Productive safety net program and children's time use between work and schooling in Ethiopia

Child Welfare in Developing Countries

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 157-209

  Woldehanna, Tassew ^a  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Child welfare; Ethiopia; Impact evaluation; Productive safety net; Social protection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889964018     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6275-1_6     Document Type: Chapter

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