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Working Paper No. 4. Cash Transfers and High Food Prices: Explaining Outcomes on Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme
R. Sabates-Wheeler,S. Devereux +1 more
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The article was published on 2010-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 148 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Food security & Cash transfers.read more
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Resilience: New Utopia or New Tyranny? Reflection about the Potentials and Limits of the Concept of Resilience in Relation to Vulnerability Reduction Programmes
TL;DR: In this article, the advantages and limits of resilience are assessed in a critical manner, and it is shown that resilience is not a pro-poor concept, and the objective of poverty reduction cannot simply be substituted by resilience building.
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Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide guidance on how to design climate policies so they contribute to poverty reduction, and how to designing poverty reduction policies that contribute to climate change mitigation and resilience building, and explore how they can more easily be achieved if considered together.
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The Cash Dividend: The Rise of Cash Transfer Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa
Marito Garcia,Charity Moore +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identified more than 120 cash transfer programs that were implemented between 2000 and mid-2009 in Sub-Saharan Africa and provided a review of these programs and their specific design features in the African context.
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Got milk? The impact of Heifer International's livestock donation programs in Rwanda on nutritional outcomes
TL;DR: The authors evaluated the impact of Heifer International's dairy cow and meat goat donation programs in Rwanda and found that the program substantially increased dairy and meat consumption among Rwandan households who were given a dairy cow or a meat goat, respectively.
Africa human development report 2012: towards a food secure future
TL;DR: The Africa Human Development Report as mentioned in this paper seeks to understand the deeper causes behind these two jarring paradoxes and explores options for unleashing an era of mutually reinforcing advances in food security and human development.
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Social protection for the poor and poorest : concepts, policies and politics
TL;DR: Barrientos et al. as discussed by the authors proposed a framework for social protection for the poor and the poorest in the developing world, which is based on the concept of risk, needs and rights.
ETHIOPIA'S Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP):
Stephen Devereux,Rachel Sabates-Wheeler,Rachel Slater,Mulugeta Tefera,Taylor Allen Brown,Amdissa Teshome +5 more
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Cash-based Responses in Emergencies
TL;DR: The debate around the appropriate use of cash in emergencies has often been framed, as it is here, as one between cash and food as discussed by the authors, but it is important to remember that cash is not just an alternative to food aid but to all forms of in-kind assistance.
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