We provide new evidence of the heterogeneous impact of the Philippines' conditional cash transfer (CCT) program …

This report analyzes the Philippines’ ambitious response to the economic risks and dislocation wrought by the Covid-19 … that strongly orient social protection systems to poverty reduction rather than universal rights and entitlements to …

and examine the role of different shock categories on asset accumulation. In addition, we detect region, country and …

the most vulnerable countries to climatic shifts, this paper aims to contribute to poverty studies in the Philippines by … analyzing the poverty-rainfall shock nexus. The paper finds that rainfall shocks affect wages and income, which in turn, affect … that points to climate change resulting in altered patterns of weather parameters and given that the Philippines is one of …

Poverty simulations suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures implemented by the government to contain the …

A cash transfer programme 'Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty' has been implemented with the aim of addressing … poverty and vulnerability in Ghana. This study looks at the impact of this conditional cash transfer programme on households …

This paper assesses the effects on poverty and inequality of the alternative targeting approaches that Zambia's Social … government introduced support based on giving actual cash through social cash transfers aimed at reducing poverty and … of social cash transfers, nationwide extreme poverty would be 1.6 percentage points higher than otherwise. The results …