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Cash transfers: their economic and productive impacts

Year of publication 2016

Pages 4p.

Author PtoP Team

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

ISBN No ISBN

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This brief summarises the findings of rigorous impact evaluations of seven government-run cash transfer programmes in sub-Saharan Africa. The focus of the evaluations was on economic and productive impacts of the programmes on beneficiaries as well as the wider communities in which they lived.

Language English

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