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COVID-19 and Food Security in Ethiopia: Do Social Protection Programs Protect?

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dc.contributor.authorAbay, Kibrom A.
dc.contributor.authorBerhane, Guush
dc.contributor.authorHoddinott, John
dc.contributor.authorTafere, Kibrom
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-19T15:17:29Z
dc.date.available2020-11-19T15:17:29Z
dc.date.issued2020-11
dc.description.abstractThis paper assesses the impact of Ethiopia's flagship social protection program, the Productive Safety Net Program on the adverse impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the food and nutrition security of households, mothers, and children. The analysis uses pre-pandemic, in-person household survey data and a post-pandemic phone survey. Two-thirds of the respondents reported that their incomes had fallen after the pandemic began, and almost half reported that their ability to satisfy their food needs had worsened. Employing a household fixed effects difference-in-difference approach, the study finds that household food insecurity increased by 11.7 percentage points and the size of the food gap by 0.47 months in the aftermath of the onset of the pandemic. Participation in the Productive Safety Net Program offsets virtually all of this adverse change -- the likelihood of becoming food insecure increased by only 2.4 percentage points for Productive Safety Net Program households and the duration of the food gap increased by only 0.13 month. The protective role of the program is greater for poorer households and those living in remote areas. The results are robust to various definitions of program participation, different estimators, and different ways of accounting for the non-randomness of mobile phone ownership. Productive Safety Net Program participants were less likely to reduce expenditures on health and education by 7.7 percentage points and less likely to reduce expenditures on agricultural inputs by 13 percentage points. By contrast, mothers' and children's diets changed little, despite some changes in the composition of diets, with consumption of animal source foods declining significantly.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/917941605204533596/COVID-19-and-Food-Security-in-Ethiopia-Do-Social-Protection-Programs-Protect
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-9475
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/34794
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 9475
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectCORONAVIRUS
dc.subjectCOVID-19
dc.subjectSOCIAL PROTECTION
dc.subjectFOOD SECURITY
dc.subjectPANDEMIC RESPONSE
dc.subjectDIET DIVERSITY
dc.subjectPSNP
dc.subjectSAFETY NETS
dc.subjectFOOD GAP
dc.titleCOVID-19 and Food Security in Ethiopiaen
dc.title.subtitleDo Social Protection Programs Protect?en
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.typeDocument de travailfr
dc.typeDocumento de trabajoes
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okr.crossref.titleCOVID-19 and Food Security in Ethiopia: Do Social Protection Programs Protect ?
okr.date.disclosure2020-11-12
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Policy Research Working Paper
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/917941605204533596/COVID-19-and-Food-Security-in-Ethiopia-Do-Social-Protection-Programs-Protect
okr.guid917941605204533596
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-9475
okr.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-9475
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum090224b087fb1da0_1_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum32576779
okr.identifier.reportWPS9475
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okr.pdfurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/917941605204533596/pdf/COVID-19-and-Food-Security-in-Ethiopia-Do-Social-Protection-Programs-Protect.pdfen
okr.region.administrativeAfrica
okr.region.administrativeAfrica Eastern and Southern (AFE)
okr.region.countryEthiopia
okr.statistics.combined3917
okr.statistics.dr917941605204533596
okr.statistics.drstats2365
okr.topicAgriculture::Food Security
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Nutrition
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Services & Transfers to Poor
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Safety Nets and Transfers
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Social Protections & Assistance
okr.unitDevelopment Research Group, Development Economics
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