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    Poverty alleviation and interhousehold transfers : evidence from BRAC's graduation program in Bangladesh (2020)
    [Washington, DC, USA] : World Bank Group, Development Economics, Knowledge and Strategy Team
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    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 62 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 9467
    Content: Poor households often rely on transfers from their social networks for consumption smoothing, yet there is limited evidence on how antipoverty programs affect informal transfers. This paper exploits the randomized roll-out of BRAC's ultra-poor graduation program in Bangladesh and panel data covering over 21,000 households over seven years to study the program's effects on interhousehold transfers. The program crowds out informal transfers received by the program's beneficiaries, but this is driven mainly by outside-village transfers. Treated ultra-poor households become more likely to both give and receive transfers to/from wealthier households within their communities; and less likely to receive transfers from their employers. As a result, the reciprocity of their within-village transfers increases. The findings imply that, within rural communities, there is positive assortative matching by socio-economic status. A reduction in poverty enables households to engage more in reciprocal transfer arrangements and lowers the interlinkage of their labor with informal insurance
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Gulesci, Selim Poverty Alleviation and Interhousehold Transfers: Evidence from BRAC's Graduation Program in Bangladesh Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2020
    Language: English
    Keywords: Graue Literatur
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-9467
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    Women's Empowerment in Action : Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa (2017)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    UID:
    b3kat_BV048268791
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Other papers
    Content: Women in developing countries are disempowered: high youth unemployment, early marriage and childbearing interact to limit their investments into human capital and enforce dependence on men. The authors evaluate a multi-faceted policy intervention attempting to jumpstart adolescent women's empowerment in Uganda, a context in which 60 percent of the population are aged below twenty. The intervention aims to relax human capital constraints that adolescent girls face by simultaneously providing them vocational training and information on sex, reproduction and marriage. The authors find that four years post-intervention, adolescent girls in treated communities are 48 percent more likely to engage in income generating activities, an impact almost entirely driven by their greater engagement in self-employment. Teen pregnancy falls by 34 percent, and early entry into marriage/cohabitation falls by 62 percent. Strikingly, the share of girls reporting sex against their will drops by close to a third and aspired ages at which to marry and start childbearing move forward. The results highlight the potential of a multi-faceted program that provides skills transfers as a viable and cost-effective policy intervention to improve the economic and social empowerment of adolescent girls over a four year horizon
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/28282
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    Empowering Adolescent Girls : Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Uganda (2012)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    b3kat_BV048269055
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Other papers
    Content: Nearly 60 percent of Uganda's population is aged below twenty. This generation faces health and economic challenges associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), early pregnancy, and unemployment. Whether these challenges are due to a lack of information and or vocational skills is however uncertain. A programme was conducted to provide: (i) vocational training to run small-scale enterprises; and (ii) information on health and risky behaviors. The programme conducted, positively impacts behaviors on both economic and health margins. On economic margins, the intervention raises the likelihood that girls engage in income generating activities by 32 percent mainly driven by increased participation in self-employment. On health related margins, self-reported routine condom usage increases by 50 percent among the sexually active, and the probability of having a child decreases by 26 percent. Strikingly, the share of girls reporting sex against their will drops from 21 percent to almost zero. The findings suggest combined interventions might be more effective among adolescent girls than single-pronged interventions aiming to improve labor market outcomes solely through vocational training, or to change risky behaviors solely through education programmes
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/25529
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    Evaluation of an Adolescent Development Program for Girls in Tanzania (2017)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    UID:
    b3kat_BV048269226
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (25 p)
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Content: This paper evaluates a program targeted to adolescent girls in Tanzania that aims to empower them economically as well as socially. The program was found to be highly successful in Uganda in terms of economic, health, and social outcomes. In contrast, this evaluation finds that the program did not have any notable effect on most of these outcomes in the Tanzanian setting. The evaluation also measures the impact of the program with and without microcredit services. The findings show that the addition of microcredit improves the take-up of the program and savings of the participants. The paper explores programmatic implementation information that helps explain the marked difference in outcomes between Uganda and Tanzania. This research shows that layering additional microfinance services onto an adolescent development program can be an effective tool to attain greater inclusion of youth in financial services, and brings out important issues of the generalizability of the research findings
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Buehren, Niklas Evaluation of an Adolescent Development Program for Girls in Tanzania Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2017
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-7961
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    Poverty Alleviation and Interhousehold Transfers : Evidence from BRAC's Graduation Program in Bangladesh (2020)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    UID:
    b3kat_BV048274906
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (62 Seiten)
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Content: Poor households often rely on transfers from their social networks for consumption smoothing, yet there is limited evidence on how antipoverty programs affect informal transfers. This paper exploits the randomized roll-out of BRAC's ultra-poor graduation program in Bangladesh and panel data covering over 21,000 households over seven years to study the program's effects on interhousehold transfers. The program crowds out informal transfers received by the program's beneficiaries, but this is driven mainly by outside-village transfers. Treated ultra-poor households become more likely to both give and receive transfers to/from wealthier households within their communities; and less likely to receive transfers from their employers. As a result, the reciprocity of their within-village transfers increases. The findings imply that, within rural communities, there is positive assortative matching by socio-economic status. A reduction in poverty enables households to engage more in reciprocal transfer arrangements and lowers the interlinkage of their labor with informal insurance
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Gulesci, Selim Poverty Alleviation and Interhousehold Transfers: Evidence from BRAC's Graduation Program in Bangladesh Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2020
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-9467
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    Can Youth Empowerment Programs Reduce Violence against Girls during the COVID-19 Pandemic? (2021)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    UID:
    b3kat_BV049081943
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (25 Seiten)
    Content: This paper shows that a youth empowerment program in Bolivia reduces the prevalence of violence against girls during the COVID-19 lockdown. The program offers training in soft skills and technical skills, sex education, mentoring, and job-finding assistance. To measure the effects of the program, the study conducts a randomized control trial with 600 vulnerable adolescents. The results indicate that seven months after its completion, the program increased girls' earnings and decreased violence targeting females. Violence is measured with both direct self-report questions and list experiments. These findings suggest that empowerment programs can reduce the level of violence experienced by young females during high-risk periods
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-9547
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    Can Youth Empowerment Programs Reduce Violence against Girls during the COVID-19 Pandemic? / (2021)
    Washington, D.C. :The World Bank,
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    UID:
    edoccha_9959780145902883
    Format: 1 online resource (25 pages)
    Series Statement: Policy research working papers.
