This case study summarizes the impact of a short-term food, cash, and voucher program targeted to the urban poor in Northern Ecuador.
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Women who live in marginalized urban areas are underincreased pressure to work outside the home inincome-generating activities.The scarcity of child care alterna-tives can be a severe constraint to their household’s liveli-hood, food, and nutritio
Malnutrition affects one out of every three pre-school-age children living in developing countries.
While ample evidence documents that urban children generally have better nutritional status than their rural counterparts, recent research suggests that urban malnutrition is on the rise.
Malnutrition affects one out of every three preschool-age children living in developing countries.This disturbing, yet preventable, state of affairs causes untold suffering and, given its wide scale, presents a major obstacle to the development pr
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Childcare and work
This study investigates the effects of childcare on work and earnings of mothers in poor neighborhoods of Guatemala City.
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.
High urbanization rates in Latin America are accompanied by an increase in women’s participation in the labor force and the number of households headed by single mothers.
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Peru
IFPRI analyzed Peru’s comedores populares (community kitchens) and associated programs to identify lessons for future urban projects.
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Perú
IFPRI analyzed Peru’s comedores populares (community kitchens) and associated programs to .identify lessons for future urban projects.
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.