Burkina Faso

Are flexible cash grants or earmarked grants for technical training and consulting services more suitable to boost profits, employment and survival of small firms? New evidence from Burkina Faso that directly compares both types of support shows that...

A school feeding programme in northern Burkina Faso increased school attendance and girls’ enrolment.

Providing free access to all modern contraceptive products for three years in local public health centres in rural Burkina Faso had no detectable effect on birth rates, suggesting that fertility levels are in line with how many children families want...

Warrantage is an innovative model of rural finance which improves access to credit and crop storage. In Burkina Faso, warrantage increased farmers’ sales revenues, which they spent on education, health, livestock, and future farm capital.

Women have a stronger preference for contraceptive vouchers than their spouses in monogamous households, but a weaker preference in polygynous ones

A high-quality intensive family planning radio campaign increased contraception uptake by 20%

Creating village-level cooperatives to buy grain from outside sources and sell it locally reduced nutritional stress, especially among the young

While the state benefits more from industrial than artisanal mining, only artisanal mines increase the consumption of local populations