We provide new estimates of the impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) in Ethiopia on child …

microenterprises, much higher than market interest rates. But returns were found to be much higher among men than among women, and … indeed were not different from zero for women. In this paper, we explore different explanations for the lower returns among … local areas are important. We do find evidence that women invested the grants differently from men. A smaller share of the …

households and that both approaches confirm poverty is mainly transient in rural Ethiopia. However, we find that the trend in …This study aims to explore poverty measures, its dynamics and determinants using Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI …) and consumption poverty. Our results show that the two measures assign similar poverty status to about 52 percent of …

counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposing changes in inequality/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the …

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively estimated using growth estimates for 2020 and two dierent scenarios for its … 2020, the pandemic (and the observed private and policy responses) has generated at least 68 million additional poverty …

This paper provides a framework for analyzing constraints that apply specifically to women, which theory suggests may … have negative impacts on child outcomes (as well as on women). We classify women's constraints into four dimensions: (i … women's constraints on child outcomes using nationally representative household Demographic and Health Survey data from …