Adaptive Safety Nets for Rural Africa : Drought-Sensitive Targeting with Sparse Data (English)

This paper combines remote-sensed data and individual child-, mother-, and household-level data from the Demographic and Health Surveys for five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (Malawi, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) to design a prototype drought-contingent targeting framework that may be used in scarce-data contexts. To accomplish this, the paper: (i) develops simple and easy-to-communicate measures of drought shocks; (ii) shows that...

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Baez,Javier E.;

Kshirsagar,Varun Sridhar;

Skoufias,Emmanuel;
Document Date
2019/12/02
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS9071
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique,
Region
Eastern and Southern Africa,
Disclosure Date
2019/12/02
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Adaptive Safety Nets for Rural Africa : Drought-Sensitive Targeting with Sparse Data

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Baez,Javier E.; Kshirsagar,Varun Sridhar; Skoufias,Emmanuel.

Adaptive Safety Nets for Rural Africa : Drought-Sensitive Targeting with Sparse Data (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 9071 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/104851575303189267

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