Many cash transfer programs include complementary nutrition training, with the aim of encouraging households to use transfer resources toward improving child nutrition.

Do electoral considerations play a role in the targeting of humanitarian transfers?

At the World Humanitarian Summit in 2016 the long-standing divide between humanitarian and development approaches was challenged with a call for responses that both meet immediate needs and protect human capital for eventual recovery.

Women’s decisionmaking indicators are widely used in social science research, though insufficient attention is given to measurement issues.

Where there are more village meetings, cash transfers can increase trust in elected leaders, and improve the perceptions of government responsiveness to citizens’ concerns, and leaders' honesty.

Assessesing the economy-wide effects of Malawi’s export restrictions on maize and oilseeds, finding that short run benefits may be redered ineffective by production responses in the medium to long run.

"Bangladesh’s Food for Education Program (FFE), which provided free food to poor families if their children attended primary school, was successful in increasing children’s school enrollment, especially for girls.