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A Multifaceted Program Causes Lasting Progress for the Very Poor: Evidence From Six Countries

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title A Multifaceted Program Causes Lasting Progress for the Very Poor: Evidence From Six Countries
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NHIXNT
 
Creator Banerjee, Abhijit
Duflo, Esther
Goldberg, Nathanael
Karlan, Dean
Osei, Robert
Parienté, William
Shapiro, Jeremy
Thuysbaert, Bram
Udry, Christopher
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description We present results from six randomized control trials of an integrated approach to improve livelihoods among the very poor. The approach combines the transfer of a productive asset with consumption support, training, and coaching plus savings encouragement and health education and/or services. Results from the implementation of the same basic program, adapted to a wide variety of geographic and institutional contexts and with multiple implementing partners, show statistically significant cost-effective impacts on consumption (fueled mostly by increases in self-employment income) and psychosocial status of the targeted households. The impact on the poor households lasted at least a year after all implementation ended. It is possible to make sustainable improvements in the economic status of the poor with a relatively short-term intervention.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Graduation
Livelihoods
Ultra-poverty
Cash transfers
Entrepreneurship
Business training
Business skills
Assets
Social protection
Livestock
 
Contributor Research Support, Innovations for Poverty Action
 
Type Survey data