In Uganda, digital cash transfers had contrasting effects on women’s empowerment: mobile money boosted women’s personal income and decision-making power, while jointly disclosed cash transfers reduced intimate partner violence by fostering trust and ...

Can an intermediate, less severe action serve as a stepping stone to eliminating a harmful norm? Research on female genital cutting in Somalia suggests that the intermediate action risks becoming the new norm.

Have vocational training programmes in low- and middle-income countries been an effective development intervention?

How should development programmes that attempt to disseminate improved technologies be phased out?

Lumpsum cash transfers delivered as business grants can spur microentrepreneurial activities

While vocational training helps young job seekers find work, overconfidence in finding a job has important long-term effects on job-seeking behaviour

Female role models improved gender attitudes and educational aspirations of primary school students, with particular impact on boy(s)/male students

Policy delivery agents perform better when working with members of their own social groups thereby affecting the efficiency of policy interventions

Increasing the tenant’s share in output encourages profitable risk-taking, in addition to large effects on input levels