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Securing food, building livelihoods?: A 15-year appraisal of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme

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  • John Hoddinott
  • Guush Berhane
  • Daniel O. Gilligan
  • Kalle Hirvonen
  • Neha Kumar
  • Jeremy Lind
  • Rachel Sabates-Wheeler
  • Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse

Abstract

We assess the impact of a large-scale social protection intervention, Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP), over a 15-year period. We find that the PSNP had a positive impact on food security but inconsistent impacts on assets. There were positive impacts on fertilizer use, investments in terracing, and cereal yields but only when the program was twinned with complementary programming. The PSNP enabled households to be more resilient to covariate shocks. There were no adverse incentive effects on labour supply or fertility.

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  • John Hoddinott & Guush Berhane & Daniel O. Gilligan & Kalle Hirvonen & Neha Kumar & Jeremy Lind & Rachel Sabates-Wheeler & Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse, 2024. "Securing food, building livelihoods?: A 15-year appraisal of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2024-76, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    • Handle: RePEc:unu:wpaper:wp-2024-76
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