How do national social programs influence local voting? This study utilizes the experimental set up of a conditional cash transfer program to show that small, targeted cash transfers can have large electoral effects. The Honduran PRAF program allocated an average of $18 per capita per year to...
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Social protection and social grants
by Elizabeth Linos in 2013
by Armando Barrientos, Jasmina Byrne, Juan Miguel Villa, Paola Peña, UNICEF in 2013
The paper assesses the available evidence on the potential effects of social transfers on child protection outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: the negative outcomes or damaging exposure of children to violence, exploitation, abuse and neglect, and improved outcomes or a reduction in...
by Armando Barrientos, David Hulme, Brooks World Poverty Institute in 2013
In the discussion leading to the review of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), it will be important to take account of the recent extension of social protection in the South and its contribution to the reduction of global poverty and vulnerability. Antipoverty programmes, providing direct...
by Olivier De Schutter, The Guardian in 2013
Seventy-five to eighty per cent of the world’s poor do not have comprehensive social protection, yet the total costs of introducing social protection would amount to only 2%-6% of global GDP. Poorer States often have not adopted social protection systems because a) the development models...
by Christophe Béné, Stephen Devereux, Rachel Sabates-Wheeler in 2012
Using panel data from the Ethiopian Productive Safety Net Program, this paper explores the degree to which this social protection programme has been successful in protecting its beneficiaries against the various shocks that have affected the Horn of Africa in the recent past. The analysis...