All VoxDevTalks
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Designing financial services and social protection programmes to enhance women’s economic empowerment
Financial inclusion programmes must be designed to ensure that women can act with financial independence
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State-building on the margin: An urban experiment in Medellín
The success of an intervention to increase state presence in gang-controlled neighbourhoods depended on the initial level of gang vs state governance
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Can workfare programmes moderate conflict? Evidence from India
Through providing guaranteed employment for a period, workfare programmes provide insurance against the shocks to income that can lead to conflict
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Seasonal liquidity, rural labour markets, and agricultural production
Loans allowed low-income households to reallocate labour away from the market and back onto their own farms, and thereby improve their own harvests
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Anticipatory cash transfers in climate disaster response
Acting ahead of a disaster increases the choice for households to navigate the shock on their own terms
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Do asset transfers build household resilience?
Incorporating a measure of resilience in anti-poverty programmes can help predict poverty dynamics and sustainability
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Using cash transfers to improve child health in low- and middle-income countries
Conditional cash transfers improve child health outcomes in the short term and can improve educational outcomes in the longer term
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How the Airbel Impact Lab creates cost-effective impact
The Airbel Impact Lab designs, tests and scales life-changing solutions for people affected by conflict and disaster
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Alternative dispute resolution in Liberia
Alternative dispute resolution reduced the number of prolonged and unresolved disputes, and meant that disputes were less likely to turn violent