This paper assesses the targeting performance of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Nets Programme (PSNP) – a large scale social safety net program that reaches more than one million rural Ethiopian households. Most beneficiary households do public works while a small proportion receive...

Over the last decade, social safety nets (SSNs) have rapidly expanded in Africa, becoming a core strategy for addressing poverty, responding to shocks, increasing productivity and investing in human capital. Poverty, vulnerability and well-being have inherent gender dimensions, yet only recently...

This paper studies the impact of a community-driven development program, District Poverty Initiatives Project (DPIP), implemented in the second largest state in India. In particular, it examines the impact on allocation of Below Poverty Line (BPL) cards that are targeted towards the most...