Both the number of forcibly displaced people and the demand for financing for humanitarian response have increased over the last five years. While financing for humanitarian needs has reached a historic high in 2016 with3.9 billion committed to UNCHR, the needs continue to grow at an even faster...

Though social protection in sub-Saharan Africa is intensive to alleviate food insecurity of the vulnerable group such as women, its impact on the food security status of female-headed rural households has not been well documented. Accordingly, the present study aims to evaluate the effect of the...

While there is increasing consensus in the academic debate on the regressive nature of energy subsidies and the necessity to reduce them, this is much less so for food subsidy reforms – not least because of the positive impact of food subsidies for food security. They make food affordable even...