Targeting Food Security Interventions When 'Everyone is Poor': The Case of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme

This paper assesses the targeting performance of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Nets Programme (PSNP) – a large scale social safety net program that reaches more than one million rural Ethiopian households. Most beneficiary households do public works while a small proportion receive unconditional transfers called Direct Support. We find that the PSNP is targeted towards households that are both food insecure and poor in terms of total household...