The document discusses the impact of cash transfer programs on economic activities in sub-Saharan Africa. It summarizes that around half of sub-Saharan countries have government-run cash transfer programs, while most others have programs run by multilateral organizations and NGOs. Impact evaluations in multiple countries have found that cash transfers can increase ownership of livestock and household consumption of own-produced foods, as well as participation in non-farm enterprises, while having mixed effects on labor supply. Simulation models also show cash transfers stimulating local economies through multiplier effects. The document advocates including productive dimensions in cash transfer program design and policy.
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From protection to production: the impact of cash transfer programs on economic activities
1. From Protection to Production:
the impact of cash transfer
programs on economic activities
2. The rise of cash transfers
in sub-Saharan Africa
• Around half sub-Saharan African countries have some
kind of government run cash transfer programme
• Most others have multilateral/NGO run CT
programmes
• Most programmes focus on rural poor
3. Range of designs
• Universal programmes (Old age pensions, child grants)
• Targeted programmes (Focus on ultra poor and other
vulnerabilities)
• Cash for work programmes linked to productive
activities
• Prominent role of community in targeting
• Unconditional (for the most part)
5. Regional effort on CT impact evaluation
coordinated by the Transfer Project
UNICEF, SCUK, UNC and FAO, in coordination with
national governments and partners
1. Regional learning, information exchange and
network/community of practice
2. Technical assistance on design and implementation of
impact evaluation and identification of research areas
3. Synthesis of regional lessons on program design and
impacts
6. Transfer project identified cross country
thematic studies
1. Nutrition and food security
2. Health: use of services, morbidity, nutritional status
3. Education: enrollment, attendance, age of entry
4. Mitigation of HIV risk: sexual behavior and
perceptions
5. Networks of reciprocal exchange
6. Psycho-social status (PSS), mental health, preferences
7. Productive activities and economic growth
7. Cash transfers targeted to poorest of the poor
can have productive impacts
• Beneficiaries in sub-Saharan Africa:
– predominately rural
– most engaged in agriculture
– most work for themselves
• Transfers can:
– relax some of constraints brought on by market failure in
credit and insurance
– lead to multiplier effects in local village economy
– reduce burden on social networks and informal insurance
mechanisms
8. Example: agriculture is fundamental part of
livelihoods of Kenya CT-OVC beneficiaries
• Large majority are agricultural producers
— Over 80% produce crops; over 75% have livestock
• Most grow local maize and beans, using traditional
technology and low levels of modern inputs
• Most have low levels of assets
– few acres of agricultural land, few small animals, basic agricultural tools
and low levels of education
• 16% used credit in 2011
• 1/4 of adults worked in casual wage labor, 1/3 in own non
ag business, 1/5 private transfers
• 42% of children worked on family farm
9. From Protection to Production Project
• Focus on understanding economic impacts of cash
transfer programs
– working with government and development partners in
seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa
– Adds value to ongoing impact evaluations
– Mixed method approach
• Jointly with UNICEF-ESARO
• Primary funding from DFID (2011-2014)
• Under the umbrella of Transfer Project
10. 1. Analysis of household decision making
• Via impact evaluation design, programme impact
on household decisions regarding:
– Asset accumulation, agricultural and non agricultural
productive activities and labor allocation/supply
– Role of home production on food security
– Risk coping strategies
• Finance, design, pilot and supervise
implementation of additional modules in
household surveys
• Preparation of methodological guidelines and
analytical work
11. Household level impact
Kenya CT-OVC and Malawi SCT
i. Increased ownership of small livestock
ii. Greater share of household consumption of cereals,
animal products and other foods produced via own
production
iii. Increased participation in nonfarm enterprise for
female headed households (Kenya)
iv. Mixed results on labor supply
• Malawi:
― Decreased agricultural wage labor and child work off farm, and
― Increased on farm activity by both adults and children
• Kenya:
― Reduction in on farm child labor
12. 2. Simulation of local economy impacts
• Construct village CGE models for cash transfer
program areas
— Capture social and economic structure of village/local
economy, including types of households
— Simulate impact of cash transfer on local economy
• Preparation of methodological guidelines and
analytical work led by Ed Taylor at UC Davis
• Joint funding and dissemination with World Bank
13. How do local economy effects work?
• Immediate impact of transfer will raise purchasing power of
beneficiary households.
