One plus one can be greater than two: Evaluating synergies of development programmes in Malawi.

Publisher: F. Cass Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 9878847 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Print ISSN: 0022-0388 (Print) Linking ISSN: 00220388 NLM ISO Abbreviation: J Dev Stud Subsets: PubMed not MEDLINE

Original Publication: London, F. Cass.

This paper investigates the interplay between the Social Cash Transfer Programme (SCTP) and the Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP) in Malawi. We take advantage of data collected from a seventeen-month evaluation of a sample of households eligible to receive SCTP, which also provided information about inclusion into FISP. We estimate two types of synergies: i) the complementarity between SCTP and FISP, i.e. whether the impact of both interventions run together is larger than the sum of the impacts of these interventions when run separately, and ii) the incremental impact of receiving FISP when a household already receives SCTP, as well as the incremental impact of receiving SCTP when a household already receives FISP. The analysis shows that there are synergies between the two policy interventions, mainly in terms of incremental impact of each programme over the other, in increasing expenditure, agricultural production and livestock.

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Keywords: C93; D12; O12; Q12; agricultural subsidies; cash transfers; household expenditure; impact evaluation; productive impact; programme complementarity

Date Created: 20190830 Latest Revision: 20200225

20221213

PMC6713287

10.1080/00220388.2017.1380794

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