Tonga’s economic growth, historically weak due to structural factors facing many Pacific Island countries, has been particularly sluggish in recent years due to several large shocks. Tropical cyclones...
Chapter 1 of the report discusses differences in the evolution of the size and composition of public spending between high-income and low- and middle-income nations. These differences are cause and effect...
This paper examines the distributional effects of fiscal policy in Grenada. Using data from the 2017–18 Living Conditions and Household Budgets Survey and following the Commitment to Equity analysis framework...
When it comes to mental health, do social protection programs matter more in times of crisis? Using panel data from the Philippines around the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, this study compares depression...
This report assesses the impact of fiscal policy, both revenue and expenditure, on inequality and poverty in the Dominican Republic. On the revenue side, the analysis focuses on the personal income tax...
Bolsa Familia (BF) is one of the earliest established poverty-targeted conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs in the world, and, over time, it has experienced a large and heterogenous churn in beneficiaries...
O Bolsa Família (BF) é um dos primeiros programas de transferência condicionada de renda (CCT) direcionados à pobreza estabelecidos no mundo e, ao longo do tempo, experimentou uma grande e heterogênea...
Este relatório foca no principal programa de transferência de renda condicional do Brasil e aborda os seguintes tópicos: (i) Desafios enfrentados pelo novo governo; (ii) Resultados de microsimulação; (iii)...
This report focuses on Brazil's main conditional cash transfer program, and focuses on the following topics: (i) Challenges faced by the new government; (ii) Microsimulation results; (iii) Government's...
This note presents lessons learned from three ongoing World Bank PforR projects in - Brazil, Indonesia, and Tanzania - which were highlighted in the Primer Conditional Grants in ‘Principle, in Practice...
The relationship between intimate partner violence and cash transfer programs has been extensively researched, with a consensus that cash transfers are most likely to reduce intimate partner violence...
The Government of Pakistan (GOP) launched the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) in July 2008 to serve as the premier national safety net institution with the primary objective of consumption smoothing...
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...