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Cash transfer programmes for managing climate risk: evidence from a randomized experiment in Zambia

Year of publication 2017

Pages 36 p.

Author Solomon Asfaw, Alessandro Carraro, Benjamin Davis, Sudhanshu Handa, David Seidenfeld

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

ISBN No ISBN

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Cash transfer programmes are increasingly being used to combat poverty and hunger as well as to shape the human capital of future generations. Even though most of these programmes are not explicitly designed to help households manage climate risk, there are good reasons to expect that cash transfers can help build household resilience against climatic risk. This study aims to provide an empirical analysis of the effect of weather risk on the welfare of rural households using impact evaluation da ta from the Zambia Child Grant Programme (CGP), together with a set of novel weather variation indicators.

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