt, Bastien, Roy, Shalini, Tauseef, Salauddin
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	Inglés
Published:	American Economic Association 2025
Subjects:	aid programmes poverty sustainability cash transfers food social protection
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/10568/163110

Similar Items: Sustainable poverty reduction through social assistance: Modality, context, and complementary programming in Bangladesh

Quick Look
How programme design and local context shape the lasting effects of cash and food transfers
Quick Look
Social protection and sustainable poverty reduction: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh
Quick Look
Much ado about modalities: Multicountry experiments on the effects of cash and food transfers on consumption patterns
Quick Look
Can transfers and complementary nutrition programming reduce intimate partner violence four years post-program? Experimental evidence from Bangladesh
Quick Look
Costing alternative transfer modalities
Quick Look
Costing alternative transfer modalities
Quick Look
Opinion: Measuring the unintended benefits of a development program
Quick Look
Transfer Modality Research Initiative: Impacts of combining social protection and nutrition in Bangladesh
Quick Look
Can transfers and behavior change communication reduce intimate partner violence four years post-program? Experimental evidence from Bangladesh
Quick Look
Payment modality preferences: Evidence from Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme
Quick Look
Beneficiary views on cash and in-kind payments: Evidence from Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme
Quick Look
Social assistance and adaptation to flooding in Bangladesh
Quick Look
Expanding lessons from a randomised impact evaluation of cash and food transfers in Ecuador and Uganda
Quick Look
An evaluation of the distributional power of PROGRESA's cash transfers in Mexico
Quick Look
An evaluation of the distributional power of PROGRESA's cash transfers in Mexico
Quick Look
Leveraging social assistance to strengthen women’s and girls’ climate resilience: What is the potential, and what are promising program designs?
Quick Look
Multi-component cash transfer programs: Evidence from Mali’s social safety net program (Jigisémèjiri)
Quick Look
Transfers, behavior change communication, and intimate partner violence: Post-program evidence from rural Bangladesh
Quick Look
Measuring women’s decisionmaking: Indicator choice and survey design experiments from cash and food transfer evaluations in Ecuador, Uganda and Yemen
Quick Look
Conditional cash transfers and their impact on child work and schooling: evidence from the PROGRESA program in Mexico
Quick Look
An evaluation of the impact of PROGRESA cash payments on private inter-household transfers: final report
Quick Look
Economic and welfare implications of the reduction of US foreign assistance in Malawi
Quick Look
In the form of bread: A randomized comparison of cash and food transfers in Yemen
Quick Look
Post-program impacts of transfer programs on child development: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh