Millions of pounds of international development funds are invested annually in social
protection programmes to tackle poverty. Poverty is perpetuated by risk and vulnerability …

This study uses variables from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development (OECD) Centre's Gender, Institutions and Development (GID) Database to …

Off the balance sheet: the impact of the economic crisis on girls and young women A review
of the evidence Page 1 Off the balance sheet: the impact of the economic crisis on girls and …

ActionAid International implemented an action-research programme on women's unpaid
care work in rural Nepal from March 2011 to December 2012. This social empowerment …

Adaptive and adequately resourced health systems are necessary to achieve good health
outcomes in post-conflict settings, however domains beyond the health system are also …

This paper examines youth vulnerabilities, with a particular emphasis on low-and middle-
income countries. It touches on the challenges confronted by young people exposed to …

This paper elaborates on critical processes of institutional change and the implications for
local economic development in fragile settings. Drawing on empirical research in …

This paper constructs a weighted measure of the multidimensional concept of gender
inequality: the Multidimensional Gender Inequality Index (MGII). Multiple Correspondence …

Youth unemployment and working poverty are large and growing development challenges.
The barriers faced by young women and men in accessing sustainable livelihoods are …

Executive summary The intergenerational transmission (IGT) of poverty can be described as
the private and public transfer of deficits in assets and resources from one generation to …