In Zambia, poverty remains high and largely concentrated in remote places, with an estimated poverty incidence of 76.5 percent in rural areas in 2015, and likely worsening since then. The bulk of the rural...
Urban centers are growing, with two-thirds of the world’s population expected to live in urban centers by 2050; nearly ninety percent of this increase is in Asia and Africa. A rapidly urbanizing world...
Sub-Saharan Africa is the world's fastest urbanizing region. This presents economic opportunities for the poor and vulnerable but also poses significant barriers to their economic inclusion. With an increasing...
This report reviews the experiences of market linkage programs implemented globally, particularly those focused on poor smallholders, including women, as beneficiaries and farmers who participated in government...
This PEI In Practice Brief provides an overview of volumes 1 and 2 of PEI In Practice on Economic Inclusion in urban areas. Links to both volumes are provided for additional reading.
The Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) introduced its first Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program, called Helping Hand, in 2021. This program provides cash grants to poor and vulnerable households...
This note is one of two designed to serve as a resource for policy makers and practitioners aiming to introduce or scale up economic inclusion programs in urban and peri-urban areas. The first note explores...
A rapidly urbanizing world presents enormous economic opportunities for the poor and vulnerable but also presents significant barriers to their economic inclusion. About two thirds of the world’s population...
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and efforts to contain the virus have caused severe health and economic effects in the Philippines. This study is the second of its series investigating...
This study is the first of its series investigating the outcomes of low income households during the pandemic over time using multiple waves of the Low Income Household Panel Economic (HOPE) survey. The...
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has caused a dramatic disruption in the delivery of education and health services in the Philippines. With school closures and challenges in the delivery of distance...
The stunting rate in the Philippines is high for the country’s level of income. Almost one in three children under age five is stunted, and the rate is significantly higher among children from low income...
This is the fourth benefit incidence analysis of the Philippines’ conditional cash transfer program that uses standard measures to assess the implementation performance of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino...
This report was prepared to make an inventory of key social protection (SP) programs (over 60) in the Philippines, with the main objective to inform the ongoing review of the country SP Framework and to...
The Philippines Department of Social Welfare and Development has taken the lead in providingopportunities for income generating activities/livelihood development through the implementationof the Sustainable...
This study analyzes labor market performance in the Philippines from the perspective of workers’ welfare. It argues that pervasive in-work poverty is the main challenge facing labor policy. Poverty is...
The government of the Philippines decided to couple a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) evaluation of Pantawid Pamilya with a Regression Discontinuity (RD) design since sustaining a control group was undesirable...