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Do gender wage differences within households influence women’s empowerment and welfare?: Evidence from GhanaUsing household data from the latest wave of the Ghana Living Standards Survey, this paper utilizes machine learning techniques to examine the effect of gender wage differences within households on women’s empowerment and welfare in Ghana...
Gender wage gap Households Women's empowermentWorking Paper
Can information campaigns reduce last mile payment delays in public works programme?: Evidence from a field experiment in IndiaDoes information dissemination among beneficiaries of welfare programmes mitigate their implementation failures?...
Implementation Information randomizationWorking Paper
Agricultural input subsidy and farmers outcomes in TanzaniaThis paper examines the impact of the government input subsidy—the National Agriculture Input Voucher—on farmers’ production and welfare in Tanzania as well as the factors that influence agricultural production in the country...
Difference-in-differences Subsidies ProductionWorking Paper
Income diversification and household welfare in Tanzania 2008–2013This paper uses three waves of Tanzanian National Panel Surveys (2008/09, 2010/11, and 2012/13) to construct a panel from 3,676 households that appear in at least two waves to explore the effect of income diversification on household welfare measured...
Income diversification Labour income GenderWorking Paper
Rural financial intermediation and poverty reduction in Ghana: A micro-level analysisThe financial sector in rural areas, where most of the poor people in sub-Saharan Africa are found, has transformed massively in recent times, notably through the increased penetration of several types of rural financial intermediaries in addition to...
Rural financial intermediation Poverty reduction WelfareJournal Article
Welfare and Redistributive Effects of Social Assistance in the Global SouthPart of Journal Special Issue Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
Social assistance Social protection PovertyJournal Special Issue
Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global SouthThis special issue presents an analysis of the recent evolution of social assistance in the developing world, looking at its complex typological configuration...
Welfare Redistribution Global southWorking Paper
Welfare and redistributive effects of social assistance in the Global SouthThis paper presents an analysis of the recent evolution of social assistance in the developing world, looking at its complex typological configuration, which has interlinked with, and partly reflects the complex demographic and epidemiological transi...
Social assistance Social protection PovertyJournal Article
Identity Documents, Welfare Enhancement, and Group Empowerment in the Global SouthPart of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality
Identity Legal empowerment WelfareBook Chapter
Marital trajectories and women's wellbeing in SenegalFrom the book: Towards Gender Equity in Development
Divorce Senegal WelfareJournal Article
Food access and subjective welfare in a developing countryUnderstanding the relationship between food access and welfare is critical in the design of social welfare policies, but the literature on this relationship is scarce...
Food access Welfare Equivalent scaleWorking Paper
Marital trajectories and women’s wellbeing in SenegalDivorce and widowhood followed by remarriage are common for women in Africa. A key question is how such discontinuous marital trajectories affect women’s wellbeing...
Divorce Senegal WelfareWorking Paper
Energy system and economy-wide implications of a rapid transition to decarbonized energy in South AfricaDeveloped as well as developing countries will have to increase their ambition relative to their stated Nationally Determined Contributions to limit global temperature increases to 2°C above pre-industrial levels...
Energy Climate policy WelfareAbout
Presentation - AL20Martin Ravallion’s WIDER Annual Lecture focused on the economic and political issues surrounding the use of direct interventions, such as cash transfers and in kind contributions, against poverty. He highlighted two key lessons that are...
Poverty Inequality Social protectionVideo
Webcast - AL20View the WIDER Annual Lecture by Martin Ravallion on Direct interventions against poverty in poor places.
Poverty Inequality Social protection