Which social safety-net progammes reach poor households? How cost efficient are they? This research shows that public works programmes have great potential for targeting poor households. However there is a great variability in their performance.

Lorsque les décideurs arrêtent une répartition des dépenses publiques permettant d’augmenter la croissance économique et de réduire la pauvreté, ils ont besoin de bien comprendre comment les investissements publics se traduisent en termes de dével

Para decidir cómo asignar el gasto público de manera de lograr un mayor crecimiento económico y la reducción de la pobreza, los responsables de formular las políticas deben comprender cabalmente cómo la inversión pública se traduce en resultados e

As policymakers decide how to allocate public spending to achieve higher growth and poverty reduction, they need a clear understanding of how public investments translate into development outcomes.

This paper investigates how the control and devolution of productive assets are allocated among husband and wife.

This paper presents a new methodological framework for measuring the level of household access to credit.

This paper investigates whether inferences drawn about a population are sensitive to the manner by which those data are obtained.

Child labor is widespread in developing countries, but its causes are debatable.

The authors use individual observations from a panel of families during the period of the peso crisis in Mexico to investigate whether and how labor market shocks, as proxied by changes in the gender- and age-specific unemployment rates in the met

In this paper we investigate whether a conditional cash transfer program such as the Programa Nacional de Educación, Salud y Alimentación (PROGRESA) can simultaneously combat the problems of low school attendance and child work.

Using data from fieldwork conducted in Nepal, the impact of a project designed to commercialize vegetables and fruits — the Vegetable and Fruit Cash Crop Program (VFC)— on male and female time allocation is examined.

This paper explores the relationship between group membership and trust.

This paper examines the impact of wheat transfers and cash incomes on wheat consumption and wheat markets.

PROGRESA is one of the Mexican government’s major programs aimed at developing the human capital of poor households. Its 1999 budget of about $777 million equaled 0.2 percent of Mexico’s gross domestic product (GDP).

In the past two decades, China has achieved world renown for reducing rural poverty. However, it is becoming harder to reduce poverty and inequality further in China, even though its economy continues to grow.

Food and agricultural systems in developing countries connect with the rest of the economy and with the world through a network of markets.

This report investigates the income and equity effects of macroeconomic policy reforms in Zimbabwe, emphasizing linkages between macroeconomic policies and agricultural performance and agriculture's influence on aggregate income and its distr

This study investigates the effects of childcare on work and earnings of mothers in poor neighborhoods of Guatemala City.