The impact of large-scale social protection interventions on grain prices in poor countries: Evidence from Ethiopia

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions, and Markets
cg.contributor.donorUnited States Agency for International Developmenten
cg.contributor.donorDepartment for International Development, United Kingdomen
cg.contributor.donorEuropean Unionen
cg.coverage.countryEthiopia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ET
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africa
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.creator.identifierJohn Hoddinott: 0000-0002-0590-3917
cg.creator.identifierKalle Hirvonen: 0000-0003-2057-1612
cg.creator.identifierBart Minten: 0000-0002-2183-1845
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Development Strategy and Governance Division
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot ranked
cg.number116en
cg.placeWashington, DCen
cg.placeAddis Ababa, Ethiopiaen
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen
dc.contributor.authorHoddinott, John F.en
dc.contributor.authorStifel, Daviden
dc.contributor.authorHirvonen, Kalleen
dc.contributor.authorMinten, Barten
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-21T09:05:21Zen
dc.date.available2024-06-21T09:05:21Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/145922
dc.titleThe impact of large-scale social protection interventions on grain prices in poor countries: Evidence from Ethiopiaen
dcterms.abstractThere has long been concern that cash and in-kind transfers might affect prices in developing country food markets. While there have been a number of studies at highly aggregated levels, much less is known about the effects of cash transfers on local food prices and even less about how they compare to food transfers. We consider this issue in the context of a large social protection intervention, Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme. Using 12 months of price data from 233 localities and controlling for temporal, location, and market characteristics we find: Cash transfers have no effect on food prices. There is some evidence that food transfers reduce food prices. Maize transfers reduce aggregate grain prices, wheat transfers reduce the price of maize, and the negative effect of food transfers on food prices is larger in more remote markets. However, the magnitudes of these effects are trivially small, both in absolute and percentage terms.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationHoddinott, John F.; Stifel, David; Hirvonen, Kalle; and Minten, Bart. 2018.The impact of large-scale social protection interventions on grain prices in poor countries: Evidence from Ethiopia. ESSP Working Paper 116. Washington, DC and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145922en
dcterms.extent26 pagesen
dcterms.isPartOfESSP Working Paperen
dcterms.issued2018-03-22
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
dcterms.publisherEthiopian Development Research Instituteen
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/132348en
dcterms.subjectnutrition policiesen
dcterms.subjectfood policiesen
dcterms.subjectsocial protectionen
dcterms.subjectfood securityen
dcterms.subjectcash transfersen
dcterms.subjectfood pricesen
dcterms.subjectpovertyen
dcterms.typeWorking Paper

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