How much can asset transfers help the poorest? The Five Cs of community-level development and BRAC’s ultra-poor program

We develop a framework for assessing community-level development programs, building upon five related elements that are centrally important: confidence, cohesion, capacity, connections and cash (the five ‘Cs’). We use this framework for evaluating the impacts over a six-year period (2002-2008) of an...

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Prif Awduron:	Krishna, Anirudh, Poghosyan, Meri, Das, Narayan
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spelling	10361-161862022-02-08T21:02:06Z How much can asset transfers help the poorest? The Five Cs of community-level development and BRAC’s ultra-poor program Krishna, Anirudh Poghosyan, Meri Das, Narayan Asset transfer Bangladesh Community-level development Programme evaluation Poverty We develop a framework for assessing community-level development programs, building upon five related elements that are centrally important: confidence, cohesion, capacity, connections and cash (the five ‘Cs’). We use this framework for evaluating the impacts over a six-year period (2002-2008) of an innovative program, implemented in rural Bangladesh, which has assisted extremely poor households, literally the poorest of the poor. Asset transfers constitute the centrepiece of this multidimensional program, which also supports training, organization building, cash supports, microfinance, and so on. The provision of a substantial dose of assets has helped produce very positive results by and large. Impressive income gains have been achieved (and sustained) by the majority of assisted households. But vulnerability to downturns on account of negative events, such as illnesses and house damage, has resulted in asset losses for several assisted households. Better social protection measures will help complete the good work commenced by the asset transfer plan. 2022-02-08T05:33:33Z 2022-02-08T05:33:33Z 2010-10 Working Paper http://hdl.handle.net/10361/16186 application/pdf Brooks World Poverty Institute
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spellingShingle	Asset transfer Bangladesh Community-level development Programme evaluation Poverty Krishna, Anirudh Poghosyan, Meri Das, Narayan How much can asset transfers help the poorest? The Five Cs of community-level development and BRAC’s ultra-poor program
description	We develop a framework for assessing community-level development programs, building upon five related elements that are centrally important: confidence, cohesion, capacity, connections and cash (the five ‘Cs’). We use this framework for evaluating the impacts over a six-year period (2002-2008) of an innovative program, implemented in rural Bangladesh, which has assisted extremely poor households, literally the poorest of the poor. Asset transfers constitute the centrepiece of this multidimensional program, which also supports training, organization building, cash supports, microfinance, and so on. The provision of a substantial dose of assets has helped produce very positive results by and large. Impressive income gains have been achieved (and sustained) by the majority of assisted households. But vulnerability to downturns on account of negative events, such as illnesses and house damage, has resulted in asset losses for several assisted households. Better social protection measures will help complete the good work commenced by the asset transfer plan.
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author	Krishna, Anirudh Poghosyan, Meri Das, Narayan
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title	How much can asset transfers help the poorest? The Five Cs of community-level development and BRAC’s ultra-poor program
title_short	How much can asset transfers help the poorest? The Five Cs of community-level development and BRAC’s ultra-poor program
title_full	How much can asset transfers help the poorest? The Five Cs of community-level development and BRAC’s ultra-poor program
title_fullStr	How much can asset transfers help the poorest? The Five Cs of community-level development and BRAC’s ultra-poor program
title_full_unstemmed	How much can asset transfers help the poorest? The Five Cs of community-level development and BRAC’s ultra-poor program
title_sort	how much can asset transfers help the poorest? the five cs of community-level development and brac’s ultra-poor program
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