Interventions targeting adolescent girls are seen as a key component in the fight to break the cycle of poverty in … the empowerment of adolescent girls in Malawi during and immediately after the two-year intervention. We find that the … program, which transferred cash directly to school-age girls as well as their parents, had effects on a broad range of …

This paper evaluates a randomized controlled trial of a cash transfer program for the girls' education by studying the …

girls and women in the Global South? Is it a solution to ending poverty? Or is it a pursuit of economic growth and corporate …, social responsibility, and business practices of various corporations use a logic of development that positions girls and … gendered poverty and inequality, yet do so using an instrumental logic that shifts the burden of development onto girls and …

We examine the impact of a large, randomized Girls' Education Challenge (GEC) project in rural Zimbabwe. The … multifaceted project initially provided information about girls' rights and education barriers to girls, parents, teachers, and …

program offers cash benefits to households conditional on girls' regular attendance in secondary grades in government schools …. The study evaluates the evolution of the program's effects on girls' secondary school enrollment numbers over roughly a … effects on girls' secondary school enrollment numbers throughout the period and that these effects were stable. This pattern …