• As beneficiary households spend cash, impacts immediately
spread outside beneficiary households to others inside and
outside treated villages, setting in motion income multipliers
• Periodic markets and purchases outside village will shift
income effects to non-treated villages, potentially unleashing
income multipliers there.
• In longer run, as program is scaled up, transfers will have
direct and indirect (or general equilibrium) effects throughout
the region of implementation.
– General equilibrium effects are not captured in randomized impact
evaluation
14. Results from Lesotho
Multiplier Level Change
Total Income
Nominal 2.23 7.38 million
(CI) (2.08 - 2.44) (6.89 - 8.06)
Real 1.36 4.5 million
(CI) (1.25 - 1.45) (4.15 - 4.80)
Total value of transfer: 3.3 million Maloti (US$ 361,000)
Divergence between nominal and real values due to land
and capital supply constraints
15. Effect on Household Incomes
Share of total
Beneficiary (24%) Multiplier benefits
nominal 1.15
real 1.03 76%
Non beneficiary
(76%)
nominal 1.08
real 0.33 24%
Total real multiplier = 1.36
16. Effects on Value of Production
Production multiplier for: Beneficiary Non beneficiary
Crop 0.03 0.15
Livestock 0.02 0.26
Retail 0.07 0.52
Services 0 0.08
Other Production 0 0
TOTAL 0.13 1.01
For every 1 Maloti transferred to beneficiary
households, the value of production earned
by non beneficiary households increases
1.01 Maloti
17. Alternative market structure scenarios
Final scenario Alternative 1 Alternative 2
Elasticity of labor supply High Low Low
Liquidity constraint on
purchased inputs off off on
Total Income multipliers
Real 1.36 1.14 1.02
(CI) ( 1.25- 1.45) ( 1.08- 1.20) ( 0.94- 1.09)
Keeping constraints on land and capital;
Assumptions on market structure come from
qualitative fieldwork and expert opinion
18. Magnitude of local economy
effects depends on
• Size of transfer
• Share of households receiving transfer
• How much of transfer is spent on goods
and services produced within community
• Constraints on supply response by local
producers and traders
19. 3. Community dynamics
• Qualitative field work in each country at
community level
• Focus on economic activities, social networks
and operations
• Integration with quantitative analysis
• Preparation of methodological guidelines, field
work and analysis led by OPM
20. Results from Ghana
(LEAP - targeted to poor households)
i. Food, education and health top priority, then
investment in farming
ii. Lumpier payments encourage investment
iii. Pay down debt
• Increased access to credit, but not always used
iv. Beneficiaries able to re-enter social networks
• They can contribute more, enhancing risk sharing and
expanding coping mechanisms
• Broadens social capital base
v. Local economy stimulated
• More diversified goods available, enhanced labor market
21. Including the productive dimension in
cash transfer programmes
• Success of cash transfer programmes does not
depend on productive impacts—not part of original
objectives
• Yet clear that in context of livelihoods based on self
employment combined with market imperfections/
failures, consumption and production decisions of
beneficiary households are linked
22. Including the productive dimension in
cash transfer programmes
• Contribute to programme design
– Implications for “social” side: you cannot separate from
livelihoods
• Labour allocation
• Intra-household decision making
• Food consumpion, dietary diversity and nutrition
– Cash transfers can contribute to productivity gains
• Through health and education
• Providing liquidity and reducing risk
• Combined with complementary programs
– Link to graduation strategies
23. Including the productive dimension in
cash transfer programmes
• Contribute to policy debate
– Understand overall contribution of CT programs to poverty
reduction in short and long term
– Political economy: more support for CT programs
– Articulation as part of rural/agricultural development strategy
– Bring together sectoral ministries (Ethiopia)
– Social protection and cash transfers will not reduce poverty by itself
– Centrality of improving small holder productivity
– In most of Sub Saharan Africa, for foreseeable future, exit from poverty
not through formal wage labor, as in LAC
24. Extensions
• Child labor
– Understanding Child Work (UNICEF, ILO and World Bank)
– Kenya, Malawi, Lesotho and Zambia
• Climate change adaptation
– Economics and Policy Innovations in Climate-Smart
Agriculture (EPIC) project at FAO
– Malawi
25. Entry points for the future
• Transfer Project unfunded
– Indirectly supported by FAO, EU, UNC and others
– What have we done so far?
• Continual technical assistance
• Annual research workshop
– What’s missing?
• Capacity building with government
• National use of data
• Communications
• Research community of practice
• Cross country thematic studies
– Nutrition and food security
– Mitigation of HIV risk