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 5 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to design a prototype drought-contingent targeting framework for use in scarce-data contexts. To accomplish this, the paper: (i) develops simple and easy-to-communicate measures of drought shocks; (ii) shows that droughts have a large impact on child stunting in these five countries...

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Baez Ramirez,Javier Eduardo;

Kshirsagar,Varun Sridhar;

Skoufias,Emmanuel;
Document Date
2020/07/28
Document Type
Brief
Report Number
151247
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Africa,
Region
Africa,
Disclosure Date
2020/07/29
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Adaptive Safety Nets for Rural Africa : Drought-Sensitive Targeting with Sparse Data
Keywords
drought

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Baez Ramirez,Javier Eduardo; Kshirsagar,Varun Sridhar; Skoufias,Emmanuel.

Adaptive Safety Nets for Rural Africa : Drought-Sensitive Targeting with Sparse Data (English). Poverty and Equity Note|no. 26 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/448401596001667053

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

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