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This book charts out the overall challenges and opportunities of productive safety net program by paying more attention on Merti Wereda. The book also reveals the positive and negative impacts of the program on direct and indirect beneficiaries. Thus, this book is useful to government, non government, and community based organizations to properly target the venerable and enhance the positive impacts of the program

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Beyene wubishaw is a lecturer in Debre Markos University. He received his MA in Geography and Environmental studies from Addis Ababa University, in 2007. He had also graduated from Dilla College of Teacher Education and Health Sciences with Bachelor of Education in Geography in 2005. Currently,He is writing a proposal for further study.

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