Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls is reflected across policy priorities at global and national levels. Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG 5) seeks to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls.
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In 2005, India passed the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA, “the Act”), a law guaranteeing all rural households 100 days of work at a minimum wage through the building of durable assets, which created one of the largest anti-poverty
Too often, smallholder farmers suffer severe financial consequences from extreme weather events, pests, and disease; and climate change will increase the frequency at which natural hazards occur.
Effective policies and programs aiming to reduce poverty require a clear understanding of how people earn their livelihoods.
Background
Interest from global stakeholders has grown over the past 5 years in the relationship between cash transfers and gender-based violence, and in particular, intimate partner violence (IPV).
project paper
Multi-component cash transfer programs: Evidence from Mali’s social safety net program (Jigisémèjiri)
Despite falling rates of poverty and child undernutrition in Africa over the last two decades, the absolute number of people living in poverty and the absolute number of undernourished children continue to rise due to population growth (Beegle et
En Afrique, malgré la baisse des taux de pauvreté et de sous-nutrition infantile au cours des deux dernières décennies, le nombre absolu de personnes vivant dans la pauvreté comme le nombre absolu d'enfants sous-nutris continuent d'augmenter en ra
Our working paper, “The Effects of Income Fluctuations on Rural Health and Nutrition,” provides causal evidence on how the income fluctuations poor households confront across the globe influence health and nutrition outcomes across the life cycle.
project paper
How do perceptions of relative poverty affect women's empowerment? Evidence from Papua New Guinea
How do perceptions of one's relative economic status affect gender attitudes, including support for women's economic participation and their involvement in decision-making within their household and community?
project paper
Gender and resilience to health shocks: Evidence from financial and health diaries in rural Kenya and Nigeria
Health shocks (unpredictable illnesses and injuries) are an important source of risk for individuals in developing countries.
This project tests two approaches to increasing women’s integration into and returns from cash crop value chains.