While not sufficient to bring social safety nets to scale, the presence of policies, laws and legal frameworks are part of setting up robust institutions to support social safety net scale-up. Social protection...
Within the ministries selected for the management of social safety net programs, there are five main categories of management units effectively responsible for the daily management of social safety net...
Of the 10 most unequal countries in the world today, 7 are in Africa. Excluding these countries (five of which have populations of less than 5 million and most of which are in Southern Africa) and controlling...
Poverty reduction is not just a matter of improving incomes. Other dimensions that people value, and that cannot be measured by looking at income, include the ability to read and write, the ability to...
According to World Bank estimates from household surveys, the share of people in Africa living on less than $1.90 a day fell from 56 percent in 1990 to 43 percent in 2012. Limiting the estimation to comparable...
The recent flagship report ‘poverty in a rising Africa’ focuses on answering the question as to how much growth averaging 4.5 percent over the past two decades has improved the well-being of Africans as...
Dozens of countries have implemented cash transfer programs. In at least 20 studies, researchers have measured how people who receive the transfers spend their money. They compare that to how people who...