While social protection programs have multiplied over the last two decades across sub-Saharan Africa, these co-exist alongside humanitarian assistance in many places, calling for better integration of assistance delivered through the two channels.

Micronutrients, often referred to as vitamins and minerals are vital to healthy development, disease prevention, and wellbeing.

National poverty rates in Myanmar have risen dramatically due to economic disruption following the February 1, 2021 military take-over of government.

Economists often default to the assumption that cash is always preferable to an in-kind transfer. Do beneficiaries feel the same way?

Improving social assistance programs is imperative to addressing problems of poverty and vulnerability in Malawi. Emergency aid has played an important role in alleviating hunger during humanitarian crises such as those in 2015-16 and 2016-17.

Economists typically default to the assumption that cash is always preferable to an in-kind transfer. We extend the classic Southworth (1945) framework to predict under what conditions this assumption holds.

We rely on a unique pre-crisis baseline and five-year follow-up to investigate the effects of emergency school feeding and general food distribution (GFD) on children’s schooling during conflict in Mali.

In early 2016, Malawi suffered its second consecutive year of harvest failure.

In 2015, Ethiopia experienced one of its worst droughts in decades.

In Ethiopia, as in many other African countries, there is a pressing need to improve household food security.