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The Impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme and its Linkages

Year: 2009

Type: article

Abstract: This paper assesses the impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Nets Programme (PSNP), the largest social protection programme in sub-Saharan Africa outside of South Africa. Using propensity score matching techniques, we find that the programme has little impact on participants on average, due in part to transfer levels that fell far below programme targets. Participants with access to both the PSNP and packages of agricultural support are more likely to be food secure, to borrow for productive purposes, use improved agricultural technologies, and operate non-farm own business activities. However, beneficiaries did not experience faster asset growth.

Source: The Journal of Development Studies

DOI: 10.1080/00220380902935907

Authors: Daniel O. Gilligan, John Hoddinott, Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse

Institution: International Food Policy Research Institute

Language: English

Topic: Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

Subfield: Safety Research

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: No poverty, Decent work and economic growth, Zero hunger

Open Access status: green

Funders: World Bank Group, University of Oxford, Bundesamt für Gesundheit, Addis Ababa University