Cash-Plus: Poverty Impacts of Transfer-Based Intervention Alternatives

Richard Sedlmayr, Anuj Shah and Munshi Sulaiman

No 2017-15-2, CSAE Working Paper Series from Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford

Abstract: Can programmatic extensions such as training and mentorship enhance the economic impact of cash transfers, or do they needlessly absorb resources that program recipients could allocate more meaningfully by themselves? Using a randomized trial, we evaluate a program that targets poor Ugandans and offers them an integrated package comprised of lump sum transfers, coaching, and training on microenterprise development as well as savings group formation. We assess its impact and that of its savings component, as well as the impacts of much simplified program variants: one intervention variant that is limited to lump sum cash transfers and another that expands upon transfers using a light-touch behavioral intervention component. The results support the notion that integrated development interventions are sensible poverty reduction tools.

Keywords: graduation; microenterprise; cash transfers; behavioral design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I38 O12 O22 O35 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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