Impact Initiative: Recent submissions
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School Banking as a Strategy for Strengthening Youth Economic Participation in Developing Countries: Lessons from YouthSave
(Springer, 2018)Schools are the primary settings where both education and health services are delivered to youth in developing countries. A similar approach can be used for financial inclusion. Financial inclusion, in turn, can lead to ... -
Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) Programme Endline Impact Evaluation Report
(Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, 2018)This report presents results from the six-year follow-up evaluationof the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) cash transfer programme, Ghana’s flagship social protection programme. Baseline data was collected on ... -
Ghana LEAP 1000 Programme: Endline Evaluation Report
(UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti, 2018)The Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) Programme is Ghana’s flagship social protection programme that began in 2008. It is implemented by the LEAP Management Secretariat (LMS) and the Department of Social Welfare ... -
Systematic Reviews of Cost-effectiveness in Low and Middle Income Countries: a Review of Reviews
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)We investigate whether systematic reviews of cost-effectiveness analyses of interventions in low and middle income countries are feasible and useful. To this aim, we systematically review systematic reviews of cost-effectiveness ... -
Unravelling the Wider Benefits of Social Pensions: Secondary Beneficiaries of the Older Persons Cash Transfer Program in the Slums of Nairobi
(Elsevier Inc, 2019)A growing number of low and middle income countries have introduced social pension programs for older people. Research has highlighted that the impact of such programs can extend beyond the primary recipient when funds are ... -
Does a General Theory of Welfare Institutions Explain the Expansion of Social Assistance in Low and Middle Income Countries?
(SOCIUM, 2019)What theory can help us to explain the expansion of social assistance in low and middle income countries? Prevailing theories of welfare institutions, including power resources and varieties of capitalism, ... -
The Role of Social Assistance in Reducing Poverty and Inequality in Asia and the Pacific
(Asian Development Bank, 2019)This working paper analyzes the contribution of social protection—especially social assistance—in reducing poverty and inequality and supporting inclusive growth in Asia and the Pacific. The analysis is divided into three ... -
The Informational Basis of Emerging Social Assistance in Low and Middle-income Countries
(University of Manchester, 2018)The paper examines the informational basis of emerging social assistance institutions in low- and middle-income countries. The recent expansion of social assistance presents a challenge to researchers concerned with the ... -
Good Governance and Multidimensional Poverty: A Comparative Analysis of 71 Countries
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 2019)In 2015, the international community committed to “reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions.” According to international development agencies, ... -
Does the Hunger Safety Net Programme Reduce Multidimensional Poverty? Evidence from Kenya
(University of Oxford, 2019)The purpose of this research is to evaluate the short-term impact and long-term sustainability of Kenya’s Hunger Safety Net Programme (HSNP). Difference-in-difference and propensity score matching estimations are used to ... -
Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2019: Illuminating Inequalities
(OPHI/UNDP, 2019)The 2019 global MPI publication Illuminating Inequalities released on 11 July 2019 sheds light on the number of people experiencing poverty at regional, national and subnational levels, revealing inequalities across countries ... -
Evaluation of Programs with Multiple Objectives: Multidimensional Methods and Empirical Application to Progresa in Mexico
(University of Oxford, 2019)Development programs and policy interventions frequently have multiple simultaneous objectives. Existing quantitative evaluation approaches fail to fully accommodate this multiplicity of objectives. In this paper we adapt ... -
The Role of Inequality in Poverty Measurement
(University of Oxford, 2019)The adjusted headcount ratio, or MPI, is widely used by countries and international organizations to track multidimensional poverty and coordinate policy. Several characteristics have encouraged its rapid diffusion: ... -
The MPI as a Tool for Achieving Poverty Reduction Goals
(University of Oxford, 2019)This Policy Briefing describes the process of creating the Multidimensional Poverty Index of Costa Rica as an official tool for measuring poverty, guiding the allocation of resources, and monitoring and evaluating social ... -
How to Explain the Measurement of Multidimensional Poverty to the General Public: Workshop for Journalists in Colombia
(University of Oxford, 2019)In 2011, Colombia made an important change to the way in which poverty is measured. Together with a review of the methodology to measure monetary poverty, the government introduced a new methodology for measuring poverty ... -
Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2018
(University of Oxford, 2018)The 2018 global Multidimensional Pov-erty Index (MPI) is an internationally comparable measure of acute poverty for 105 countries, covering 5.7 billion people (approximately 77% of the global pop-ulation). ... -
Does Aid Reduce Poverty?
(University of Oxford, 2018)Fifty years of literature on aid effectiveness has so far proven inconclusive. Two main challenges still require some attention. The first is to properly identify the causal effect of aid on poverty alleviation. To address ... -
On Data Availability for Assessing Monetary and Multidimensional Poverty
(University of Oxford, 2018)Data availability plays a crucial role in the fight against poverty. Yet, it lags behind the data available on most other economic phenomena. We catalogue and review existing data availability aiming to break the cycle of ... -
The Measurement Properties of Multidimensional Poverty Indices for Children: Lessons and Ways Forward
(University of Oxford, 2018)This paper considers the measurement properties of indices used to measure multidimensional child poverty in the developing world. Two indices are considered in detail: the Alkire Foster method (Alkire & Foster 2010) and ... -
Dynamics of Multidimensional Poverty and Uni-dimensional Income Poverty: an Evidence of Stability Analysis from China
(Springer, 2018)In this paper, we construct an illustrative multidimensional poverty index for China and compare it with income poverty using the panel data from multiple waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey. We use first order ...