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 …

Many development programs that aim to alleviate poverty and improve investments in
human capital consider women s empowerment a key pathway by which to achieve impact …

Conditional cash transfer programs with female beneficiaries have scope to increase
women's intrahousehold decision-making power. Yet quantitative evidence is limited. We …

I have chosen to write this book in a way that is informed by critical theories of development
and feminist scholarship, but that places lived experience front and center. My professional …

Childhood malnutrition remains a significant global problem, with an estimated 162 million
children under the age of five suffering from stunted growth. This article examines the extent …

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 …

The results of a systematic review of evidence on the effects of conditional cash transfer
(CCT) programmes on household economic outcomes are presented. Out of 1076 original …

We examine the role of gender in various pathways to food security in Malawi, emphasizing
improved access to agriculture and nutrition information along these pathways and …

This paper evaluates the impact of multipurpose cash assistance on refugee households, by
relying on an original sampling design that allows tracing these impacts over multiple …

Motivation In areas of the world where poverty and inequality are deep and pervasive and
social protection systems comparatively fragile, cash transfers are becoming commonplace …