Community-Based Development and Aggregate Shocks in Developing Countries: The Experience of an NGO in Pakistan

Takashi Kurosaki and Hidayat Ullah Khan

No 54, PRIMCED Discussion Paper Series from Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University

Abstract: This paper empirically investigates whether a community-based development (CBD) approach is effective in mitigating the ill effects of aggregate shocks. The analysis is based on a three-year panel dataset of approximately 600 households in rural Pakistan where a local NGO has implemented CBD interventions. The results show that the mitigating effect was absent when the control group included both non-member households in villages under CBD interventions and households in villages without such interventions. On the other hand, within the former type of villages, a strong spillover effect from member to non-member households was found, mitigating the ill effects of aggregate shocks. Furthermore, CBD interventions accompanied by micro infrastructure construction or microcredit provision were found to be effective in mitigating the ill effects. These results suggest the possibility that whether a CBD approach mitigates aggregate shocks depends on the type of intervention and the nature of market failures.

Keywords: community-based development; consumption smoothing; aggregate shocks; microfinance; Pakistan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D12 L31 O12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2014-03
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