The Cash Dividend: The Rise of Cash Transfer Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Although Sub-Saharan Africa experienced strong economic growth at the beginning of the twenty-first century, recent economic crises and other problems have left poor people in the region vulnerable to myriad challenges, ranging from environmental issues, including climate change and natural and human-made disasters, to economic issues, such as volatile prices and terms of trade, high unemployment and population growth, and food insecurity. Governments, donors, and policy makers in Africa have been drawn to cash transfer programs as a possible means toward meeting these challenges.

The Cash Dividend: The Rise of Cash Transfer Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa summarizes the results of a thorough and comprehensive review of the recent use of cash transfer programs in Sub-Saharan Africa and discusses the unique challenges associated with implementing these programs in the region?s environment. Drawing from a wide range of sources and previously unexamined data, the book outlines broad trends in program design features and implementation, discusses lessons that have been learned, and addresses the importance of issues such as political will and buy-in inherent to cash transfers in the region.

Addressed to the donor community and domestic policymakers involved in cash transfers and social protection, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, The Cash Dividend: The Rise of Cash Transfer Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa will help shift the debate on cash transfers in Africa from whether such programs are possible to how they can best be implemented.

?This excellent volume provides a wealth of empirical detail about cash transfer programs in Sub-Saharan Africa. Over 120 programs provide the basis for the assessment, and the Appendixes, which comprise close to half the volume, review programs country by country. I like the fact that the assessment is not dogmatic but lays out the strengths and the weaknesses of cash transfer programs in the African setting, and highlights country specificities. This book will be a useful resource for both researchers and practitioners.? .

? Ravi Kanbur, Professor of Economics, Cornell University

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Source: http://publications.worldbank.org/18897

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