ESSP Working Paper 125, by Kalle Hirvonen and John Hoddinott. Abstract: Economists typically default to the assumption that cash is always preferable to an in-kind transfer.
Targeting Social Transfers in Pastoralist Societies: Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme Revisited
ESSP Working Paper 124, by Jeremy Lind, Rachel Sabates-Wheeler, John Hoddinott and Alemayehu S. Taffesse. Abstract: In the Ethiopian highlands, the PSNP is a successful social safety net intervention
Shocks, social protection, and resilience: Evidence from Ethiopia
ESSP Working Paper 109, by Erwin Knippenberg and John F. Hoddinott. Abstract:The malign effect of shocks has long been a concern within economics, partly because they result in transitory welfare losses and partly because they may have persistent effects.
Social protection – key to drought resilience?
ESSP's Guush Berhane was part of a panel discussion organized by German Development Institute (GDI/DIE) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)in Bonn/Germany on May 31st, 2017
Shocks, social protection and resilience: Evidence from Ethiopia
A presentation on "Shocks, social protection and resilience: Evidence from Ethiopia" was given by Erwin Knippenberg (co-authored by John Hoddinott) of Cornell University