Impact of Social Fund on the Welfare of Rural Households : Evidence from the Nepal Poverty Alleviation Fund
The Nepal Poverty Alleviation Fund is a World Bank supported community-driven development program. Its objective is to improve rural welfare, particularly for groups that have traditionally been excluded for reasons of gender, ethnicity, caste, and...
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okr-10986-60452021-04-23T14:02:24Z Impact of Social Fund on the Welfare of Rural Households : Evidence from the Nepal Poverty Alleviation Fund Parajuli, Dilip Acharya, Gayatri Chaudhury, Nazmul Thapa, Bishnu Bahadur ACCESS TO EDUCATION ANTI-POVERTY BENEFICIARIES BENEFICIARY HOUSEHOLDS CAPACITY CONSTRAINTS CHANGES IN POVERTY CHRONIC FOOD INSECURITY COMMUNITIES COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS CONFLICT CONTROL GROUPS COUNTERFACTUAL DIRECT BENEFICIARIES DISTRICTS EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN FEMALE FEMALE EMPOWERMENT FEMALES FOOD INSECURE HOUSEHOLDS FOOD INSECURITY FOOD PRICE FOOD SECURITY GENDER GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD PARTICIPATION HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSEHOLD WELFARE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IMPACT ASSESSMENT IMPACT EVALUATION INCOME INCOME ON FOOD INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES INTERVENTION INTERVENTIONS LAND VALUE LANDLESS HOUSEHOLDS LIVELIHOOD LIVELIHOODS LIVING CONDITIONS LIVING STANDARDS LOCALITIES MALNUTRITION NGO OUTCOME INDICATORS PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION POOR POOR HOUSEHOLDS POORER COMMUNITIES POORER HOUSEHOLDS POST-CONFLICT COUNTRIES POVERTY ALLEVIATION POVERTY ALLEVIATION EFFORTS POVERTY ALLEVIATION FUNDS POVERTY DYNAMICS POVERTY PROGRAMS PUBLIC WORKS PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMS RURAL RURAL DEVELOPMENT RURAL HOUSEHOLD RURAL HOUSEHOLDS RURAL POOR RURAL VILLAGES RURAL WELFARE SAMPLE SIZE SCHOOLING SELECTION BIAS SHOPS SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL COHESION SOCIAL FUNDS SOCIAL PROTECTION SOCIOECONOMIC SURVEYS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TARGETING VDCS VILLAGE LEVEL VILLAGE LEVEL ANALYSIS WELFARE INDICATOR WELFARE INDICATORS WELFARE MEASURES The Nepal Poverty Alleviation Fund is a World Bank supported community-driven development program. Its objective is to improve rural welfare, particularly for groups that have traditionally been excluded for reasons of gender, ethnicity, caste, and location. Since its launch in 2004, the Fund has covered the 40 poorest districts of the country, supported some 15,000 community organizations, and benefited more than 2.5 million people. This paper attempts to estimate the impact of this large-scale program using a randomized phase-in approach, in which certain localities are randomly selected for earlier intervention than others. Using two rounds of survey data and a difference-in-difference combined with instrumental variable estimation method, it finds statistically significant causal impact of the program on key welfare outcomes. The treatment-on-the-treated estimate on real per capita consumption is 19 percent growth. Other impacts include a 19 percentage points decline on incidence of food insecurity (defined as food sufficiency for six months or less) and a 15 percentage points increase in the school enrollment rate among 6-15 year-olds. Impacts (positive or negative) are yet to be detected on indicators associated with child malnutrition, social capital, and empowerment. The policy implications of these results should be of interest to the government and to development partners in determining what may be effective instruments to deliver services to marginalized communities in what remains a fragile and difficult political environment. 2012-04-27T07:44:30Z 2012-04-27T07:44:30Z 2012-04 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/04/16234957/impact-social-fund-welfare-rural-households-evidence-nepal-poverty-alleviation-fund http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6045 English Policy Research Working Paper ; No. 6042 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research South Asia Nepal |
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ACCESS TO EDUCATION ANTI-POVERTY BENEFICIARIES BENEFICIARY HOUSEHOLDS CAPACITY CONSTRAINTS CHANGES IN POVERTY CHRONIC FOOD INSECURITY COMMUNITIES COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS CONFLICT CONTROL GROUPS COUNTERFACTUAL DIRECT BENEFICIARIES DISTRICTS EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN FEMALE FEMALE EMPOWERMENT FEMALES FOOD INSECURE HOUSEHOLDS FOOD INSECURITY FOOD PRICE FOOD SECURITY GENDER GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD PARTICIPATION HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSEHOLD WELFARE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IMPACT ASSESSMENT IMPACT EVALUATION INCOME INCOME ON FOOD INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES INTERVENTION INTERVENTIONS LAND VALUE LANDLESS HOUSEHOLDS LIVELIHOOD LIVELIHOODS LIVING CONDITIONS LIVING STANDARDS LOCALITIES MALNUTRITION NGO OUTCOME INDICATORS PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION POOR POOR HOUSEHOLDS POORER COMMUNITIES POORER HOUSEHOLDS POST-CONFLICT COUNTRIES POVERTY ALLEVIATION POVERTY ALLEVIATION EFFORTS POVERTY ALLEVIATION FUNDS POVERTY DYNAMICS POVERTY PROGRAMS PUBLIC WORKS PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMS RURAL RURAL DEVELOPMENT RURAL HOUSEHOLD RURAL HOUSEHOLDS RURAL POOR RURAL VILLAGES RURAL WELFARE SAMPLE SIZE SCHOOLING SELECTION BIAS SHOPS SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL COHESION SOCIAL FUNDS SOCIAL PROTECTION SOCIOECONOMIC SURVEYS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TARGETING VDCS VILLAGE LEVEL VILLAGE LEVEL ANALYSIS WELFARE INDICATOR WELFARE INDICATORS WELFARE MEASURES |
