One Plus One can be Greater than Two: Evaluating Synergies of Development Programmes in Malawi. Issue 11 (2nd November 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Pace, Noemi; Daidone, Silvio; Davis, Benjamin; Handa, Sudhanshu; Knowles, Marco; Pickmans, Robert
• Is Part Of: Journal of development studies. Volume 54:Issue 11(2018)
• Page Start: 2023
• Page End: 2060
• Publication Date: 2018-11-02
• Subjects: Economic development -- Periodicals; Economic history -- 1945- -- Periodicals; Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals; Développement économique -- Périodiques; Histoire économique -- 1945- -- Périodiques; Pays en voie de développement -- Conditions économiques -- Périodiques; 338.91
• DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2017.1380794
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0022-0388

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This paper investigates the interplay between the Social Cash Transfer Programme (SCTP) and the Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP) in Malawi. We take advantage of data collected from a 17-month evaluation of a sample of households eligible to receive SCTP, which also provided information about inclusion into FISP. We estimate two types of synergies: i) the complementarity between SCTP and FISP, that is whether the impact of both interventions run together is larger than the sum of the impacts of these interventions when run separately, and ii) the incremental impact of receiving FISP when a household already receives SCTP, as well as the incremental impact of receiving SCTP when a household already receives FISP. The analysis shows that there are synergies between the two policy interventions, mainly in terms of incremental impacts of each programme over the other, in increasing expenditure, agricultural production and livestock.