The sudden rollback of Mexico’s landmark conditional cash transfer programme—Prospera, formerly Progresa—affected boys’ educational outcomes disproportionately, offering lessons for policy retrenchment worldwide.

Extreme poverty has declined drastically. Evidence from China, India, Indonesia, Mexico and South Africa sheds light on how this unfolded.

In developing countries, women with at least one sibling who died in childhood face 39% higher odds of losing a child themselves

Conditional transfers in childhood improve education, labour, and economic outcomes in adulthood, especially for women