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Comparing cash and food transfers


The Impact of Cash Transfers - Economic Security Project

Cash transfers are among the most studied anti-poverty interventions. Experiments around the world demonstrate that cash leads to educational achievement ...

Overview on Existing Research on Cash Transfers | GiveDirectly

Summarizing the results of these studies is a difficult task –– in part because the whole point of cash transfers is to give different people ...

Evidence from a Mobile Money Cash Transfer Experiment in Niger

Overall, the results paint a picture of more diverse uses of the cash transfer by Zap households, primarily for food items. Households in Zap villages purchased ...

Cash or Cow? Weighing Monetary vs. In-Kind Asset Transfer - CGAP

Cash transfers are generally more economical for governments than in-kind transfers. When made electronically, they also reduce the risk of corruption.

Doing cash differently - Center for Global Development

four-country study comparing cash transfers and food aid found that 18% more people could be assisted at no extra cost if everyone received cash instead of food ...

Why does in-kind assistance persist when evidence favors cash ...

Now, the economist acknowledges that cash and in-kind transfers have a similar effect when in-kind is inframarginal (or when low amount of food ...

State of evidence on humanitarian cash transfers - ODI

RCT studies have compared different forms of assistance (mainly cash and food aid) and different ways of transferring cash (via mobile phones or envelopes).2.

Can Cash Transfers to Non-Poor Households Prevent Poverty?

Comparing Cash Transfers Effects on Poor and Non-Poor Families ... In the case of food spending and food security, the results are also ...

Where is the “Education” in Conditional Cash Transfers in Education?

The evaluation also compared the effect of food consumption and nutrition in the two groups. Ahmed and del Ninno also used two-stage regression analysis to ...

Effects of unconditional cash transfers on the outcome of treatment ...

Specifically, within the household the cash would decrease intra-household sharing of the RUTF and improve the food diversity and consumption.

The Short-term Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers to the Poor

Monthly transfers are more likely than lump-sum transfers to improve food ... Aker, Jenny C., ''Comparing Cash and Voucher Transfers in a Humanitarian.

Testing Paternalism: Cash versus In-Kind Transfers - jstor

compared to cash, using a randomized controlled trial of Mexico's food assistance program. In relation to total food consumption, the in-kind transfer was ...

Cash-based transfers - FAO Knowledge Repository

Cash and vouchers play a critical role in FAO's response to shocks and crises when farmers, pastoralists and fishers can no longer buy food or the productive ...

Cash transfers: what does the evidence say? - AWS

... food assistance and cash transfers in Burkina Faso © EC/ECHO/Anouk ... comparing a CCT to a UCT, six find (somewhat) bigger impacts for education and ...

An evaluation of World Vision's Cash and Food Transfers Pilot Project

A further 2,672 households received full food rations and acted as a control group against which to compare impacts. Cash transfers were provided by World ...

Effects of family income and conditional cash transfers on household ...

PBF, Bolsa Família (cash transfer programme). χ 2 test comparing proportion of food (in)security and test t comparing mean of household ...

International Evidence to Inform Decision Making on Implementing ...

compared cash transfers to food parcels found that cash transfers ... Our Daily Bread : What is the Evidence on Comparing Cash versus. Food ...

Explaining the Food Stamp Cash-Out Puzzle: Introduction

Empirical studies, however, have universally agreed that large effects of food stamps on food spend- ing, compared with the effect of other income, coexist with ...

Benchmarking a Nutrition Program Against Cash Transfers in Rwanda

How do standard development programs compare to just giving people cash? In Rwanda, researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to shed light on this ...

The impact of cash and food transfers - Evidence from a randomized ...

There is little rigorous evidence on the comparative impacts of cash and food transfers on food security and food-related outcomes. We ...