Social Transfers and Growth: What Do We Know? What Do We Need to Find Out?

Barrientos, Armando

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.05.012

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“…More positively, the findings add to the growing body of evidence suggesting that antipoverty transfer programmes can be a powerful instrument helping households to overcome constraints in the allocation of their productive resources (Ardington, Case, & Hosegood, 2009;Barrientos, 2012). An important finding from this analysis is that the impact of Familias en Accion on labour market outcomes is heterogeneous across categories of household composition.…”

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Antipoverty Transfers and Labour Market Outcomes: Regression Discontinuity Design Findings

Barrientos

Villa

2015

The Journal of Development Studies

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The article estimates the impact of Familias en Acción, a human development conditional cash transfer programme, on adult labour market outcomes in urban areas in Colombia. Relying on a regression discontinuity design and a large panel dataset, the article finds significant, largely positive, but heterogeneous programme effects on labour market outcomes. The findings suggest that antipoverty transfers enable a re-allocation of household productive resources among participant households.

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Antipoverty Transfers and Labour Market Outcomes: Regression Discontinuity Design Findings

Barrientos

Villa

2015

The Journal of Development Studies

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“…Safety nets can overcome constraints on growth stemming from community-level factors, such as poor or absent local infrastructure or scarcity of local liquidity and trade; such effects are believed to be strongest in the case of localized "poverty traps" (Barrientos 2012). Evidence that safety net programs change income growth directly in the affected areas is available for China (Ravallion and Chen 2005) and Mexico (Angelucci and de Georgi 2009) and is being increasingly sought in Africa, East and South Asia.…”

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“…1 This paper covers a very different set of studies compared to a paper on a similar topic by Barrientos (2012); most of these additional studies have just been published or are forthcoming: this shows how dynamic this area of research is. 2 These are presented to illustrate prospective pathways; the paper is not a comprehensive review of any instruments such as offered by Fiszbein and Schady (2009) for conditional cash transfers.…”

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How Can Safety Nets Contribute to Economic Growth?

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Yemtsov²

2013

Policy Research Working Papers

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“…The impact of transfer programs on micro level growth among poor and poorest groups as it is unlikely that they could influence aggregate GDP growth. The basic framework mapped out the potential linkages existing between social transfers, growth mediating processes and outcomes relating to the productive capacity of households in poverty (Barrientos 2012).…”

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Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) as Social Safety Net: Analysis of Public Works in Odisha, India

Das

2016

Review of Economic Perspectives

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Social safety nets are transfers targeted to the poor or vulnerable. They facilitate access to health and education services to build human capital. To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (earlier known as Millennium Development Goals), national and state governments as well as international organisations have focused on increasing the investments in social transfer programmes. Public works are the policy instruments for mitigating the negative effects of climatic and systematic risks on poor farmers and unskilled and semi-skilled workers. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is the largest social protection programme in the world that provides 100 days of unskilled wage employment to any household residing in rural areas whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. In the state of Odisha the MGNREGA scheme is widely implemented. However, the irregularities involved in the implementation of this social protection programme are of great concern. The present study focuses on the implementation of MGNREGA in three districts of western Odisha. The study has tried to identify the bottleneck in the success of MGNREGA scheme.

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Social Transfers and Growth: What Do We Know? What Do We Need to Find Out?

Cited by 81 publications

References 34 publications

Antipoverty Transfers and Labour Market Outcomes: Regression Discontinuity Design Findings

Antipoverty Transfers and Labour Market Outcomes: Regression Discontinuity Design Findings

How Can Safety Nets Contribute to Economic Growth?

Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) as Social Safety Net: Analysis of Public Works in Odisha, India

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