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The benefits of financial support after job loss and why programme design matters more than we think
In January 2022, the US suspended Ethiopia’s eligibility for the African Growth and Opportunity Act, ending Ethiopia’s preferential trade access to the US market, and leading to a major increase in tariffs, the loss of key buyers, and, at some compan...
Air Pollution: VoxDevLit Launch Event
Air pollution is the world’s leading environmental health risk, and its burden falls overwhelmingly on low- and middle-income countries where populations are most exposed and least able to protect themselves.
When empowerment raises incomes – and early pregnancies
A five-year randomised trial across Tanzania finds that entrepreneurship training delivered to young women before family obligations set in produces lasting income gains, but both economic and reproductive-health programmes unexpectedly increased ear...
How conflict shocks travel along food supply chains
Conflict disrupting transport routes in Somalia raises food prices and worsens household welfare in distant, peaceful markets, showing that the economic costs of violence travel far beyond the front line through supply chains. Aid strategies focused ...
