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Integrated school-based interventions to advance gender equality can achieve lasting changes in regressive attitudes and behaviours

Despite evidence of increasing household wages, anti-poverty schemes in India can have an adverse effect by lowering human capital investment

Asset transfers can expand household-based economic activity, but can also draw more children into the labour force when other labour is unavailable

Information on raising children is more important in the first two years of a child’s life, whereas cash plays a bigger role from age 2 to 4

Access to soap dispensers combined with monitoring and incentives increased handwashing and generated substantial improvements in child health

In the midst of the Ebola crisis an empowerment programme acts as a shield for adolescent girls

Money in the hands of mothers increases expenditure on children. Does this human capital investment promote economic growth in developing countries?

Mexico’s conditional cash transfer programme improved the life of disadvantaged children even when not explicitly targeted