We investigate if financial inclusion leads to improved nutrition in rural Rwanda, using Rwandan Integrated Household … improving food expenditure or nutrition. Furthermore, the study reveals heterogeneous marginal effects of financial inclusion in … reducing the gender gap between the food demand and nutrition of femaleand male-headed households. The study provides …

organizations have to decide what and who to fund. Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) has always been an element of the accountability … allocations Here we extend the basic idea of rigorous impact evaluation - the use of a valid counter-factual to make judgments … about causality - to emphasize that the techniques of impact evaluation can be directly useful to implementing organizations …

children's nutrition using the case of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mozambique. In response to the economic downturn, households … child nutrition before and after the pandemic. The results show that there has been a significant reduction in household …

The paper examines the relationship between conflict and entrepreneurial activity in Afghanistan, drawing upon a unique … poor. Conflict has persisted in vast swathes of the country for decades, so that Afghanistan may be more appropriately … described as an in-, rather than post-, conflict country. At the same time, qualitative (and anecdotal) evidence suggests that …

(IV) strategy and geographic conflict variation to estimate reduced-form effects. I show that civil war leads to affected … economic geography model. The model sheds light on different mechanisms through which conflict affects aggregate income …

armed conflict in 2021. The international development community has identified armed conflict as an impediment to …, homicide, and assault, are vastly more prevalent and far more widely distributed across countries than armed conflict. For some …