German Institute for Global and Area Studies | Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien

Anna Giolbas / Marina Dodlova / Jann Lay

Non-Contributory Social Transfer Programmes (NSTP) in Developing Countries Data Set

Dataset

Description

The NSTP data set provides a comprehensive overview of non-contributory social transfer programmes in developing countries. It covers 186 programmes in 101 countries up until 2015. We provide the data in two formats. The text format consists of a list of countries included and descriptive programme profiles. The table format was obtained by encoding all details and characteristics of the respective social transfer programmes in panel form and is accompanied by a codebook. We included programmes that were in operation in 2015. While the earliest programme started in 1912, most programmes were adopted starting in the 1990s.

Access

Open / without registration

Time

1912 - 2015

Geographical coverage

Turkey, Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, Grenada, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Surinam, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Rwanda, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Republic of South Africa, Swaziland, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Tanzania, Uganda, Seychelles, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan, Palestine, Iraq, Jordan, Yemen, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Maledives, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar (Burma), East Timor, China, Mongolia, Other Asian areas