This is a joint IFPRI-WFP study on the drivers, profile, and risks of irregular migration in the West Africa context.

Owing to a succession of crises and worsening poverty, food security in Egypt started to deteriorate as early as 2005.

Owing to a succession of crises and worsening poverty, food security in Egypt started to deteriorate as early as 2005.

...Workfare programmes have been used across Asia, Africa, and Latin America to provide the poor with income transfers, help them cope with income shocks, and create assets by constructing much-needed infrastructure—which, once built, can continue

The Nicaraguan Red de Proteccion Social (RPS) suggests that successful safety nets can protect the most affected by crisis without abandoning conditionality." -- from Text

The principal objective of food aid, besides responding to needs created by conflict, and other disasters, should be to provide an insurance function for those events for which existing insurance mechanisms function poorly

Poverty maps are easily used, easily understood, and objectively verifiable.

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.

Poverty maps are easily used, easily understood, and objectively verifiable.

Poverty maps are easily used, easily understood, and objectively verifiable.