This paper assesses the performance of government spending on social protection programs in reducing poverty and inequality in Lesotho, applying benefit incidence and microsimulation methods to 2017-2018 household survey data. The paper investigates the distributional effects of actual spending...

The note presents the case of the Nicaragua Social Investment Fund (FISE), which accounts for an impressive record, having financed a significant number of projects in ten years (sixty percent of these benefiting the education sector). Moreover, it reinforced rural water, and municipal...

In the years ahead, development efforts aiming at reducing vulnerability will increasingly have to factor in climate change, and social protection is no exception. This paper sets out the case for climate?responsive social protection and proposes a framework with principles, design features, and...

Ghana administers multiple social protection programs. One of these,pensions provided by the Social Security and National Insurance Trust,has a long history, but others-the Ghana School Feeding Programme,Labor-Intensive Public Works program, Livelihood Empowerment AgainstPoverty program, and...

Ghana administers multiple social protection programs. One, pensions provided by the Social Security and National Insurance Trust, has a long history, but the rest of the programs have been introduced and expanded over the past two decades. This study assesses the performance of the government...

Lesotho has notably high levels of poverty and inequality despite a high level of government spending on social protection programmes. We assess the performance of this spending in reducing consumption poverty and inequality, applying benefit incidence and microsimulation methods to 2017/2018...

President Pranab Mukherjee dedicated to the nation an e-Learning platform that would link thousands of teachers and students for virtual classroom lessons. The latest version of Amrita University's e-Learning platform A-VIEW 3.0 (Amrita Virtual Interactive E-Learning World) was launched by...

This dissertation investigates three understudied components of the social safety net and their effects on household purchasing. In the first chapter, I estimate the effect of the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) on household food spending. The SFSP is intended to serve low-income children who...