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Clientelism, corruption and the rule of lawPart of Journal Special Issue Clientelist Politics and Development
Clientelism Development Benefit programmesWorking Paper
Agricultural risks, the COVID-19 pandemic, and farm household welfare and diversification strategies in AfricaAgricultural activities in many African countries are bedevilled by a range of risk factors...
Risk COVID-19 Household welfareWorking Paper
Gender preference at birth: A new measure for son preference based on stated preferences and observed measures of parents' fertility decisionsInvestigating preference for sons is a continuing focal area of development economics and demographic research...
Human fertility Family planning WelfareWorking Paper
Inclusion amid ethnic inequality: Insights from Brazil’s social protection systemPolicy frames in Brazil have long run up against conflicting visions and understandings about the causes and consequences of group-based inequality. This paper argues that a class-based lens has dominated the social protection framework...
Group-based inequality Poverty RaceReport
Policy in the time of pandemic: Social transfers in South Africa during the coronavirus national lockdown, 2020This case study details the policy choices and decisions of the South African government to provide economic relief, through social grants, to vulnerable South Africans and those resident in South Africa to enable them to withstand the effects of the...
COVID-19 Welfare PolicyJournal Article
Rural financial intermediation and poverty reduction in Ghana: A micro-level analysisTHIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | The 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 financi...
Rural financial intermediation Poverty reduction WelfareJournal Article
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 – IV LASSO – that allows for the treatment of unconfoundedness in the selection of observables and unobservabl...
Wage gap Households Women's empowermentWorking Paper
Clientelism, public goods provision, and governanceIt is widely believed that clientelism—the giving of material goods in return for electoral support—is associated with poorer development outcomes...
Clientelism Development Benefit programmesWorking Paper
Dynastic measures of inter-generational mobility with empirical evidence from IndonesiaWe suggest a simple and flexible criterion to assess inter-generational mobility...
Intergenerational Mobility Education WelfareWorking Paper
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...
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 GenderIn the media
Income diversification in Sub-Saharan Africa – UNU-WIDER and UONGOZI Institute's research on Tanzanian television
Income diversification Tanzania Livelihoods Working 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 Poverty