Does Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program improve child nutrition?

Does the Social Safety Net Improve Welfare? A Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis

Does the social safety net improve welfare? Conventional wisdom says that means-tested social safety net programs improve welfare because they provide partial insurance against large negative shocks by guaranteeing a minimum consumption floor, but some economists have argued that they may also discourage labor supply and reduce capital accumulation. Furthermore, recent research suggests that th...

Can a Social Safety Net Affect Farmers’ Crop Portfolios? A Study of the Productive Safety Net Programme in Ethiopia

In this paper, we examine whether a minimum level of ensured consumption from a social safety net has the potential of breaking the vicious circle of risk avoidance and low return in African agriculture. We study how the implementation of a social safety net programme in Ethiopia has affected the value, risk and composition of farmers’ crop portfolios. The effects of programme participation on ...

Does ownership of improved dairy cow breeds improve child nutrition? A pathway analysis for Uganda

The promotion of livestock production is widely believed to support enhanced diet quality and child nutrition, but the empirical evidence for this causal linkage remains narrow and ambiguous. This study examines whether adoption of improved dairy cow breeds is linked to farm-level outcomes that translate into household-level benefits including improved child nutrition outcomes in Uganda. Using ...

Women's education can improve child nutrition in India.

Child malnutrition has long been recognized as a serious problem in India, but national-level data on levels and causes of malnutrition have been scarce. Hence, during 1992-93, a National Family Health Survey was carried out to examine the levels and determinants of child malnutrition in the country. More specifically, this survey estimated the levels of child malnutrition and examined the ef...

Can Radio Drama Improve Child Health and Nutrition in Somalia?