Institutionalized conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs may affect pre-existing, informal safety nets such as inter-household transfers and trust among community members. This study reports on a randomized...
This paper examines the impacts of devolving authority for public resource allocation to local governments in a setting of limited electoral control. Such a setting differs from that assumed by seminal...
How does a locally-managed conditional cash transfer program impact trust in government? On the one hand, delivering monetary benefits and increasing interactions with government officials (elected and...
How do conditional cash transfers impact health-related outcomes? This paper examines the 2010 randomized introduction of a program in Tanzania and finds nuanced impacts. An initial surge in clinic visits...
This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study entitled, Community-based conditional cash transfers in Tanzania : results from a randomized trial, conducted since 2010 in Tanzania...
Given the success of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs elsewhere in the world, in 2010 the Government of Tanzania - via the Tanzania Social Action Fund (TASAF) rolled out a CCT program in three...
In Tanzania, an innovative conditional cash transfer program that relies on local communities to administer the payments has succeeded in helping the country's poorest citizens. But these programs generally...
Given the success of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs elsewhere in the world, in 2010 the Government of Tanzania, via the Tanzania Social Action Fund (TASAF), rolled out a CCT program in three...
This report draws deeply on the extraordinary efforts and innovations demonstrated by early child development policy makers around Brazil. This report draws on background papers about innovations in early...
This newsletter includes the following headings: a knowledge legacy, by Makhtar Diop; Sao Paulo city study, by Kenyon, Thomas; impact of shocks and social protection: some reflections from the analysis...
This report draws deeply on the extraordinary efforts and innovations demonstrated by early child development policy makers around Brazil. This report draws on background papers about innovations in early...
What drives governments with similar revenues to publicly provide very different amounts of goods for which private substitutes are available? Key examples are education and health care. This paper compares...
在发展中国家的供水和排水部门引进私营部门参与(PSP)是困难的和有争议的。对私营部门参与效果进行的实证研究数量很少,一般也都没有明确的结论。案例研究往往发现该部门在私有化之后有所改善,但这种研究都有选择偏向问题,并且很难归纳它们的研究结果。为了用实证方法探讨PSP对覆盖面产生的影响,Clarke、Kosec和Wallsten利用阿根廷、玻利维亚和巴西的家计调查数据,建立了一个有关市级和省级连接供水和排水服务的新数据集。他们在这些历经数年才完成的家计调查的基础上,编制了引入PSP之前和之后的数据,以及从未私有化的类似(对照)地区的数据。他们的分析揭示,一般来说,在引入PSP之后,接入管道水和排水系统的比例有所提高,符合案例研究文献的结论。但作者还发现,对照地区的接入比例也同样提高了,表明这种改善不一定是PSP的作用。另外,在引入PSP的地区和对照地区,最贫困家庭的接入率往往也有所提高,表明(至少在接入方面)PSP没有伤害贫困人口。