Can cash transfers improve mental health? Ohrnberger et al present experimental evidence from the Malawi Incentive Programme (MIP), a CCT offering cash transfers conditional on maintaining HIV-free status for at least a year. The MIP improved mental...
Let’s begin with a rich synthesis! Beazley et al summarize the performance of select social protection Covid-19 responses in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, Pakistan, Sierra Leone and Uganda . Trade-offs were in full display: Pakistan and Bangladesh showed...
The COVID-19 crisis is estimated to have substantial economical impacts in Africa, but those will not be identical among population groups and areas within a country. As a result of the different socioeconomic structures and dynamics of rural and urban...