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DOI	10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111978
	How cash transfers program affects environmental poverty among ultra-poor? Insights from the BISP in Pakistan
	Nawaz S.; Iqbal N.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	03014215
卷号	148
英文摘要	This paper evaluates the effects of cash transfers program, that is, the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) on environmental poverty using household data. A multidimensional environmental poverty index (EPI), based on four dimensions of environmental services, namely, dwelling, water, sanitation, and energy, is developed using the Alkire-Foster method. EPI shows that about 57% of households face multidimensional environmental poverty in the sample group. Our empirical analysis, based on regression discontinuity design, indicates that BISP cash transfers have a negative and significant impact on environmental poverty. This empirical evidence implies that cash transfers increase the use of environmental services among BISP beneficiaries. The effects of cash transfers on environmental poverty vary from one province to another, which emphasizes the importance of regional differences and heterogeneities. The impacts of BISP cash transfers on various dimensions of environmental poverty, such as dwelling, water, sanitation, and energy, also differ across provinces. The government should expand social protection programs to overcome environmental poverty with a focus on the use of environmental services. However, any efforts to reduce environmental poverty through cash transfers may depend on household preferences and availability of environmental services. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd
关键词	BISP Cash transfers Environmental poverty Pakistan Regression discontinuity design
英文关键词	Housing; Empirical analysis; Environmental services; Four dimensions; Household datum; Pakistan; Regional differences; Support programs; Sanitation; energy resource; financial system; household survey; income distribution; poverty; poverty alleviation; preference behavior; sanitation; socioeconomic survey; Pakistan
语种	英语
来源期刊	Energy Policy
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/205272
作者单位	COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan; Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE), Pakistan
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Nawaz S.,Iqbal N.. How cash transfers program affects environmental poverty among ultra-poor? Insights from the BISP in Pakistan[J],2021,148.
APA	Nawaz S.,&Iqbal N..(2021).How cash transfers program affects environmental poverty among ultra-poor? Insights from the BISP in Pakistan.Energy Policy,148.
MLA	Nawaz S.,et al."How cash transfers program affects environmental poverty among ultra-poor? Insights from the BISP in Pakistan".Energy Policy 148(2021).