January 20, 2021 - 02:00 pm to 03:30 pm CAT
The political economy of lean season transfers in Malawi: Is hunger the only targeting criterion? Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program
Too good to be true? Exploring subsidy reductions in Ghana
This story was cross-posted from the IFPRI website and was originally written by Kwaw Andam, a research fellow with the Ghana Strategy Support Program (GSSP). It also appears on the GSSP blog. Fertilizer subsidies are used across Africa south of the Sahara as the preferred tool for governments trying to boost incomes of poor smallholder farmers >> Read more Source: Malawi Strategy Support Program
Too good to be true? A model for reaching poor farmers and reducing subsidy costs in Ghana
It is no secret that fertilizer subsidies are back in vogue across SSA as the preferred tool for governments trying to boost incomes of poor smallholder farmers by increasing farm production and agricultural productivity. The financial burden of fertilizer subsidies is also widely recognized, exacerbated by the expense of improving the accuracy of targeting, as […] Source: IFPRI Ghana
A Catch-22 in Safety Net Targeting in Bangladesh
A Bureaucratic Catch-22: Study in Bangladesh Shows How Safety Nets Can Overlook the Poorest Around the world, governments and development partners make hard choices on how to invest their limited resources to help the needy. But in a country like Bangladesh, where almost one fourth of the population of 165 million lives below the poverty line, […] Source: IFPRI Bangladesh Country Office
