Can digital payments systems help reduce extreme hunger? Humanitarian needs are at their highest since 1945, aid … budgets are falling behind, and hunger is concentrating in fragile states where repression and aid diversion present major … World Food Programme's global figure for cash-based transfers. These savings can help reduce hunger without additional …

Can digital payments help reduce extreme hunger? Humanitarian needs are at their highest since 1945, aid budgets are … falling behind, and hunger is concentrating in fragile states where repression and aid diversion present major obstacles. In … World Food Programme’s global figure for cash-based transfers. These savings can help reduce hunger without additional …

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 …

Current estimates of global poverty vary substantially across studies. In this paper we undertake a novel sensitivity … analysis to highlight the importance of methodological choices in estimating global poverty. We measure global poverty using … different data sources, parametric and nonparametric estimation methods, and multiple poverty lines. Our results indicate that …