Women’s decisionmaking indicators are widely used in social science research, though insufficient attention is given to measurement issues.
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América Latina es el continente que se ha movilizado en forma consistente en cuanto al desarrollo, la adopción e implementación de estrategias de protección social que cubren aspectos de salud, nutrición, educación y trabajo entre otros factores d
There is increasing interest in understanding if social protection can foster social cohesion, particularly between refugees and host communities.
This case study summarizes the impact of a short-term food, cash, and voucher program targeted to the urban poor in Northern Ecuador.
Costing alternative transfer modalities
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.
Cash, food, or vouchers?
With support from the Government of Spain, and in partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP), researchers from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) evaluated four pilot projects to assess the comparative performance of cas
The debate over whether to provide food assistance and the form that this assistance should take has a long history in economics.