Hailed as one of the largest publicly funded health insurance programs in the world, India’s “Modicare” has, since its launch a little more than six months ago, made universal healthcare coverage an election theme for the first time in the country’s history...
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Bangladesh, a country of 165 million people bordering India and Myanmar, is undergoing a rapid economic and social transformation. It has experienced steady economic growth over the last decade driven mostly by readymade garments exports and remittances from...
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In this review, we bring together evidence from 274 educational interventions from 179 studies in 54 low- and middle-income countries and identify their impacts on girls, regardless of whether or not they specifically target girls. We find that to improve...
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Despite the increased use of conditional and unconditional cash-transfer programs worldwide, a majority of social protection programs in both developed and developing countries use in-kind transfers and vouchers. This paper reports the results of a randomized...
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Like a number of other countries, even in 2017, Malawi lacked a functioning national registry or identification system. This essay describes how a comprehensive multipurpose national ID system was implemented in 180 days, with the assistance of UNDP and other...
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Conditional and unconditional cash transfers have been effective in improving development outcomes in a variety of contexts, yet the costs of these programs to program recipients and implementing agencies are rarely discussed. The introduction of mobile money...
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