Documents et rapports

Impact des Mesures d’Inclusion Productive dans les Filets Sociaux Adaptatifs au Niger (français)

Do Public Works Programs Have Sustained Impacts ? A Review of Experimental Studies from LMICs (anglais)

Many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have introduced public works programs that offer temporary cash-for-work opportunities to poor individuals. This paper reviews experimental evidence on the...

Cash and Conflict: Large-Scale Experimental Evidence from Niger (anglais)

Conflict undermines development, while poverty, in turn, breeds conflict. Policy interventions such as cash transfers could lower engagement in conflict by raising poor households' welfare and productivity...

Do Workfare Programs Live Up to Their Promises ? Experimental Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire (anglais)

Workfare programs are one of the most popular social protection and employment policy instruments in the developing world. They evoke the promise of efficient targeting, as well as immediate and lasting...

Pathways out of Extreme Poverty : Tackling Psychosocial and Capital Constraints with a Multi-faceted Social Protection Program in Niger (anglais)

This paper analyzes a four-arm randomized evaluation of a multi-faceted economic inclusion intervention delivered by the Government of Niger to female beneficiaries of a national cash transfer program...

Texting Parents about Early Child Development : Behavioral Changes and Unintended Social Effects (anglais)

Parenting interventions have the potential to improve early childhood development. Text messages are considered a promising channel to deliver parenting information at large scale. This paper tests whether...

Do Cash Transfers Foster Resilience ? Evidence from Rural Niger (anglais)

Policy makers are increasingly interested in strategies to promote resilience and mitigate the effects of future climatic shocks. Cash transfer programs have had widely documented positive welfare impacts...

Productive Inclusion Measures and Adaptive Social Protection in the Sahel (Vol. 1 of 2) : A Case Study (anglais)

This case study presents the experience of implementing a coherent set of productive inclusion measures through national SSN programs in four Sahel countries. It provides insights on the challenges and...

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Behavioral Change Promotion, Cash Transfers and Early Childhood Development : Experimental Evidence from a Government Program in a Low-Income Setting (anglais)

Signs of development delays and malnutrition are widespread among young children in low-income settings. Social protection programs such as cash transfers are increasingly combined with behavioral change...

Contraintes a l’Emploi Productif pour les Beneficiaires des Filets Sociaux dans le Sahel (français)

Contraintes a l'Emploi Productif Pour Les Beneficiaires Des Filets Sociaux Dans Le Sahel : Résultats d'Uune Enquête Qualitative Multi-Pays (français)

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Constraints to Productive Employment Faced by Safety Nets Beneficiaries in the Sahel : Results of a Multi-Country Qualitative Assessment (anglais)

In the Sahel subregion, which extends over Central and Western Africa, low labor productivity poses a challenge to poverty reduction, economic growth, and social stability. Social Safety Net Projects target...

Report : Long-term Evaluation of Atencion a Crisis Interventions (Vol. 1 of 2) (anglais)

In recent years, there has been renewed attention on policies to enhance the income generating capacity and productivity of the poor (World Bank, 2012). Since both skills and capital can limit productive...

The Medium-Term Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Labor Market Outcomes : Experimental Evidence from University Graduates in Tunisia (anglais)

Despite the widespread popularity of entrepreneurship education, there is thin evidence on its effectiveness in improving employment outcomes over the medium to long term. A potential time lag between...

Creating new positions ? direct and indirect effects of a subsidized apprenticeship program (anglais)

Evaluations of employment programs usually focus on direct impacts on participants. Yet employment programs can have a range of indirect effects that are rarely quantified. This paper analyzes the impact...

Social accountability and service delivery : experimental evidence from Uganda (anglais)

Corruption and mismanagement of public resources can affect the quality of government services and undermine growth. Can citizens in poor communities be empowered to demand better-quality public investments?...

Efficiency, legitimacy and impacts of targeting methods : evidence from an experiment in Niger (anglais)

The methods to select safety net beneficiaries are the subject of frequent policy debates. This paper presents the results from a randomized experiment analyzing how efficiency, legitimacy, and short-term...

Combining income generation with Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs to cope with severe weather conditions (anglais)

Severe weather conditions can undo even the best efforts of families to break free of poverty. Households that rely on subsistence or small-scale farming are especially at the mercy of severe weather...

Impact evaluation in practice (portugais)

Impact evaluation figures among a broad range of complementary methods that support evidence-based policy. Although this book focuses on quantitative impact evaluation methods, it begins by placing them...