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| Rashid, Shahidur; Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum. |
| In 2005, Ethiopia implemented a major new social transfer program, the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) that involves some form of work requirement in exchange for either cash or in‐kind transfers (or a mix of the two), with the composition of the transfers administratively set to be uniform throughout the administrative region (wareda). In this paper, we analyze monthly data on cereal prices over 12 years, comparing price movements for areas included in the PSNP with those outside the program. We find statistically significant convergence of prices between PSNP and non‐PSNP waredas over time, but that this convergence began well before the introduction of the PSNP program. This result suggests that the impact of cash transfers in non‐integrated PSNP... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Food Policy; Safety Nets; Co-integration; Agricultural and Food Policy. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51764 |
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