Geographic microtargeting of social assistance with high-resolution poverty maps. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2022 Significance Many antipoverty programs use geographic targeting to prioritize benefits to people living in specific locations. This paper shows that high-resolution poverty maps, constructed with machine learning algorithms from satellite imagery, can ...
Smythe IS, Blumenstock JE.
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Providing social assistance and humanitarian relief: The case for embracing uncertainty. [PDF]
Dev Policy Rev, 2022 Summary Motivation Social assistance, humanitarian relief, and disaster response increasingly overlap, especially where recurrent crises and persistent conflicts prevail.
Caravani M +3 more
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India's COVID-19 social assistance package and its impact on the agriculture sector. [PDF]
Agric Syst, 2021 Context CVOID-19 induced significant economic and social disruptions in India. Rural households, including smallholders, were affected by loss in migrant income, livelihood and farm and non-farm incomes.
Varshney D +4 more
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Financial hardship and social assistance as determinants of mental health and food and housing insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. [PDF]
SSM Popul Health, 2021 Background While social assistance through the U.S. federal CARES Act provided expanded unemployment insurance benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic until the summer of 2020, it is unclear whether social assistance was sufficient in subsequent months to ...
Kim D.
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Good intentions, unintended outcomes: Impact of social assistance on tobacco consumption in Indonesia. [PDF]
Tob Induc Dis, 2021 INTRODUCTION Social assistance programs create an income effect that allows low-income groups to raise their consumption to improve their well-being. However, this may unintentionally induce an increase in their consumption of temptation goods, including
Dartanto T +6 more
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Social Assistance Dependency as A Social Assistance Problem
Sosyal Siyaset Konferansları Dergisi, 2023 Social assistance dependency, in other words, social assistance syndrome is used to explain the situation in which social assistance recipients discourage from working because of the way the benefits are designed and delivered.
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Harnessing employment-based social assistance programmes to scale up nature-based climate action. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2020 As the severity of the triple challenges of global inequality, climate change and biodiversity loss becomes clearer, governments and international development institutions must find effective policy instruments to respond.
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Social Assistance Payments and Food Insecurity inAustralia: Evidence from the HouseholdExpenditure Survey. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2019 It is widely understood that households with low economic resources and poor labour market attachment are at considerable risk of food insecurity in Australia. However, little is known about variations in food insecurity by receipt of specific classes of
Temple JB, Booth S, Pollard CM.
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The impact of social assistance programs on population health: a systematic review of research in high-income countries. [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2019 BackgroundSocioeconomic disadvantage is a fundamental cause of morbidity and mortality. One of the most important ways that governments buffer the adverse consequences of socioeconomic disadvantage is through the provision of social assistance.
Shahidi FV +4 more
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JAMA Netw Open, 2020 Key Points Question Are specific social risk factors associated with patients’ interest in receiving health care–based social risk assistance? Findings In this cross-sectional study of 1021 adult patients and adult caregivers of pediatric patients, 53 ...
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