welfare

A public works programme in Ethiopia improves welfare for the urban poor both directly for participants and indirectly through increasing private sector wages and improving amenities

How did the Londö public works programme in the Central African Republic affect participants' welfare?

The extension of social pensions in Namibia in the 1990s led to a rapid, substantial decline in fertility

A non-contributory pension scheme substantially improved consumption and wellbeing, and reduced the number of over-65s in poverty doing paid work

What are the effects of trade amidst a large informal sector? New research studies a model tightly connected to data on firms and workers in Brazil

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

Incomplete and abandoned sewerage projects can increase risks of early life mortality and impose significant public health costs on populations

As countries become greater economic friends in terms of the welfare effects of their productivity growth, they become greater political friends in terms of United Nations voting and strategic rivalries.

The construction of the Golden Quadrilateral has seen unequal gains in manufacturing income across states, largely due to proximity to the highway