Cash transfers are an increasingly popular approach to poverty and vulnerability reduction, including, more recently, in humanitarian contexts. In the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the National Palestinian Cash Transfer Programme provides quarterly payments to extremely poor households. As...

Young Lives is an international longitudinal study on childhood poverty and policy in Ethiopia, India (Andhra Pradesh), Peru and Vietnam. This paper draws on examples from Young Lives quantitative and qualitative research and analyses to illustrate how household decisions and the policy context...