This paper combines remote-sensed data and individual child-, mother-, and household-level data from the Demographic and Health Surveys for five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (Malawi, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) to design a prototype drought-contingent targeting framework that may be used in scarce-data contexts. To accomplish this, the paper: (i) develops simple and easy-to-communicate measures of drought shocks; (ii) shows that...
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2019/12/02
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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2019/12/02
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Adaptive Safety Nets for Rural Africa : Drought-Sensitive Targeting with Sparse Data