TY  - JOUR
U1  - Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
A1  - Pouw, Nicky
A1  - Bender, Katja
T1  - The Poverty Reduction Effect of Social Protection: The Pros and Cons of a Multidisciplinary Approach
JF  - The European Journal of Development Research
N2  - There is a growing body of knowledge on the complex effects of social protection on poverty in Africa. This article explores the pros and cons of a multidisciplinary approach to studying social protection policies. Our research aimed at studying the interaction between cash transfers and social health protection policies in terms of their impact on inclusive growth in Ghana and Kenya. Also, it explored the policy reform context over time to unravel programme dynamics and outcomes. The analysis combined econometric and qualitative impact assessments with national- and local-level political economic analyses. In particular, dynamic effects and improved understanding of processes are well captured by this approach, thus, pushing the understanding of implementation challenges over and beyond a ‘technological fix,’ as has been argued before by Niño-Zarazúa et al. (World Dev 40:163–176, 2012), However, multidisciplinary research puts considerable demands on data and data handling. Finally, some poverty reduction effects play out over a longer time, requiring longitudinal consistent data that is still scarce.
KW  - Social protection
KW  - Poverty
KW  - Multidisciplinary
KW  - Policy instruments
KW  - Interaction effects
KW  - Spill-over
Y1  - 2022
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:1044-opus-61386
SN  - 0957-8811
SS  - 0957-8811
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1057/S41287-022-00505-5
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1057/S41287-022-00505-5
VL  - 34
IS  - 5
SP  - 2204
EP  - 2223
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
ER  -