"The dietary transition in the developing world is accelerating toward an increased burden of chronic disease. It is increasing human mortality and disease burdens, and it is lowering economic productivity.
"This study analyzes work, childcare arrangements, and earnings of mothers in the poor neighborhoods of Guatemala City and Greater Accra, Ghana, two urban areas where formal- and informal-sector work differ in importance.
"This study investigates the effects of childcare on work and earnings of mothers in poor neighborhoods of Guatemala City.
Poverty reduction strategies often highlight public spending to improve health and education, focusing on investments in human capital among poorer members of society.
"This paper explores risk sharing in the Zone Lacustre, Mali, as viewed through the lens of consumption smoothing.
This paper examines the impact of wheat transfers and cash incomes on wheat consumption and wheat markets.
"This paper discusses enabling and constraining factors related to the scaling-up of the Scaling Up HIV/AIDS Interventions Through Expanded Partnerships (STEPs) initiative, supported by Save the Children U.S.A.
There is hardly need these days to repeat that HIV/AIDS is devastating African societies and economies, threatening the hard-won human development gains of the past several decades.
To investigate this issue, the study draws on Demographic and Health Survey data collected during the 1990s in four countries: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan.
The concern that learning performance may be adversely affected by increased class size appears to be unfounded. But unchecked, the negative peer effect could hinder student achievement.
This paper presents the main findings of a quantitative evaluation of the Red de Protección Social (RPS), a conditional cash transfer program in Nicaragua, against its primary objectives.
Cash transfer programs induce multiplier effects when recipients put the money they receive to work to generate additional income. The ultimate income effects are multiples of the amounts transferred.
One of the major components of the PROGRESA program has been directed toward improving the nutritional status of small children in poor rural communities in Mexico.
This paper examines the relationship between community participation and the efficacy of interventions designed to reduce poverty.
"Child labor is widespread in developing countries, but its causes are debatable.
"This paper assesses the economy-wide impact of implementing and financing a universal or basic income grant (BIG) in South Africa.
The Government of Bangladesh launched the innovative Food for Education (FFE) program in 1993. The FFE program provides a free monthly ration of rice or wheat to poor families if their children attend primary school.
The authors evaluate the size of the welfare losses from using alternative “imperfect” welfare indicators as substitutes for the conventionally preferred consumption indicator.
This report provides an evaluation of the community-level effects of the Programa Nacional de Educacion, Salud, y Alimentacion (PROGRESA) using household-level data from various rounds of PROGRESA’s evaluation sample (the Encuesta de Evaluacion de