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No Household Left Behind: Afghanistan Targeting the Ultra Poor Impact Evaluation

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dc.contributor.authorBedoya, Guadalupe
dc.contributor.authorCoville, Aidan
dc.contributor.authorHaushofer, Johannes
dc.contributor.authorIsaqzadeh, Mohammad
dc.contributor.authorShapiro, Jeremy
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-13T20:37:05Z
dc.date.available2019-06-13T20:37:05Z
dc.date.issued2019-06
dc.description.abstractThe share of people living in extreme poverty fell from 36 percent in 1990 to 10 percent in 2015 but has continued to increase in many fragile and conflict-affected areas where half of the extreme poor are expected to reside by 2030. These areas are also where the least evidence exists on how to tackle poverty. This paper investigates whether the Targeting the Ultra Poor program can lift households out of poverty in a fragile context: Afghanistan. In 80 villages in Balkh province, 1,219 of the poorest households were randomly assigned to a treatment or control group. Women in treatment households received a one-off "big-push" package, including a transfer of livestock assets, cash consumption stipend, skills training, and coaching. One year after the program ended -- two years after assets were transferred -- significant and large impacts are found across all the primary pre-specified outcomes: consumption, assets, psychological well-being, total time spent working, financial inclusion, and women's empowerment. Per capita consumption increases by 30 percent (USD 24 purchasing power parity, USD 7 nominal per month) with respect to the control group, and the share of households below the national poverty line decreases from 82 percent in the control group to 62 percent in the treatment group. Using modest assumptions about consumption impacts, the intervention has an estimated internal rate of return of 26 percent, excluding non-monetized improvements in psychological well-being, women's empowerment, and children's health and education. These findings suggest that "big-push" interventions can dramatically reduce poverty in fragile and conflict-affected regions.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/855831560172245349/No-Household-Left-Behind-Afghanistan-Targeting-the-Ultra-Poor-Impact-Evaluation
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-8877
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/31867
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 8877
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectEXTREME POVERTY
dc.subjectBIG PUSH
dc.subjectLABOR SUPPLY
dc.subjectWOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT
dc.subjectFRAGILITY
dc.subjectCONFLICT
dc.subjectVIOLENCE
dc.subjectPOVERTY LINE
dc.subjectPOVERTY REDUCTION
dc.subjectTRANSFERS
dc.titleNo Household Left Behinden
dc.title.subtitleAfghanistan Targeting the Ultra Poor Impact Evaluationen
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.typeDocument de travailfr
dc.typeDocumento de trabajoes
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okr.crossref.titleNo Household Left Behind: Afghanistan Targeting the Ultra Poor Impact Evaluation
okr.date.disclosure2019-06-10
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Policy Research Working Paper
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/855831560172245349/No-Household-Left-Behind-Afghanistan-Targeting-the-Ultra-Poor-Impact-Evaluation
okr.guid855831560172245349
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-8877
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum090224b086d81a17_2_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum31143337
okr.identifier.reportWPS8877
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okr.pdfurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/855831560172245349/pdf/No-Household-Left-Behind-Afghanistan-Targeting-the-Ultra-Poor-Impact-Evaluation.pdfen
okr.region.administrativeSouth Asia
okr.region.countryAfghanistan
okr.statistics.combined6021
okr.statistics.dr855831560172245349
okr.statistics.drstats4761
okr.topicAgriculture::Livestock & Animal Husbandry
okr.topicGender::Gender and Poverty
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Inequality
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Poverty Impact Evaluation
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Poverty Lines
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Poverty Reduction Strategies
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Services & Transfers to Poor
okr.unitDevelopment Impact Evaluation Group, Development Economics
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