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Ethiopia recently experienced a large-scale war that lasted for more than two years.

In flood-prone communities in Northeast Nigeria, we used a randomized evaluation to measure the impacts of providing cash transfers to households before the onset of a shock (“anticipatory cash”) compared to the standard practice of providing cash

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Quantifying the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on poverty in Africa has been as difficult as predicting the path of the pandemic, mainly due to data limitations.

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

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