The impact of cash transfers on social determinants of health and health inequalities in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review

E Owusu-Addo, AMN Renzaho… - Health policy and …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Cash transfers (CTs) are now high on the agenda of most governments in low-and middle-
income countries. Within the field of health promotion, CTs constitute a healthy public policy …

The Lancet Commission on peaceful societies through health equity and gender equality

V Percival, OT Thoms, B Oppenheim, D Rowlands… - The Lancet, 2023 - thelancet.com
Executive summary The multiple and overlapping crises faced by countries, regions, and the
world appear unprecedented in their magnitude and complexity. Protracted conflicts …

A mixed-method review of cash transfers and intimate partner violence in low-and middle-income countries

AM Buller, A Peterman, M Ranganathan… - The World Bank …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
There is increasing evidence that cash transfer (CT) programs decrease intimate partner
violence (IPV). However, little is known about how CTs achieve this impact. We conducted a …

A three-dimensional model of women's empowerment: Implications in the field of microfinance and future directions

MA Huis, N Hansen, S Otten, R Lensink - Frontiers in psychology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Women's empowerment is an important goal in achieving sustainable development
worldwide. Offering access to microfinance services to women is one way to increase …

The effects of cash transfers on adult and child mortality in low-and middle-income countries

A Richterman, C Millien, EF Bair, G Jerome… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Poverty is an important social determinant of health that is associated with increased risk of
death,,,–. Cash transfer programmes provide non-contributory monetary transfers to …

Mapping impact investing: A bibliometric analysis

M Migliavacca, R Patel, A Paltrinieri… - Journal of International …, 2022 - Elsevier
Impact investing, as the furthest form of sustainable finance, has gained in research
attention. However, there is no complete bibliometric review on this topic. We map the …

Myth-busting? Confronting six common perceptions about unconditional cash transfers as a poverty reduction strategy in Africa

S Handa, S Daidone, A Peterman… - The World Bank …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
This paper summarizes evidence on six perceptions associated with cash transfer
programming, using eight rigorous evaluations conducted on large-scale government …

The effects of cash transfer programmes on HIV-related outcomes in 42 countries from 1996 to 2019

A Richterman, H Thirumurthy - Nature Human Behaviour, 2022 - nature.com
Many countries have introduced cash transfer programmes as part of their poverty reduction
and social protection strategies. These programmes have the potential to overcome drivers …

[HTML][HTML] Context and measurement: An analysis of the relationship between intrahousehold decision making and autonomy

G Seymour, A Peterman - World Development, 2018 - Elsevier
Using data from two culturally distinct locales, Bangladesh and Ghana, we investigate
whether men and women who report sole decision making in a particular domain …

Grappling with the challenges of measuring women's economic empowerment in intrahousehold settings

S Laszlo, K Grantham, E Oskay, T Zhang - World Development, 2020 - Elsevier
Defining and measuring women's economic empowerment (WEE) has been at the centre of
the current debates among international development scholars and practitioners. The lack of …