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ACCESS TO EDUCATION ANTI-POVERTY BENEFICIARIES BENEFICIARY HOUSEHOLDS CAPACITY CONSTRAINTS CHANGES IN POVERTY CHRONIC FOOD INSECURITY COMMUNITIES COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS CONFLICT CONTROL GROUPS COUNTERFACTUAL DIRECT BENEFICIARIES DISTRICTS EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN FEMALE FEMALE EMPOWERMENT FEMALES FOOD INSECURE HOUSEHOLDS FOOD INSECURITY FOOD PRICE FOOD SECURITY GENDER GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD PARTICIPATION HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSEHOLD WELFARE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IMPACT ASSESSMENT IMPACT EVALUATION INCOME INCOME ON FOOD INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES INTERVENTION INTERVENTIONS LAND VALUE LANDLESS HOUSEHOLDS LIVELIHOOD LIVELIHOODS LIVING CONDITIONS LIVING STANDARDS LOCALITIES MALNUTRITION NGO OUTCOME INDICATORS PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION POOR POOR HOUSEHOLDS POORER COMMUNITIES POORER HOUSEHOLDS POST-CONFLICT COUNTRIES POVERTY ALLEVIATION POVERTY ALLEVIATION EFFORTS POVERTY ALLEVIATION FUNDS POVERTY DYNAMICS POVERTY PROGRAMS PUBLIC WORKS PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMS RURAL RURAL DEVELOPMENT RURAL HOUSEHOLD RURAL HOUSEHOLDS RURAL POOR RURAL VILLAGES RURAL WELFARE SAMPLE SIZE SCHOOLING SELECTION BIAS SHOPS SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL COHESION SOCIAL FUNDS SOCIAL PROTECTION SOCIOECONOMIC SURVEYS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TARGETING VDCS VILLAGE LEVEL VILLAGE LEVEL ANALYSIS WELFARE INDICATOR WELFARE INDICATORS WELFARE MEASURES Parajuli, Dilip Acharya, Gayatri Chaudhury, Nazmul Thapa, Bishnu Bahadur Impact of Social Fund on the Welfare of Rural Households : Evidence from the Nepal Poverty Alleviation Fund |
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The Nepal Poverty Alleviation Fund is a
World Bank supported community-driven development program.
Its objective is to improve rural welfare, particularly for
groups that have traditionally been excluded for reasons of
gender, ethnicity, caste, and location. Since its launch in
2004, the Fund has covered the 40 poorest districts of the
country, supported some 15,000 community organizations, and
benefited more than 2.5 million people. This paper attempts
to estimate the impact of this large-scale program using a
randomized phase-in approach, in which certain localities
are randomly selected for earlier intervention than others.
Using two rounds of survey data and a
difference-in-difference combined with instrumental variable
estimation method, it finds statistically significant causal
impact of the program on key welfare outcomes. The
treatment-on-the-treated estimate on real per capita
consumption is 19 percent growth. Other impacts include a 19
percentage points decline on incidence of food insecurity
(defined as food sufficiency for six months or less) and a
15 percentage points increase in the school enrollment rate
among 6-15 year-olds. Impacts (positive or negative) are yet
to be detected on indicators associated with child
malnutrition, social capital, and empowerment. The policy
implications of these results should be of interest to the
government and to development partners in determining what
may be effective instruments to deliver services to
marginalized communities in what remains a fragile and
difficult political environment. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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Parajuli, Dilip Acharya, Gayatri Chaudhury, Nazmul Thapa, Bishnu Bahadur |
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Parajuli, Dilip Acharya, Gayatri Chaudhury, Nazmul Thapa, Bishnu Bahadur |
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Parajuli, Dilip |
| title |
Impact of Social Fund on the Welfare
of Rural Households : Evidence from the Nepal Poverty
Alleviation Fund |
| title_short |
Impact of Social Fund on the Welfare
of Rural Households : Evidence from the Nepal Poverty
Alleviation Fund |
| title_full |
Impact of Social Fund on the Welfare
of Rural Households : Evidence from the Nepal Poverty
Alleviation Fund |
| title_fullStr |
Impact of Social Fund on the Welfare
of Rural Households : Evidence from the Nepal Poverty
Alleviation Fund |
| title_full_unstemmed |
Impact of Social Fund on the Welfare
of Rural Households : Evidence from the Nepal Poverty
Alleviation Fund |
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impact of social fund on the welfare
of rural households : evidence from the nepal poverty
alleviation fund |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2012 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/04/16234957/impact-social-fund-welfare-rural-households-evidence-nepal-poverty-alleviation-fund http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6045 |
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