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Social protection and sustainable poverty reduction: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh

2020Ahmed, Akhter; Hidrobo, Melissa; Hoddinott, John F.; Koch, Bastien; Roy, Shalini; Tauseef, Salauddin
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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 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.

Year published

2020

Authors

Ahmed, Akhter; Hidrobo, Melissa; Hoddinott, John F.; Koch, Bastien; Roy, Shalini; Tauseef, Salauddin

Citation

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.

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Bangladesh

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Southern Asia; Asia; Poverty Alleviation; Households; Social Protection; Food Assistance; Sustainability; Nutrition; Food Security; Cash Transfers; Poverty; Food Aid; Poverty Reduction

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English

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Open Access

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Policies, Institutions, and Markets

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Agro-processing and horticultural exports from Africa

2017Fukase, Emiko; Martin, Will
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Agro-processing and horticultural exports from Africa

This paper analyzes the principal features of agro-processing and horticultural exports from SSA and explores policy alternatives based on simulation analyses. We first provide a conceptual section focusing on changing patterns of processing and exports (section 2). We then examine how the pattern of exports from Africa compares with the pattern in other regions (section 3). Following that, we examine the directions of trade in African agricultural exports and the patterns of protection facing, and imposed by, African countries (section 4). Next, we turn to simulation exercises to examine the impacts of potential reforms on exports of processed and horticultural exports from Africa (section 5). With this as background, we turn to consider the options for policy makers in Africa (section 6).

Year published

2017

Authors

Fukase, Emiko; Martin, Will

Citation

Fukase, Emiko; and Martin, Will. 2017. Agro-processing and horticultural exports from Africa. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1690. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146318

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Exports; Trade Barriers; Economic Policies; Horticulture; Trade Policies; Trade; Food Processing; Agricultural Trade

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English

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Policies, Institutions, and Markets

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Working Paper