Reaching the Poor and Vulnerable in Africa Through Social Safety Nets

Beegle, Kathleen; Honorati, Maddalena; Monsalve, Emma

doi:10.1596/978-1-4648-1164-7_ch1

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“…The evidence suggests that these can make a significant difference to the quality of life, health and education (e.g., Fisher et al 2017), but even when they are unconditional, they may still have a powerful impact on practices of self-f ormation and selfgovernance (cf. Beegle et al 2018;Devereux et al 2017). Part of this connects to the way that beneficiaries perceive possible requirements, such as punctual behavior, monitoring and evaluation, and continuous behavior, including immunization and primary school attendance for children in participating households.…”

Section: Hararementioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Ethics

Ege¹,

Moser²

2020

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This book delves into the ethical dimension of urban life: how should one live in the city? What constitutes a 'good' life under urban condition? Who gets to live a 'good' life, and whose ideas of morality, propriety and 'good' prevail? What is the connection between the 'good' and the 'just' in urban life?Rather than philosophizing the 'good' and proper life in cities, the book considers what happens when urban conflicts and urban futures are carried out as conflicts over the good and proper life in cities. It offers an understanding of how ethical discourses, ideals and values are harmonized with material interests of different groups, taking up cases studies about environmental protection, co-h ousing schemes, political protest, heritage preservation, participatory planning, collaborative art production, and other topics from different eras and parts of the globe. This book offers multidisciplinary insights, ethnographic research and conceptual tools and resources to explore and better understand such conflicts. It questions the ways in which Urban Ethics draw on tacit moral economies of urban life and the ways in which such moral economies become explicit, political and programmatic.

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Urban Ethics

Ege¹,

Moser²

2020

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“…Social protection programs to combat poverty are now widespread around the world ( International Labour Organization 2021 ). In Africa alone, the number of social protection programs almost tripled in the first 15 years of the twenty-first century ( Cirillo and Tebaldi 2016 ) to the extent that, today, all African countries operate at least one such program ( Beegle, Honorati, and Monsalve 2018 ). Many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have introduced public works programs (PWPs) as one such form of social protection program for fighting poverty and to provide social safety nets in light of different types of income shocks generated by weather (e.g., Ethiopia, India, Malawi, South Africa), rising prices (e.g., Argentina, India, Mexico), and conflict and political instability (e.g., Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone) ( Subbarao et al 2012 ).…”

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Social Protection and Foundational Cognitive Skills during Adolescence: Evidence from a Large Public Works Program

Freund,

Favara,

Porter

et al. 2023

The World Bank Economic Review

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Many low- and middle-income countries have introduced public works programs (PWPs) to fight poverty. This paper provides the first evidence that children from families who benefit from PWPs show increased foundational cognitive skills. The results, based on unique tablet-based data collected as part of a long-standing longitudinal survey, show positive associations between participation in the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) in Ethiopia during childhood with long-term memory and implicit learning, and suggestive evidence for working memory. These associations appear to be strongest for children whose households were still PSNP participants in the year of data collection. Evidence suggests that the association with implicit learning may be operating partially through children's time reallocation away from unpaid labor responsibilities, while the association with long-term memory may in part be due to the program's success in remediating nutritional deficits caused by early-life rainfall shocks.

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“…Social protection programmes that strive to combat poverty are now widespread around the world (International Labour Organization, 2021). In Africa alone, the number of social protection programmes almost tripled in the first 15 years of the 21 st century (Cirillo and Tebaldi, 2016) to the extent that, today, all African countries operate at least one such programme (Beegle et al, 2018). Many low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs) have introduced Public Works Programmes (PWPs) as one such form of social protection programme for fighting poverty and to provide social safety nets in light of different types of income shocks generated by weather (e.g., Ethiopia, India, Malawi, South Africa), rising prices (e.g., Argentina, India, Mexico), and conflict and political instability (e.g., Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone) (Subbarao et al, 2012).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%