Friday, December 9, 2022
This blog answers two simple questions: how do migrant sending communities feel about temporary migration schemes, and does scheme participation affect these views? I use the Tongan household component of the Pacific Labour Mobility Survey to share some...
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
LUSAKA, May 4, 2022—Before Subeta Nkumba, was enrolled in the social cash transfer (SCT) plan in Siavonga District, Southern province, the 53-year-old widow could not afford to feed her family three meals per day. But since she started...
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
There has been a fair amount of discussion in this blog of multifaceted, poverty graduation programs (now often called ‘economic inclusion’ programs). Berk covered results from a big multicountry study, as well as some related qualitative...
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
Economic inclusion programs are coordinated, multidimensional interventions that address multiple constraints for households to increase their incomes and assets. When done right, economic inclusion programs are effective. A growing body of...
Monday, February 7, 2022
Social protection schemes have played a key role in helping the world’s poor recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and should be expanded, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, told the ...
Wednesday, January 5, 2022
Years of implementing, studying, and iterating on cash transfer programs have revealed some important lessons about achieving long-term impact.
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Tuesday, December 14, 2021
In September 2021, Tamil Nadu’s Tiruvannamalai district set a record for creating 1,121 farm ponds in 30 days by leveraging the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). The initiative’s aim was to ensure...
Sunday, November 21, 2021
As the United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26, approaches (31 October -12 November in Glasgow, Scotland), climate action is more urgent than ever. Yes, we need climate change mitigation. But for the people who are most marginalized...
Friday, November 19, 2021
Far from the limelight, global leaders are on the cusp of striking a historic and unprecedented financing deal for spurring pandemic recovery through the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA), a mechanism overseen by 173 governments...
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
As this year’s UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) unfolds, the world is facing coinciding crises. Multiple regions hit their highest-ever recorded surface temperatures this year, tens of millions of people are being displaced by climate-related...
