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Sources of Financial Assistance for Households Suffering an Adult Death in Kagera, Tanzania

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dc.contributor.authorLundberg, Mattias
dc.contributor.authorOver, Mead
dc.contributor.authorMujinja, Phare
dc.date.accessioned2014-08-26T21:59:22Z
dc.date.available2014-08-26T21:59:22Z
dc.date.issued2000-12
dc.description.abstractThe AIDS crisis in Africa and elsewhere compels us to design appropriate assistance policies for households experience a death. Policies should take into account and strengthen existing household coping strategies, rather than duplicate or undermine them. The authors investigate the nature of coping mechanisms among a sample of households in Kagera, Tanzania in 1991-1994. They estimate the magnitude and timing of receipts of private transfers, credits, and public assistance by households with different characteristics. Their empirical strategy addresses three common methodological difficulties in estimating the impact of adult death: selection bias, endogeneity, and unobserved heterogeneity. The authors find that less-poor households (those with more physical and human capital) benefit from larger receipts of private assistance than poor households. Resource-abundant households are wealthy in social assets as well as physical assets. Poor households, on the other hand, rely relatively more on loans than private transfers, for up to a year after a death. This suggests that credit acts as insurance for households where informal interhousehold assistance contracts are not enforceable. A donor in Kagera can be sure that assistance to a wealthy household may not be able to return the favor. Assistance to the poor is more likely to come with more formal arrangements for repayment. Formal-sector assistance is targeted toward the poor immediately following the death. The impact of adult deaths on households may be mitigated either ex ante, through programs that minimize poverty and vulnerability, or ex post, by assistance targeted to the poorest and most vulnerable households. In addition, to the extent to which micro-credit programs improve access and lower the total costs of borrowing, they may not only stimulate growth and investment but also help resource-poor households overcome the impact of an adult death in the areas hard-hit by the AIDS epidemic.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2000/12/828361/sources-financial-assistance-households-suffering-adult-death-kagera-tanzania
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-2508
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/19741
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 2508
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectCAPITA EXPENDITURE
dc.subjectCLINICS
dc.subjectCOMMUNITY LEVEL
dc.subjectCOUNTERFACTUAL
dc.subjectCROWDING OUT
dc.subjectDEVELOPMENT RESEARCH GROUP
dc.subjectDROUGHT
dc.subjectECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subjectEPIDEMICS
dc.subjectEQUALITY
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD INCOME
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD SURVEY
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD-LEVEL
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLDS
dc.subjectIDIOSYNCRATIC SHOCKS
dc.subjectINCOME
dc.subjectINFORMAL INSURANCE
dc.subjectINFORMAL TRANSFERS
dc.subjectINSURANCE
dc.subjectINTERVENTION
dc.subjectPOOR
dc.subjectPOOR HOUSEHOLDS
dc.subjectPRIVATE TRANSFERS
dc.subjectRURAL AREAS
dc.subjectTRAFFIC
dc.subjectTRANSITION ECONOMIES
dc.subjectUNEMPLOYMENT
dc.subjectVILLAGES
dc.titleSources of Financial Assistance for Households Suffering an Adult Death in Kagera, Tanzaniaen
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okr.crossref.titleSources of Financial Assistance for Households Suffering an Adult Death
okr.date.disclosure2000-12-30
okr.date.doiregistration2025-04-10T09:39:51.150083Z
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Policy Research Working Paper
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2000/12/828361/sources-financial-assistance-households-suffering-adult-death-kagera-tanzania
okr.globalpracticeSocial Protection and Labor
okr.globalpracticePoverty
okr.guid977171468760149429
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-2508
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum000094946_0101170531277
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum828361
okr.identifier.reportWPS2508
okr.language.supporteden
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okr.region.administrativeAfrica
okr.region.countryTanzania
okr.themeSocial protection and risk management :: Social safety nets
okr.themeSocial protection and risk management :: Other social protection and risk management
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Safety Nets and Transfers
okr.topicServices and Transfers to Poor
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Rural Poverty Reduction
okr.topicHousing and Human Habitats
okr.unitInfrastructure and Environment, Development Research Group
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