substantial progress along the SDGs by 2030. We estimate the additional spending needed in critical areas of human capital (health …

pulls many households supporting them into poverty. We also show that the household formation responses draw some unemployed …

swamps remittances, this paper finds that remittances, which are a stable, private transfer, have a direct poverty mitigating … remittances, poverty and financial development. The paper posits that formalizing such flows can serve as an effective access …

We study the relationship between housing inequality and crime in South Africa. We create a novel panel dataset … combining information on crimes at the police station level with census data. We find that housing inequality explains a …. An increase of one standard deviation in housing inequality explains between 9 and 13 percent of crime increases …

Poverty has remained widespread in Mozambique, mostly on account of the prevalent war situation. This paper provides a …