Chinese development assistance and household welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa

Martorano, Bruno; Metzger, Laura; Sanfilippo, Marco

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.104909

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“…Some studies reported that having at least one child can affect a household's food security ( 33 – 37 ). About 28% of households who have at least one child faced very low food security, which shows the importance of the attention to these households in food aid programs by policymakers and governmental institutions ( 38 , 39 ). About two-thirds of children of the participating households (about 67%) faced low and very low food security.…”

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Assessing the association of sustainable agriculture with rural household food security (considering ecological, economic, and social aspects)

Sahraei

Pakravan-Charvadeh²,

Gholamrezai³

et al. 2022

Front. Nutr.

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Due to the importance of sustainability in the world, we follow the missing pieces of the puzzle of sustainable agriculture and food security as a huge gap in the literature. To achieve this goal, a survey was analyzed to assess the linkage between these two concepts in the rural areas in Lorestan province in Iran. The status of food security was assessed using US Household Food Security Survey Module (HFSSM). A standard questionnaire extracted from the related literature was applied to calculate sustainability indicators. The results showed that the status of food security among households with no children (70%) was better than those with one or more children (28%). According to the Tobit model, none of the sustainability dimensions had a significant association with food insecurity. The results support the fact that the assessment of agricultural sustainability at the microeconomic level, short-term period, and a small, specified location cannot lead to reliable results due to the similar behaviors of farmers in these areas. The low level of agricultural sustainability is due to the lack of macroeconomic policies in the region to promote and disseminate the principles of sustainability, lack of plans and actions to promote sustainability by stakeholders and policymakers, ignorance of the target community, as subsistence producers who fall into a deprivation trap. The results suggest that policymakers should use two short-term and long-term strategies to improve the level of agricultural sustainability and increase food security status.

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Assessing the association of sustainable agriculture with rural household food security (considering ecological, economic, and social aspects)

Sahraei

Pakravan-Charvadeh²,

Gholamrezai³

et al. 2022

Front. Nutr.

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“…However, location coordinates of each cluster can be used to generate an artificial panel based on clusters' proximity. To do so, we follow Martorano et al 58 The strategy consists in matching clusters from different survey rounds (ie, 2008 and 2014) that share latitude and longitude coordinates up to the first decimal unit (or an area of approximately 50 km in radius). A total of 616 artificial areas were obtained through this method.…”

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Impact of mobile phones on HIV public stigma: a cross-sectional and pseudo-panel analysis from Ghana

Iacoella

Gassmann

Tirivayi³

2022

BMJ Open

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ObjectiveHIV-related stigma still remains a major barrier to testing and a significant burden for people living with HIV (PLWH) in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper investigates how mobile phone ownership can influence HIV-related stigma.DesignThis is an observational study using both cross-sectional and pseudo-panel data. Analysis is conducted at both community and individual levels.SettingThe analysis is run for the country of Ghana using data from 2008 and 2014.ParticipantsIndividual-level and household-level data were obtained from Ghana’s Demographic and Health Survey.Primary and secondary outcome measuresThe analysis measures the impact of mobile phone ownership on prejudice against people with HIV. Secondary outcomes are knowledge of HIV, which is included as a mediating element.ResultsCommunity-level analysis finds that a 10% increase in the share of mobile phone owners reduces the prevalence of discriminatory attitudes towards PLWH/AIDS by up to 3%. Results are consistent at the individual level. Additionally, mobile phone-enabled HIV knowledge is found to mediate about 26% of the effect of mobile phones on public stigma.ConclusionsThese findings shed light on the role played by access to mobile technology on HIV-related stigma and discrimination and can support the development of future awareness raising and health communication campaigns in Ghana and other West African countries.

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“…Furthermore, if we expand our perspective beyond the one woman to all of the world's extreme poor, then cash transfers likely become too expensive to be a sustainable answer for singlehandedly ending global poverty. 5 (Relatedly, Hanna and Olken in this symposium discuss the tax implications of implementing a universal basic income program versus a cheaper targeted transfer program. )…”

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“… Martinez (2014, 2018) find similar mid-term evidence from Uganda's Youth Opportunity Program, but that in the longer run (nine years) the control and treatment groups converge in employment, earnings, and consumption 5. Asset transfer programs, or "ultra-poor graduation" programs, get closer to filling the broad set of needs necessary for a permanent escape from poverty, and have been shown to have very significant positive impacts on household income (BRAC 2013;Banerjee, Duflo, Chattopadhyay, and Shapiro 2016; Bandiera et al 2017).…”

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Ending Global Poverty: Why Money Isn’t Enough

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Pande²

2018

Journal of Economic Perspectives

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Between 1981 and 2013, the share of the global population living in extreme poverty fell by 34 percentage points. This paper argues that such rapid reductions will become increasingly hard to achieve for two reasons. First, the majority of the poor now live in middle-income countries where the benefits of growth have often been distributed selectively and unequally. Second, a reservoir of extreme poverty remains in low-income countries where growth is erratic and aid often fails to reach the poor. If the international community is to most effectively leverage available resources to end extreme poverty, it must ensure that its investments in institutions and physical infrastructure actually provide the poor the capabilities they need to craft an effective pathway out of poverty. We term the human and social systems that are required to form this pathway “invisible infrastructure” and argue that an effective domestic state is central to building this. By corollary, ending extreme poverty will require both expanding state capacity and giving the poor power to demand reforms they need by solving agency problems between citizens, politicians, and bureaucrats.

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Chinese development assistance and household welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa

Cited by 42 publications

References 53 publications

Assessing the association of sustainable agriculture with rural household food security (considering ecological, economic, and social aspects)

Assessing the association of sustainable agriculture with rural household food security (considering ecological, economic, and social aspects)

Impact of mobile phones on HIV public stigma: a cross-sectional and pseudo-panel analysis from Ghana

Ending Global Poverty: Why Money Isn’t Enough

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