Impact evaluations
Publication
Work area: Social Protection and Agriculture
This publication discusses the potential of digital technology to improve social protection performance in rural areas, as well as its limitations. Through case studies from across all regions, the paper documents the extent to which...
Socioeconomic impact evaluation of unemployment insurance for small-scale fishers in Brazil (Seguro-Defeso)
28 February 2023
Publication
28 February 2023
Work area: Social Protection and Agriculture
Country: Brazil
The Unemployment Insurance for Small-scale Fishers programme, or “Seguro-Defeso”, is related to one of the fisheries management measures in Brazil, namely the closed fishing season or “Defeso”, which seeks to ensure the conservation of exploited...
The impacts of COVID-19 and policy responses in rural economies - Findings from a local-economy general equilibrium modelling study
30 January 2023
Publication
30 January 2023
Work area: Social Protection and Agriculture
The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and government policies to limit its spread are multi-faceted and complex. Market linkages transmit these impacts through economies, from directly affected...
Publication
Work area: Social Protection and Agriculture
In this paper we focus specifically on differences in the welfare impacts of COVID-19 on rural livelihoods between countries using nationally representative data that we disaggregate by...
Synergies between social protection and rural development programmes. Main results of the impact evaluations in Latin America and Africa
22 February 2021
Publication
22 February 2021
Work area: Social Protection and Agriculture
Coordination between social protection and rural productive development programmes can help poor and at-risk households escape the poverty trap and break its intergenerational transmission