An empowerment programme in Sierra Leone that supported girls through a simple life skills and livelihood training buffered adolescent girls from the adverse effects of the Ebola crisis.

Income differences between high- and low-income countries reflect differences in technology adoption and skill endowments. Ensuring the right worker finds the right job - improving worker-job matching – can play an important role in realising the gains of technology and endowment upgrading.

Evidence from the Jobs of the World Project shows that as countries develop they undergo three broad transformations in the organisation of labour: the marketisation of work, the emergence of wage work, and the fractionalisation of labour into specia...

While vocational training helps young job seekers find work, overconfidence in finding a job has important long-term effects on job-seeking behaviour

Policy delivery agents perform better when working with members of their own social groups thereby affecting the efficiency of policy interventions

Does poverty continue due to differences in ability or limited access to opportunities?

Giving government procurement officers more leeway in decision-making over expenses could save billions

New study offers perhaps the first empirical example of poverty traps and shows that one-off transfers can provide a sustainable route out of poverty

Evidence from Uganda shows both vocational training and within-firm training help workers find better-paid jobs, but with crucial differences