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Healing in crisis: Investing in women’s mental health and child development in refugee camps has huge benefits

A low-cost play-based programme for refugee mothers and their children in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh was remarkably effective at improving mental health and wellbeing

Health

Asad Islam Tanvir Ahmed Mozumder Tabassum Rahman Tanvir Shatil Abu Siddique

Published

25.04.24

Beyond security: UN peacekeeping's role in health and family planning

Evidence from Liberia highlights the role of peacebuilding interventions, through providing a ‘security umbrella’ that promotes local economic development and enables health services provision and access, in reducing fertility rates and improving hea...

Institutions & Political Economy

Vincenzo Bove Jessica Di Salvatore Leandro Elia Roberto Nisticò

Published

23.04.24

Habitat Treatment Neighborhood 1 in Guadalajara

Stimulating private sector development through investments in public infrastructure

Investments in local infrastructure that promoted urban livability in Mexico also led to sustained development of the local economy in terms of the size and profitability of private sector firms

Infrastructure

Daniel Rogger Leonardo Iacovone Luis F. Sánchez-Bayardo Craig McIntosh

Published

22.04.24

Medication against misery: How health interventions can address ill health and also prevent conflict

How did a large-scale health intervention – the expansion of HIV antiretroviral therapy – impact the prevalence of violent events throughout Africa?

Institutions & Political Economy

Uwe Sunde Dominic Rohner Matteo Cervellati Elena Esposito Andrea Berlanda

Published

19.04.24

Community health programmes and HIV/AIDS outcomes in Mozambique

A widely implemented HIV/AIDS programme inadvertently decreased HIV testing by worsening misinformation and HIV-related stigmatising attitudes, but a simple follow-up intervention offset the programme’s adverse effects.

Health

Dean Yang James Allen IV Arlete Mahumane James Riddell IV Hang Yu

Published

18.04.24

Can financial redistribution shape attitudes toward refugees?

Policy changes that raise aggregate welfare, but whose benefits are unevenly distributed, are often politically unfeasible. Politicians may recognise the overall gains from refugee integration, for example, but block visas or permits due to local peo...

Migration & Urbanisation

Helidah Ogude-Chambert Travis Baseler Thomas Ginn Olivia Woldemikael Robert Hakiza

Published

17.04.24

Three men at work in a carpentry workshop South Africa

Reexamining whether, when and how developing country governments should provide job training and job search support

Recent evidence offers reasons to be a little more optimistic about job training and intermediation programmes, but there remain some reasons for caution

Labour Markets

Eliana Carranza David McKenzie

Published

16.04.24

The impact of a gender quota on women’s education in Afghanistan

Gender gaps in access to education have persisted in low- and middle-income countries, despite all but closing in high-income countries. Affirmative action for women in public universities in Afghanistan increased the share of women admitted by 32%. ...

Education

Rafiuddin Najam

Published

15.04.24

Tertiarisation like China

China is currently undergoing a rapid process of tertiarisation. This structural change since 2005 has seen productivity increase faster in services than in the manufacturing sector, with both consumer and producer services exhibiting high productivi...

Macroeconomics & Growth

Fabrizio Zilibotti Pei Guangyu Zheng (Michael) Song Xilu Chen

Published

12.04.24