The Impacts of Cash Transfers on Women’s Empowerment : Learning from Pakistan’s BISP Program
Large-scale government cash transfer programs have become an important element of social protection and poverty reduction strategies throughout the developing world. Pakistan is no exception; in 2008, Pakistan established the Benazir Income Support...
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okr-10986-262722021-05-25T08:58:29Z The Impacts of Cash Transfers on Women’s Empowerment : Learning from Pakistan’s BISP Program Ambler, Kate De Brauw, Alan cash transfers empowerment empowering women gender poverty measurement gender inequality Large-scale government cash transfer programs have become an important element of social protection and poverty reduction strategies throughout the developing world. Pakistan is no exception; in 2008, Pakistan established the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) as an unconditional cash transfer targeted at the poorest of the poor. The primary goal of the BISP program is to provide the poorest households in Pakistan with unconditional transfers in order to improve their consumption and investments in children. To attain this goal, it is believed important that the transfers are provided directly to women to ensure the funds are spent as intended. Beyond changes in consumption and investment, directing these transfers to women can also serve to empower women by increasing household resources under their control. We analyze the impacts of Pakistan’s BISP program on women’s decision-making power within households using data collected between 2011 and 2013 as the program was rolling out. Using fuzzy regression discontinuity methods to statistically identify impacts, the BISP transfer is found to have substantial, positive impacts on some variables measuring women’s decision-making power and empowerment. 2017-03-15T19:23:14Z 2017-03-15T19:23:14Z 2017-02 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/840271488779553030/The-impacts-of-cash-transfers-on-women-s-empowerment-learning-from-Pakistan-s-BISP-program http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26272 English en_US Social Protection and Labor Discussion Paper;No. 1702 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper South Asia Pakistan |
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Large-scale government cash transfer
programs have become an important element of social
protection and poverty reduction strategies throughout the
developing world. Pakistan is no exception; in 2008,
Pakistan established the Benazir Income Support Program
(BISP) as an unconditional cash transfer targeted at the
poorest of the poor. The primary goal of the BISP program is
to provide the poorest households in Pakistan with
unconditional transfers in order to improve their
consumption and investments in children. To attain this
goal, it is believed important that the transfers are
provided directly to women to ensure the funds are spent as
intended. Beyond changes in consumption and investment,
directing these transfers to women can also serve to empower
women by increasing household resources under their control.
We analyze the impacts of Pakistan’s BISP program on women’s
decision-making power within households using data collected
between 2011 and 2013 as the program was rolling out. Using
fuzzy regression discontinuity methods to statistically
identify impacts, the BISP transfer is found to have
substantial, positive impacts on some variables measuring
women’s decision-making power and empowerment. |
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Ambler, Kate De Brauw, Alan |
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Ambler, Kate De Brauw, Alan |
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Ambler, Kate |
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The Impacts of Cash Transfers on Women’s Empowerment : Learning from Pakistan’s BISP Program |
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The Impacts of Cash Transfers on Women’s Empowerment : Learning from Pakistan’s BISP Program |
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The Impacts of Cash Transfers on Women’s Empowerment : Learning from Pakistan’s BISP Program |
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The Impacts of Cash Transfers on Women’s Empowerment : Learning from Pakistan’s BISP Program |
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The Impacts of Cash Transfers on Women’s Empowerment : Learning from Pakistan’s BISP Program |
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impacts of cash transfers on women’s empowerment : learning from pakistan’s bisp program |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2017 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/840271488779553030/The-impacts-of-cash-transfers-on-women-s-empowerment-learning-from-Pakistan-s-BISP-program http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26272 |
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