Building resilience through social protection: Evidence from Malawi Resilience measures can predict choice of coping strategies, helping targeted cash transfers improve how vulnerable households respond to shocks Social Protection Sudhanshu (Ashu) Handa Frank Otchere Published 22.09.22
Designing financial services and social protection programmes to enhance women’s economic empowerment Financial inclusion programmes must be designed to ensure that women can act with financial independence Finance Mikaela Rabb Published 03.08.22
The impact of Mexico’s Progresa programme twenty years on The ground-breaking conditional cash transfer programme shows long-term benefits to education, income, geographic mobility and family formation Education M. Caridad Araujo Karen Macours Published 04.05.22
God insures those who pay: Formal insurance and religious offerings in Ghana An experiment reveals that church members enrolled in formal insurance give less money to their church and to other charitable organisations Institutions & Political Economy Emmanuelle Auriol Julie Lassébie Amma Panin Eva Raiber Paul Seabright Published 09.04.21
In-kind transfers as insurance: Evidence from India While academics and policymakers prefer unconditional cash transfer to the poor, they value in-kind transfers that protect against price fluctuations Social Protection Lucie Gadenne Sam Norris Monica Singhal Sandip Sukhtankar Published 01.03.21
Do asset transfer programmes lead to child labour? Evidence from Philippines Asset transfers can expand household-based economic activity, but can also draw more children into the labour force when other labour is unavailable Labour Markets Eric Edmonds Caroline Theoharides Published 20.11.20
Inclusive growth dividend: Reframing the role of income transfers in India Could a universal supplemental income transfer, pegged at 1% of GDP, transform India’s anti-poverty strategy? Public Economics Karthik Muralidharan Maitreesh Ghatak Published 15.07.20
How to protect the poor in the time of COVID-19? How can governments in developing countries best ensure widespread and effective social protection in light of the COVID-19 pandemic? Institutions & Political Economy Clément Imbert Kate Orkin Published 06.05.20
Cushioning the effects of COVID-19 on the poor How can we best protect the most vulnerable in the developing world during the COVID-19 pandemic? Institutions & Political Economy Rema Hanna Benjamin Olken Published 29.04.20
