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Stoeffler, Quentin; Mills, Bradford F.; Del Ninno, Carlo - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 83 (2016), pp. 244-263

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Can social programs break the vicious cycle between poverty and obesity? : evidence from urban Mexico

Levasseur, Pierre - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 113 (2019), pp. 143-156

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Selective inclusion in cash transfer programs : unintended consequences for social cohesion

Della Guardia, Anne; Lake, Milli; Schnitzer, Pascale - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 157 (2022), pp. 1-12

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Sustaining poverty gains : a vulnerability map to guide social policy

Barriga Cabanillas, Oscar; Bossuroy, Thomas; Corral … - 2024

Poverty maps are a useful tool for the targeting of social programs on areas with high concentrations of poverty …. However, a static focus on poverty ignores the temporal dimension of poverty. Thus, current nonpoor households still face … substantial welfare volatility and are at risk of becoming poor in the face of shocks. We combine the methods of poverty mapping …

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Drought-sensitive targeting and child growth faltering in Southern Africa

Baez, Javier E.; Kshirsagar, Varun; Skoufias, Emmanuel - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 182 (2024), pp. 1-18

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Adaptive safety nets for rural Africa : drought-sensitive targeting with sparse data

Baez, Javier E.; Kshirsagar, Varun; Skoufias, Emmanuel - 2019

This paper combines remote-sensed data and individual child-, mother-, and household-level data from the Demographic and Health Surveys for five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (Malawi, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) to design a prototype drought-contingent targeting framework that...

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