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The challenges of the demographic dividend for African countries

The implementation of population related public policies in Africa will only have the anticipated effects if a certain number of issues are tackled: harmful traditional practices, the stereotypes rega...

Improving the identification of multiple causes of death in the absence of death certificates

Health developments represent a challenge for healthcare systems and public policy alike. High-income countries developed the multiplecauses-of-death approach, which takes into account all the causes...

Riche

Interventions in Contexts of Armed Conflict

Recent experience shows that development projects must avoid various pitfalls when working to stabilize conflict zones. Mediation, reintegration, and negotiation projects must not neglect political mo...

Savoye

Conflict prediction using Kernel density estimation

Being able to assess conflict risk at local level is crucial for preventing political violence or mitigating its consequences. This paper develops a new approach for predicting the timing and location...

Intellectual Property Rights Protection and Trade: An Empirical Analysis

The paper proposes an empirical analysis of the determinants of the adoption of intellectual property rights (IPR) and their impact on innovation in manufacturing. The analysis is conducted with panel...

Poggi

Youth of Niger: entrepreneurship between struggle and norms renegotiation

Niger’s 10-year focus on youth entre-preneurship has achieved limited results. It needs to be better funded, coordinated and complemented by a more holistic industrial policy and si-gnificant improvem...

Youth of Niger: schooling and training as useful tools for inclusion

Education and training can help drive escapes from poverty, and education policy needs to understand and deal with each barrier to this goal. Govern-ment and donors need to allocate in-creased budgets...

Youth of Niger: migration as a double-edged sword for labour inclusion

Migration is a major livelihood strate-gy for young men in Niger, with the potential to aid household escapes from poverty. However, there are obstacles to achieving sustained poverty escapes that nee...

Social Assistance for Informal workers

This paper exposes the measures extended to informal workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study analyzes two South-American countries which have a high percentage of informality, Colombia and Bra...

Estimating the distributional incidence of healthcare spending on maternal health services in Sub-Saharan Afri...

Improving access to maternal health services is a critical policy concern, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) where maternal mortality rates remain very high, particularly so among the poorest seg...

Who bears the burden of climate variability? A comparative analysis of the impact of weather conditions on ine...

Is climate variability regressive? One argument could be as follows: People living in areas with high risk of climate hazards usually correspond to the most disadvantaged populations. Due to existing...

Social Protection: The Impact on Inequality in Ethiopia, India, and Peru

Three large-scale social protection schemes - the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) in Ethiopia; the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India; and the Juntos condi...

Social Protection: The Impact on Multidimensional Poverty in Ethiopia, India, and Peru

Three large-scale social protection schemes - the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) in Ethiopia; the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India; and the Juntos condi...

Social Protection: Impact on household resource allocation and Child Undernutrition

Three large-scale social protection schemes – the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) in Ethiopia; the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India; and the Juntos conditional cash tra...

Climate Variability and Inequality: Comparing the Experiences of Indonesia and Vietnam

Households in Indonesia and Vietnam that are poor, rural, older, headed by women, and/or from ethnic minorities bear the biggest burden of variability in climatic conditions. New research investigate...

The Impact of Climate Variability on Inequality: Evidence from Indonesia

Households in Indonesia that are rural, older, larger, and/or headed by women experience worsening income, deeper poverty, and social exclusion as a consequence of climate instability.  New rese...