problems, along with a summary of the costs and benefits of some of the solutions. Emphasis is on the results from rigorous …

transfer delivery mechanisms on education, health, and household welfare outcomes. The two-year pilot program randomly … health check-ups. Compared with the control group, cash transfers improve children's education and health and household …. Cash transfers to fathers also yield relatively more household investment in livestock, cash crops, and improved housing …

Rapid economic growth over the past two decades lifted millions of people out of poverty in Central Asia. But the … patchwork of household surveys allows policy makers to monitor progress and identify some spatial disparities. But these share … districts. Islands of poverty and prosperity are thus lost in the averages -- leading to targeting inaccuracies that can slow …

districts have better average living standards than otherwise similar districts: larger household consumption, lower poverty …

then defined and, using panel data from the Consortium of Household Panels for European Socio-Economic Research, this paper …

increases over the next three decades will affect household-level welfare in India. The authors predict a substantial fall in … consumption for the majority of rural households, who derive their income largely from wage employment. Overall, the welfare costs … the non-poor, since they own the lion's share of agricultural land. The results suggest that poverty in India will be …

of poverty but fairly decent living conditions. By contrast, most of Nairobi's slum residents have jobs and comparatively … levels are high, but living conditions are not as bad as in Nairobi. These findings suggest that reduction in income poverty … conditions. Since not all slum residents are poor, living conditions also vary within slums depending on poverty status. Compared …

nationally representative household surveys and making an explicit attempt to account for one of the inherent costs associated …This paper explores the impact of remittances on poverty, education, and health in 11 Latin American countries using … following: (1) regardless of the counterfactual used remittances appear to lower poverty levels in most recipient countries; (2 …

Despite record economic growth for more than a decade, poverty has remained stubbornly high in Afghanistan, especially … intensity at the province level over period 2007-14 with a model of consumption at the household level in 2011. Provincial data … Afghan) and larger aid flows. Household data show that the negative impact of conflict on consumption was more than offset by …