Building on our Early Learning Partnership (ELP) Phase 1 research (Rossiter et al., 2018, Kim et al., 2021), Phase 2 primarily aims to identify the effects of pre-primary school participation and quality...
The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred interest in the use of remote data collection techniques, including phone surveys, in developing country contexts. This interest has sparked new methodological work focusing...
This paper assesses the impact of Ethiopia's flagship social protection program, the Productive Safety Net Program on the adverse impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the food and nutrition security of...
Economists often default to the assumption that cash is always preferable to an in-kind transfer. Do beneficiaries feel the same way? This paper addresses this issue using longitudinal household data from...
This paper revisits the economic consequences of land fragmentation, taking seriously concerns regarding the exogeneity of fragmentation, its measurement and the importance of considering impacts in terms...
Ethiopia is in a phase of extensive and ongoing policy reform in the early learning sector, which started with the introduction of a National Policy Framework for Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE)...
The brief summarizes the impact of Programa de Educacion, Salud y Alimentacion (PROGRESA) on food consumption in Mexico. The program started in 1997 and still exists today. In this article the author used...
This brief summarizes the impact of Ethiopia's productive safety net program and its linkages. The program started in 2005. This paper assesses the impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Nets Program (PSNP)...
Fighting famine is basic to ending poverty and saving lives. Emergency aid, which arrives after the food has run out, isn't enough. Households most in need of emergency aid often don't have enough food...
Of the commonly used methods for directing transfers to the poor, there is little consensus about which is best. Policymakers need to know how effective different targeting mechanisms are, how the effectiveness...
Of the commonly used methods for directing transfers to the poor, there is little consensus about which is best. Policymakers need to know how effective different targeting mechanisms are, how the effectiveness...
"Community-based and -driven development : a critical review" by Ghazala Mansuri and Vijayendra Rao. "Agricultural extension : good intentions and hard realities" by Jock R. Anderson and Gershon Feder...
A newly constructed comprehensive database of 122 targeted antipoverty interventions in 48 countries is used to examine the contested issue of the efficacy of targeting interventions in developing countries...
Drawing on a database of more than one hundred anti-poverty interventions in 47 countries, this report provides a general review of experiences with methods used to target interventions in transition and...
This "toolkit" provides quantitative tools to practitioners who want to undertake risk and vulnerability assessments using household data. While one could use price, exchange rate, and balance of payments...
Of the commonly used methods for directing transfers to the poor, there is little consensus about which is best. Policymakers need to know how effective different targeting mechanisms are, how the effectiveness...
This paper examines the relationship between community participation and the efficacy of interventions designed to reduce poverty. The authors develop some simple analytics that are used to structure a...
Unitary versus collective models of the household: is it time to shift the burden of proof? Parallel exchange rates in developing countries. Incentives and the resolution of bank distress. Financing infrastructure...