Cash transfers and psychosocial well-being: evidence from four African countries

"There is reasonable consensus that development ultimately aims to improve people's well-being. Well-being is a final goal in a way that other traditional developmental outcomes—income, expenditure, education, health etc.—are not. Yet the large majority of cash transfer impact evaluations...

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Autores: Attah, Ramlatu, Barca, Valentina, Kardan, Andrew, MacAuslan, Ian, Merttens, Fred, Pellerano, Luca
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:Brasil
Recursos:Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da IPEA (RCIpea)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ipea.gov.br:11058/15195
Acesso em linha:https://repositorio.ipea.gov.br/handle/11058/15195
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Cash transfers
psychosocial
well-being
evidence
African countries
Descrição
Resumo:"There is reasonable consensus that development ultimately aims to improve people's well-being. Well-being is a final goal in a way that other traditional developmental outcomes—income, expenditure, education, health etc.—are not. Yet the large majority of cash transfer impact evaluations focus narrowly on these simpler and relatively easy-to-measure indicators". (…)