Authors
Benjamin Davis, Marie Gaarder, Sudhanshu Handa, Jenn Yablonski
Publication date
2012/3/1
Journal
Journal of development effectiveness
Volume
4
Issue
1
Pages
1-8
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Description
The conditional cash transfer revolution in Latin America and the Caribbean, beginning in the mid-1990s and continuing to this day, heralded a new prominence and acceptance of applying rigorous impact evaluations to social programmes. Over the last decade, sub-Saharan Africa has begun its own cash transfer revolution, and has followed a similar pattern of rigorous impact evaluation: in no fewer than 12 countries rigorous impact evaluations have been carried out or commissioned on government-run cash transfer programmes in the last few years. This paper describes how unique characteristics of the sub-Saharan African context both shape the design of cash transfer programmes and present special challenges to evaluating impact. It introduces the results of five papers in this special issue which draw on what could be considered the first generation of cash transfer impact evaluations in the region. It then …
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B Davis, M Gaarder, S Handa, J Yablonski - Journal of development effectiveness, 2012