Securing food, building livelihoods?: A 15-year appraisal of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme

John Hoddinott, Guush Berhane, Daniel Gilligan (), Kalle Hirvonen, Neha Kumar, Jeremy Lind, Rachel Sabates-Wheeler and Alemayehu Taffesse

No wp-2024-76, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: We assess the impact of a large-scale social protection intervention, Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP), over a 15-year period. We find that the PSNP had a positive impact on food security but inconsistent impacts on assets. There were positive impacts on fertilizer use, investments in terracing, and cereal yields but only when the program was twinned with complementary programming. The PSNP enabled households to be more resilient to covariate shocks. There were no adverse incentive effects on labour supply or fertility.

Keywords: Ethiopia; Social protection; Public works; Food security; Assets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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