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The impact of the Harmonized Social Cash Transfer Programme (HSCT) on the local economy in Zimbabwe

Year of publication 2014

Pages 2 p,

Author Agricultural Development Economics Division

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Local economy-wide impact evaluation (LEWIE) simulation methods are used to assess the likely impacts of cash transfers on the local economy. When the Harmonized Social Cash Transfer Programme gives money to beneficiary households, they spend it, buying goods and services. As this cash swirls around within wards and districts, it creates benefits for non-recipient households as well, who may provide the goods and services purchased by beneficiary households. This study finds that the Zimbabwe HS CT generates a total income multiplier of 1.73 in nominal terms with a confidence interval of 1.42 to 2.00. Each dollar of transfer has the potential to generate 1.73 dollars of total income within the project area.

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