Have been away and eager to get the latest on social protection? Weekly links are back with an extra-rich edition to get you on top of all recent research, news, and more. Let’s start with child-sensitive cash transfers in Southern Africa! A JDS article by Granlund and Hochfeld finds that
South Africa’s Child Support Grant had positive socially-transformative effects on women empowerment, sense of dignity, and autonomy among primary caregivers. At community level, the grant seems to also help strengthening informal sharing mechanisms (the article also comes with several telling quotes from beneficiary interviews). In Zambia, instead, Chakrabarti et al show
no impact of the unconditional Child Grant Program on stunting after four years, hence stressing...
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