Cash transfer programs have become one of the most popular ways to reduce poverty in low-income countries and have made substantial strides in doing so. Recently, attention has turned to the design of these programs, such as whether to target transfers explicitly to women, as well as their impacts beyond household spending
NEW PUBLICATION: The Nutritional Benefits of Cash Transfers in Humanitarian Crises: Evidence from Yemen
This study makes use of a cluster randomized control trial that was left in place when a pilot cash-plus intervention evolved during the civil conflict into a major program within the Yemen Emergency Crisis Response program. The results provide uniquely rigorous evidence of the potential for long-run nutritional benefits of cash transfers in humanitarian crisis settings.
NEW PUBLICATION: Supporting Egypt’s safety net programs for better nutrition and food security, inclusiveness, and effectiveness
Over the years, IFPRI’s research, with support from PIM since 2012, has informed important decisions on Egypt’s key safety net programs, including the food subsidy and the national cash transfer programs. This note summarizes some of the most recent outcomes of this work.
NEW PUBLICATION: Food subsidies and cash transfers in Egypt
Evaluating general equilibrium benefits and trade-offs By Clemens Breisinger, Yumna Kassim, Sikandra Kurdi, Josée Randriamamonjy, and James Thurlow Most Egyptians receive food subsidies, which are the cornerstone of the country’s social protection system. The government recently attempted to reduce subsidies, with limited success, and introduced a cash transfer program targeting the poor. We use a […]
Working Amid War: Assessing Cash Transfers For Nutrition In Yemen
How do you carry out research in the middle of one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world: the civil war in Yemen? This episode features IFPRI Research Fellow Sikandra Kurdi who, in a conversation with Sivan Yosef, tells the story of how Yemen’s Social Fund for Development and IFPRI partnered on the evaluation of a project that […]
