The public health response to COVID-19 in many countries has involved strict restrictions on
movement and economic activity which threaten the livelihoods of economically vulnerable …

REPORT NO. 1 4/June/2020 that it is important to stay home and avoid gatherings (Table 1).
Differences between urban and rural areas are relatively small. About 93 percent of …

Improving household resilience is becoming one of the key focus and target of social
protection programs in Africa. However, there is surprisingly little direct evidence of the …

In 2015, Ethiopia experienced one of its worst droughts in decades. Using nationally
representative data from before and after the event, we do not find evidence that this drought …

The malign effect of shocks has long been a concern within economics, partly because they
result in transitory welfare losses and partly because they may have persistent effects. In …

Economists often default to the assumption that cash is always preferable to an in-kind
transfer. Do beneficiaries feel the same way? This paper addresses this issue using …

Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) is a large-scale social protection
intervention aimed at improving food security and stabilizing asset levels. The PSNP …

We provide new evidence on the impact of social protection interventions on household size
and the factors that cause the household size to change: fertility, child fosterage, and in and …

Although redistribution results from the simultaneous effects of taxes and transfers, analyses
of their distributional effects in low‐income countries have largely been undertaken from …

This paper provides a structured overview of the concept of resilience for use in discussions
surrounding food security and nutrition. It defines resilience as the capacity that ensures …