Health & Education
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Remedying early life weather shocks with Mexico’s PROGRESA
Mexico’s conditional cash transfer programme improved the life of disadvantaged children even when not explicitly targeted
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Scaling an early childhood development and nutrition programme in Colombia
Scaling up early childhood intervention programmes even when resources are constrained can mitigate child poverty
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Evidence to practice: Education reforms
USAID is using evidence to improve the way we teach and learn
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What happens when you teach teenage girls negotiation skills?
Training girls in Zambia to negotiate saw them use strategies to secure household resources to stay in school longer, even in the face of poverty
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Using mobile money to improve access to sanitation services in Dakar
Subsidies see a greater take up of mechanised latrine desludging than mental accounting nudges for better public health
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Evidence to practice: Suicide prevention in Japan
Every 30 seconds, someone in the world commits suicide. Blue lights at railway stations can help tackle this.
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Did MTV really help prevent HIV?
Evidence from Nigeria suggests that edutainment can promote safer sexual practices and reach a large portion of the population at a low cost
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Does China owe its growth to schooling?
Human capital externalities amplify the returns to education in China. Yet this can only explain some of the country's rapid growth.
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Arsenic in tubewell water, a public health emergency in Bangladesh
Evidence from Bangladesh highlights the important role of inducing risk-avoiding behaviour to avoid public health emergencies