Table 9.

Cost benefit analysis of mitigation interventions and impact on female poverty in Colombia

Mitigation interventions	Total cost (millions COP) of current intervention (A)	Actual poverty reduction of intervention (best and worst cases. pp) (B)	Cost for a 1 pp poverty reduction (COP billions) (C = A/B)	Number of women brought out of poverty
Más Familias en acción	589,506	[0.27; 0.34]	[1,749; 2,216]	[65,183; 81,189]
Colombia Mayor	205,796	[0.10; 0.12]	[1,701; 2,144]	[23,098; 32,011]
Jóvenes en acción	67,985	[0.01; 0.02]	[3,777; 5,230]	[3,446; 4,230]
VAT Refund	374,965	[0.19; 0.22]	[1,744; 2,027]	[44,719; 60,933]
Solidarity Income	959,796	[0.49; 0.80]	[1,194; 1,979]	[119,305; 197,768]
Food Baskets UNGR	22,762	[0.02; 0.03]	[910; 1,186]	[4,942; 7,431]
Early Childhood Feeding Program	108,123	[0.03; 0.05]	[2,253; 3,379]	[9,757; 12,963]
Credit line	1,000,000	[0.05; 0.07]	[13,514; 22,222]	[10,948; 19,129]
Payroll subsidy	5,309,077	[0.65; 0.87]	[6,077; 8,193]	[161,646; 219,254]
Bonus subsidy	381,699	[0.06; 0.11]	[3,534; 6,638]	[13,682; 26,410]
Suspension of retirement contribution	2,199,447	[0.13; 0.17]	[12,728; 17,224]	[24,768; 42,779]

Source Authors’ simulations using GEIH 2018

Note pp, “percentage point”; Exchange rate, USD 1.0 = COP 3,746.9