Despite wide use of women’s decisionmaking indicators, both as a direct measure of intrahousehold decisionmaking and as a proxy for women’s empowerment or bargaining power, little has been done to explore what such indicators capture and how effec

Discussions regarding the merits of cash and food transfers by academics and implementers alike focus on their relative impacts. Much less is known about their relative costs.

This paper has been produced to support the Government of Yemen and the international community in designing a transition plan for the country.

This paper has been produced to support the Government of Yemen and the international community in designing a transition plan for the country.

Expectations are high that transition in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen will bring about more freedom, justice, and economic opportunities.

Petroleum subsidy reform is increasingly seen as an opportunity for consolidating public finances and fostering sustainable economic development.

Yemen has been facing severe development challenges in recent years, but rapidly depleting oil and water resources combined with large population increases and a lack of job-creating growth are making a difficult situation even more complicated.

Yemen is an oil-exporting and food-importing country on the Arabian Peninsula with persistently high levels of poverty.

This study is part of a collaborative project between the International Food Policy Research Institute and the Arab Planning Institute in Kuwait on public policy and poverty reduction in the Arab region.