The 1.5 Billion People Question : Food, Vouchers, or Cash Transfers? / Harold Alderman.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Alderman, Harold.

Contributor:

Alderman, Harold, editor.

Gentilini, Ugo, editor.

Yemtsov, Ruslan, editor.

World Bank Group, publisher.

Series:

World Bank e-Library.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food relief.

Public welfare.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (338 pages)

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2017.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Most of the people in low and middle-income countries covered by social protection receive assistance in the form of in-kind food. The origin of such support is rooted in countries' historical pursuit of three interconnected objectives, namely attaining self-sufficiency in food, managing domestic food prices, and providing income support to the poor. This volume sheds light on the complex, bumpy and non-linear process of how some flagship food-based social protection programs have evolved over time, and how they currently work. In particular, it lays out the broad trends in reforms, including a growing move from in-kind modalities to cash transfers, from universality to targeting, and from agriculture to social protection. Case studies from Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Sri Lanka, and United States document the specific experiences of managing the process of reform and implementation, including enhancing our understanding of the opportunities and challenges with different social protection transfer modalities.

Contents:

Chapter 1. The evolution of food as social assistance: an overview / Harold Alderman, Ugo Gentilini, Ruslan Yemtsov

Chapter 2. The public distribution system in India: policy evolution and program delivery trends / Shrayana Bhattacharya, Vanita Leah Falcao, Raghav Puri

Chapter 3. The Tamween fuood subsidy system in Egypt: evolution and recent implemantation reforms / Moustufa Abdalla, Sherine Al-Shawarby

Chapter 4. Food-based social assistance programs in Sri Lanka: evolution and transition to cash transfers / Ganga Tilakaratna, Chinthani Sooriyamudali

Chapter 5. From food subsidies to targeted transfers in Mexico / John Scott, Citlalli Hernández

Chapter 6. Evolution and implementation of the supplemental nutrition assistance program in the United States / Victor Oliveira, Laura Tiehen, Mark Prell, David Smallwood

Chapter 7. Evolution and implementation of the Rastra program in Indonesia / Peter Timmer, Hastuti, Sudarno Sumarto.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781464810886

1464810885

Publisher Number:

10.1596/978-1-4648-1087-9