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

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  • Richard Sedlmayr
  • Anuj Shah
  • Munshi Sulaiman

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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.

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  • Richard Sedlmayr & Anuj Shah & Munshi Sulaiman, 2017. "Cash-Plus: Poverty Impacts of Transfer-Based Intervention Alternatives," CSAE Working Paper Series 2017-15-2, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
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    1. Beuermann, Diether & Ramos Bonilla, Andrea & Stampini, Marco, 2024. "Can Conditional Cash Transfers Alter the Effectiveness of Other Human Capital Development Policies?," IDB Publications (Working Papers) 13484, Inter-American Development Bank.
    2. Sedlmayr, Richard, 2018. "Rewarding Poverty Alleviation: A Case Study in Payment-by-Results," SocArXiv hdr78, Center for Open Science.
    3. Saugato Datta & Joshua Martin & Catherine MacLeod & Laura B. Rawlings & Andrea Vermehren, 2024. "Do Behavioral Interventions Enhance the Effects of Cash on Early Childhood Development and Its Determinants? Evidence from a Cluster-Randomized Trial in Madagascar," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 36(2), pages 327-354, April.

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    Keywords

    graduation; microenterprise; cash transfers; behavioral design;
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    JEL classification:

    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • O22 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - Project Analysis
    • O35 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Social Innovation
    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs

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