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Poor Households' Productive Investments of Cash Transfers: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Niger

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dc.contributor.authorStoeffler, Quentin
dc.contributor.authorMills, Bradford
dc.contributor.authorPremand, Patrick
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-13T20:46:52Z
dc.date.available2016-10-13T20:46:52Z
dc.date.issued2016-09
dc.description.abstractCash transfer programs have spread rapidly as an instrument to raise household consumption and reduce poverty. Questions remain about the sustainability of cash transfer impacts in low-income settings such as Sub-Saharan Africa and, in particular, on whether cash transfers can foster productive investments in addition to raising immediate consumption among the very poor. This paper presents evidence that a cash transfer project in rural Niger induced investments in assets and productive activities that were sustained among the very poor 18 months after project completion. Results show lasting increases in livestock assets and participation in saving groups (tontines). Cash transfers also contributed to improved agricultural productivity, but no effects in terms of diversification of other household enterprises are found. Productive asset gains are, notably, largest among the poorest of the poor, suggesting that small regular cash transfers combined with enhanced saving mechanisms can relax constraints to asset accumulation among the extreme poor.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/09/26819456/poor-households-productive-investments-cash-transfers-quasi-experimental-evidence-niger
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-7839
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/25155
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 7839
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectcash transfers
dc.subjectproductive assets
dc.subjectinvestment
dc.subjectpoverty
dc.subjectconsumption
dc.subjectsavings groups
dc.titlePoor Households' Productive Investments of Cash Transfersen
dc.title.subtitleQuasi-Experimental Evidence from Nigeren
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.typeDocument de travailfr
dc.typeDocumento de trabajoes
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okr.crossref.titlePoor Households' Productive Investments of Cash Transfers: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Niger
okr.date.disclosure2016-09-27
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Policy Research Working Paper
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/09/26819456/poor-households-productive-investments-cash-transfers-quasi-experimental-evidence-niger
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okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-7839
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum090224b0845c5cf3_2_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum26819456
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okr.region.administrativeAfrica
okr.region.countryNiger
okr.topicMacroeconomics and Economic Growth::Economic Investment & Savings
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Conditional Cash Transfers
okr.topicFinance and Financial Sector Development::Financial Intermediation
okr.topicFinance and Financial Sector Development::Financial Literacy
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Poverty Reduction Strategies
okr.unitSocial Protection and Labor Global Practice Group
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