Can Food-for-Work Programmes Reduce Vulnerability?

Christopher Barrett, Stein Holden () and Daniel C. Clay

No DP2002-24, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Food-for-work (FFW) programmes have been widely heralded as a means of providing self-targeting transfers coupled with investment in public goods. This paper reviews the changing context that has sparked such interest in FFW, the simple theory that makes it so conceptually appealing, and conceptual problems with that simple theory, all illustrated with empirical examples, primarily from east Africa.

Keywords: Economic assistance and foreign aid; Famine; Poverty; Transfer payments; Unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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