Livestock asset transfers with and without training: Evidence from Rwanda

Jonathan Argent, Britta Augsburg and Imran Rasul

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014, vol. 108, issue C, 19-39

Abstract: We present evidence from Rwanda's Girinka (‘One Cow per Poor Family’) program that has distributed more than 130,000 livestock asset transfers in the form of cows to the rural poor since 2006. Supply side constraints on the program resulted in some beneficiaries receiving complementary training with the cow transfer, and other households not receiving such training with their cow. We exploit these differences to estimate the additional impact of receiving complementary training with the cow transfer, on household's economic outcomes up to six years after having received the livestock asset transfer. Our results show that even in a setting such as rural Rwanda where linkages between farmers and produce markets are weak, the provision of training with asset transfers has permanent and economically significant impacts on milk production, milk yields from livestock, household earnings, and asset accumulation. The results have important implications for the design of ‘ultra-poor’ livestock asset transfer programs being trialled globally as a means to allow the rural poor to better their economic lives.

Keywords: Livestock asset transfer; Training; Ultra-poor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2014.07.008

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