ESSP Working Paper 126, by Paul Dorosh, Jenny Smart, Bart Minten, and David Stifel. Abstract: Increases in cereal prices can have adverse effects on poor net food buyers. This is a particular problem in Ethiopia because of frequent natural calamities – especially droughts – that lead to significant price hikes. Conversely, falling domestic prices of >> Read more Source: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
New Publication: IFPRI-NSSP Working Paper No. 57
The Nigeria Strategy Support Program (NSSP) Working Paper No. 57, entitled “Federal government support for agriculture in Nigeria: Analysis with a public expenditure lens”, and co-authored by Chinedum Nwoko, Amarachi Grace Ikejiofor, Nchedo Theresa Nna... Source: IFPRI Nigeria Country Office
Payment modality preferences: Evidence from Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme
ESSP Working Paper 125, by Kalle Hirvonen and John Hoddinott. Abstract: Economists typically default to the assumption that cash is always preferable to an in-kind transfer. We extend the classic Southworth (1945) framework to predict under what conditions this assumption holds. We take the model to longitudinal household data from Ethiopia where a large-scale social >> Read more Source: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
Targeting Social Transfers in Pastoralist Societies: Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme Revisited
ESSP Working Paper 124, by Jeremy Lind, Rachel Sabates-Wheeler, John Hoddinott and Alemayehu S. Taffesse. Abstract: In the Ethiopian highlands, the PSNP is a successful social safety net intervention in terms of both targeting and impact. By contrast, existing studies situated in the country's lowland Afar and Somali regions suggest that PSNP targeting is beset >> Read more Source: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
Structural Change and Poverty Reduction in Ethiopia: Economy-wide analysis of the evolving role of agriculture
ESSP Working Paper 123, by Paul Dorosh, James Thurlow, Frehiwot Worku Kebede, Tadele Ferede, and Alemayehu S. Taffesse. Abstract: The effectiveness of agricultural growth in reducing poverty at the national level depends on several factors,
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