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Unemployment benefits are very effective in highly informal labour markets

Evidence from Mauritius shows the consequences of losing a formal job in a labour market characterised by high rates of informal employment are significant. Unemployment benefits help mitigate these effects, while generating only small disincentive e...

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Hannah Liepmann Clemente Pignatti

Published

20.03.24

Universal basic income in Kenya

What are the effects of a universal basic income in Kenya?

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Tavneet Suri

Published

06.03.24

Do ultra-poor graduation programmes build resilience against droughts? Evidence from rural Ethiopia

A relatively light-tough graduation model serves to buffer households - and women in particular - from the adverse effects of drought in Ethiopia

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Kalle Hirvonen Daniel Gilligan Jessica Leight Heleene Tambet Victor Villa

Published

23.02.24

Fighting urban poverty: Public works increase the welfare of the poor in Addis Ababa by 20%

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

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Simon Franklin Clément Imbert Girum Abebe Carolina Mejia-Mantilla

Published

16.01.24

Empowering women in Tunisia through cash grants and financial training

A cash grant and training programme had a range of benefits for women in Tunisia, but only improved participation in income-generating activities for women who attended training without their partner

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Jules Gazeaud Nausheen Khan Eric Mvukiyehe Olivier Sterck

Published

15.12.23

Reforming India’s public works scheme raised incomes

Improving the payment infrastructure for India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme raised incomes — mostly through increases in non-programme earnings

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Karthik Muralidharan Paul Niehaus Sandip Sukhtankar

Published

30.10.23