A multifaceted program causes lasting progress for the very poor: Evidence from six countries
A multifaceted program causes lasting progress for the very poor: Evidence from six countries
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DOI：
10.1126/science.1260799
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发表时间：
2015-05-15
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影响因子：
56.9
通讯作者：
Udry, Christopher
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作者：
Banerjee, Abhijit;Duflo, Esther;Udry, Christopher
我们介绍了六项随机对照试验的结果，这些试验采用了一种综合方法，以改善非常贫困人口的生计。这种方法将生产性资产的转让与消费支持、培训和指导以及储蓄鼓励和健康教育和/或服务相结合。根据不同的地理和体制背景以及多个执行伙伴执行同一基本方案的结果显示，对目标家庭的消费(主要是由于自营职业收入的增加)和心理社会状况产生了显著的成本效益影响。在所有执行结束后，对贫困户的影响持续了至少一年。通过相对短期的干预，有可能持续改善穷人的经济状况。
We present results from six randomized control trials of an integrated approach to improve livelihoods among the very poor. The approach combines the transfer of a productive asset with consumption support, training, and coaching plus savings encouragement and health education and/or services. Results from the implementation of the same basic program, adapted to a wide variety of geographic and institutional contexts and with multiple implementing partners, show statistically significant cost-effective impacts on consumption (fueled mostly by increases in self-employment income) and psychosocial status of the targeted households. The impact on the poor households lasted at least a year after all implementation ended. It is possible to make sustainable improvements in the economic status of the poor with a relatively short-term intervention.