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Poster, bannerCash transfers: myths vs reality 2016Cash transfers have become a key social protection tool in developing countries and have expanded dramatically in the last two decades. Until now, much of the known evidence of the impacts of transfer programmes has been from conditional programmes implemented in Latin America; however, the impacts of programmes in sub-Saharan Africa, have not been substantially documented. The new FAO and UNICEF book "From Evidence to Action: The Story of Cash Transfers and Impact Evaluation in Sub-Saharan Afr ica" provides new evidence about the effectiveness of cash transfer programmes implemented in eight sub-Saharan African countries. This infographic provides an overview of the misconceptions about cash transfer programmes and how the evidence presented in the book proves them wrong. The evidence points to transformative impacts of such programmes in areas such as improved consumption, school attendance, health, food security, productive activities and agricultural investment. Social protection does not create dependency - a prevailing concern among policy makers – but it rather supports poor people in becoming more productive.
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DocumentPolicy impacts on inequality: Decomposition of Income Inequality by Subgroups 2006
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No results found.This tool illustrates how to decompose inequality measures by subgroups of populations. In particular, it defines the concepts of within and between inequality and analyses how different inequality indexes perform with respect to this decomposition. In particular, the performance of the analysis of variance, the Gini Index and the Theil Index will be discussed. A step-by-step procedure and numerical examples give operational content to the tool. -
DocumentPolicy Impacts on Inequality: Welfare Based Measures of Inequality - The Atkinson Index 2005
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No results found.This tool illustrates one of the most popular welfare-based measures of inequality, the Atkinson Index. In particular, it discusses the foundations of this Index, in terms of social welfare specifications, and the concept of equally distributed equivalent income on which the measure is based. The use of this measure is then exemplified in a step-by step procedure and in a numerical example.
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