Thursday, December 1, 2022
Can comparing anti-poverty programs to unconditional cash transfers improve development programming? Carson Christiano, CEGA Executive Director and DIL Managing Director, explores new findings from a portfolio of cash benchmarking research five years in...
Monday, May 9, 2022
Ma Nilar’s husband Ko San used to be able to support her and their three children with the income he earned as a motorbike taxi driver in Hlaing Thar Yar, the country’s most populous township in Yangon. But that was before the lockdowns caused by...
Thursday, April 21, 2022
“Big push” interventions are commonly proposed to generate significant, sustained increases in household, community, and national income (Banerjee et al. 2020; Kraay and McKenzie 2014).
At the household level, two approaches to increasing intervention...
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Somalia has faced a protracted humanitarian crisis due to decades of conflict, political instability, and recurrent droughts. Beyond humanitarian support, small enterprises are a key lifeline and income source, especially for those living in internally...
Friday, March 4, 2022
Children are one of the most important resources for driving Malaysia’s future growth. Unfortunately, child-related indicators have deteriorated in recent years. The economic fallout induced by COVID-19 will aggravate the situation if the status quo...
Tuesday, February 8, 2022
Imagine a very near future in South Africa, where everyone’s basic needs are met which in turn enables our economy to thrive. It is a practical possibility within our reach.
The views, thoughts and opinions presented in this Op-Ed belong to its author...
Sunday, January 30, 2022
The recent ‘leaking’ of a President’s Economic Advisory Council note arguing against basic income support for millions of South Africans raises many questions about whether this is really a debate about technical constraints or one that is ideological —...
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
A basic income would not necessarily mean that people would work less. This is the conclusion of a series of behavioural experiments by cognitive psychologist Fenna Poletiek, social psychologist Erik de Kwaadsteniet and cognitive psychologist Bastiaan...
Monday, October 11, 2021
The policy discussion which included nine government institutions and a host of local and International partners in the Social Protection sector, was led by the Minister of Gender Children and Social Protection, who chairs the National Social Protection...
Friday, October 1, 2021
Budget reconciliation negotiations among Democrats have hit an impasse over Senator Joe Manchin’s worries about extending the Child Tax Credit (CTC) without a work requirement. As he put it in his agreement with Majority Leader Chuck Schumer,...