    Content: This paper shows that a youth empowerment program in Bolivia reduces the prevalence of violence against girls during the COVID-19 lockdown. The program offers training in soft skills and technical skills, sex education, mentoring, and job-finding assistance. To measure the effects of the program, the study conducts a randomized control trial with 600 vulnerable adolescents. The results indicate that seven months after its completion, the program increased girls' earnings and decreased violence targeting females. Violence is measured with both direct self-report questions and list experiments. These findings suggest that empowerment programs can reduce the level of violence experienced by young females during high-risk periods.
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-9547
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    Can Youth Empowerment Programs Reduce Violence against Girls during the COVID-19 Pandemic? / (2021)
    Washington, D.C. :The World Bank,
    Details
    UID:
    edocfu_9959780145902883
    Format: 1 online resource (25 pages)
    Series Statement: Policy research working papers.
    Content: This paper shows that a youth empowerment program in Bolivia reduces the prevalence of violence against girls during the COVID-19 lockdown. The program offers training in soft skills and technical skills, sex education, mentoring, and job-finding assistance. To measure the effects of the program, the study conducts a randomized control trial with 600 vulnerable adolescents. The results indicate that seven months after its completion, the program increased girls' earnings and decreased violence targeting females. Violence is measured with both direct self-report questions and list experiments. These findings suggest that empowerment programs can reduce the level of violence experienced by young females during high-risk periods.
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-9547
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  • 9
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    Poverty Alleviation and Interhousehold Transfers : Evidence from BRAC's Graduation Program in Bangladesh (2020)
    Washington, D.C. :The World Bank,
    Details
    UID:
    edoccha_9959727704602883
    Format: 1 online resource (62 pages)
    Series Statement: Policy research working papers.
    Content: Poor households often rely on transfers from their social networks for consumption smoothing, yet there is limited evidence on how antipoverty programs affect informal transfers. This paper exploits the randomized roll-out of BRAC's ultra-poor graduation program in Bangladesh and panel data covering over 21,000 households over seven years to study the program's effects on interhousehold transfers. The program crowds out informal transfers received by the program's beneficiaries, but this is driven mainly by outside-village transfers. Treated ultra-poor households become more likely to both give and receive transfers to/from wealthier households within their communities; and less likely to receive transfers from their employers. As a result, the reciprocity of their within-village transfers increases. The findings imply that, within rural communities, there is positive assortative matching by socio-economic status. A reduction in poverty enables households to engage more in reciprocal transfer arrangements and lowers the interlinkage of their labor with informal insurance.
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-9467
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    Poverty Alleviation and Interhousehold Transfers : Evidence from BRAC's Graduation Program in Bangladesh (2020)
    Washington, D.C. :The World Bank,
    Details
    UID:
    edocfu_9959727704602883
    Format: 1 online resource (62 pages)
    Series Statement: Policy research working papers.
    Content: Poor households often rely on transfers from their social networks for consumption smoothing, yet there is limited evidence on how antipoverty programs affect informal transfers. This paper exploits the randomized roll-out of BRAC's ultra-poor graduation program in Bangladesh and panel data covering over 21,000 households over seven years to study the program's effects on interhousehold transfers. The program crowds out informal transfers received by the program's beneficiaries, but this is driven mainly by outside-village transfers. Treated ultra-poor households become more likely to both give and receive transfers to/from wealthier households within their communities; and less likely to receive transfers from their employers. As a result, the reciprocity of their within-village transfers increases. The findings imply that, within rural communities, there is positive assortative matching by socio-economic status. A reduction in poverty enables households to engage more in reciprocal transfer arrangements and lowers the interlinkage of their labor with informal insurance.
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-9467
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