Philippines

The National Greening Program, a large-scale tree planting programme in the Philippines, not only contributes to carbon sequestration but also promotes poverty reduction and job creation.

Income increases for international migrants from the Philippines fostered economic development and investments in education in migrant-origin communities.

Opportunities for nurses to migrate abroad can increase the supply of educated nurses at home

Education emergencies require resilient solutions: A cheap phone tutoring programme can be highly effective across contexts, emergency types, and implementer profiles, pointing to its potential scalability

Encouraging the poor to set higher savings aspirations may backfire if they fall short of these goals, leading to less economic investment

Cash transfers raised food prices and increased stunting among children from ineligible households in remote and poor areas

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

Land reforms, whilst well-intended, misallocate land and labour across farms, thereby reducing average farm size and agricultural productivity

A little information goes a long way towards shifting clientelist electoral systems from vote-buying to policy-based competition