The Impacts of Cash Transfers on Women’s Empowerment: Learning from Pakistan’s BISP Program

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The Impacts of Cash Transfers on Women’s Empowerment: Learning from Pakistan’s BISP Program

dc.contributor.author	Ambler, Kate
dc.contributor.author	De Brauw, Alan
dc.date.accessioned	2017-03-15T19:23:14Z
dc.date.available	2017-03-15T19:23:14Z
dc.date.issued	2017-02
dc.description.abstract	Large-scale government cash transfer programs have become an important element of social protection and poverty reduction strategies throughout the developing world. Pakistan is no exception; in 2008, Pakistan established the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) as an unconditional cash transfer targeted at the poorest of the poor. The primary goal of the BISP program is to provide the poorest households in Pakistan with unconditional transfers in order to improve their consumption and investments in children. To attain this goal, it is believed important that the transfers are provided directly to women to ensure the funds are spent as intended. Beyond changes in consumption and investment, directing these transfers to women can also serve to empower women by increasing household resources under their control. We analyze the impacts of Pakistan’s BISP program on women’s decision-making power within households using data collected between 2011 and 2013 as the program was rolling out. Using fuzzy regression discontinuity methods to statistically identify impacts, the BISP transfer is found to have substantial, positive impacts on some variables measuring women’s decision-making power and empowerment.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/840271488779553030/The-impacts-of-cash-transfers-on-women-s-empowerment-learning-from-Pakistan-s-BISP-program
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/26272
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/26272
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Social Protection and Labor Discussion Paper;No. 1702
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	cash transfers
dc.subject	empowerment
dc.subject	empowering women
dc.subject	gender
dc.subject	poverty measurement
dc.subject	gender inequality
dc.title	The Impacts of Cash Transfers on Women’s Empowerment	en
dc.title.subtitle	Learning from Pakistan’s BISP Program	en
dc.type	Working Paper	en
dc.type	Document de travail	fr
dc.type	Documento de trabajo	es
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okr.crossref.title	The Impacts of Cash Transfers on Women’s Empowerment
okr.date.disclosure	2017-03-06
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Working Paper
okr.docurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/840271488779553030/The-impacts-of-cash-transfers-on-women-s-empowerment-learning-from-Pakistan-s-BISP-program
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okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/26272
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okr.identifier.report	113161
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okr.pdfurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/840271488779553030/pdf/113161-WP-P103160-PUBLIC-Social-Protection-Labor-no-1702.pdf	en
okr.region.administrative	South Asia
okr.region.country	Pakistan
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor
okr.topic	Gender::Gender and Poverty
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Achieving Shared Growth
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Inequality
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Pro-Poor Growth
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor::Social Protections & Assistance
okr.unit	Social Protection & Labor SAR (GSP06)