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Impact of cash transfer on poverty reduction in Lindi district, Tanzania

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dc.contributor.author Njuga, Gidion O.
dc.contributor.author Kazuzuru, Benedicto B.
dc.contributor.author Warsanga, William B.
dc.date.accessioned 2023-06-14T07:56:00Z
dc.date.available 2023-06-14T07:56:00Z
dc.date.issued 2022
dc.identifier.citation Njuga, G. O., Kazuzuru, B., Warsanga, W. B. (2022). Impact of Cash Transfer on Poverty Reduction in Lindi District, Tanzania. Ghana. East African Journal of Education and Social Sciences 3(5)61-75. en_US
dc.identifier.issn Doi: https://doi.org/10.46606/eajess2022v03i05.0220.
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.mocu.ac.tz/xmlui/handle/123456789/378
dc.description Doi: https://doi.org/10.46606/eajess2022v03i05.0220. en_US
dc.description.abstract Cash Transfers (CT) as a strategy for poverty reduction acquired prominence in Latin America but spread later to the rest of the developing world including Tanzania. Government through its umbrella institution, Tanzania Social Action Fund (TASAF) introduced what has become the largest CT for poor households in the country since 2010 to date. Although there is growing evidence on the impact of CT on poverty reduction, results are contextual. Thus, the paper examined the causal effect of CT on poverty reduction in Lindi District, Tanzania. Specifically, the study assessed the impact of CT on households’ overall wealth, housing conditions, use of basic services, productive and non productive assets. The study employed Propensity Score Matching (PSM) to estimate the effects of CT on households by matching recipients and non-recipients’ households using Nearest Neighbor, Radius caliper and Mahalanobis matching techniques. Sample size constituted 398 respondents, split into equal number of recipients and non-recipients’ households. Five Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) and 13 Key Informants Interviews (KIIs) were conducted. Qualitative data was analysed using content analysis. Findings indicated that CT to poor households by itself is not enough to significantly reduce extreme poverty. However, the results indicated significant effect of CT on five poverty indicators which are type of floor, sanitation facilities, livestock, mobile phone and chair. The study recommends to government adoption of multi-intervention programs directed on key living standard indicators such as productive assets to transform the quality of low-income households. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher East African Journal of Education and Social Sciences (EAJESS) en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Vol. 3;No. 5
dc.subject Cash transfer (CT) en_US
dc.subject Poverty en_US
dc.subject Propensity en_US
dc.subject Score Matching en_US
dc.subject Tanzania en_US
dc.subject Lindi en_US
dc.title Impact of cash transfer on poverty reduction in Lindi district, Tanzania en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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