Impact Initiative - Livelihoods: Recent submissions
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From Precarious Work to Obsolete Labour? Implications of Technological Disemployment for Geographical Scholarship
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)The displacement of jobs via mechanization and automation has long been understood as uncomfortable for labourers but also an intrinsic part of a process of ‘creative destruction’ leading to further growth in capitalist ... -
Aiming High and Falling Low: The SADA-Northern Ghana Millennium Village Project
(Elsevier, 2020)This article assesses the impact of the Northern Ghana Millennium Village Project. We estimate project effects on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) indicators using a difference-in-difference approach applied to ... -
A School Meals Program Implemented at Scale in Ghana Increases Height-for-Age during Midchildhood in Girls and in Children from Poor Households: A Cluster Randomized Trial
(Oxford University Press, 2019)Attention to nutrition during all phases of child and adolescent development is necessary to ensure healthy physical growth and to protect investments made earlier in life. Leveraging school meals programs as platforms to ... -
The effect of health insurance reform: Evidence from China
(Elsevier, 2019)This paper estimates the impact of a health insurance reform on health outcomes in urban China. Using the China Health and Nutrition Survey1 we find that this reform increases the rate of health insurance coverage significantly ... -
Effects of Youth Savings Accounts on School Attendance and Academic Performance: Evidence from a Youth Savings Experiment
(Springer, 2018)Asset-accumulation interventions are promising tools for promoting better educational outcomes. However, little is known about the educational effects of youth-owned assets, particularly in resource-limited countries. The ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Modern Slavery, Environmental Degradation and Climate Change: Fisheries, Field, Forests and Factories
(SAGE, 2019)In this commentary paper, the current state of research on the tightly connected and bi-directional relationships among modern slavery, environmental degradation and climate change is critically assessed and reviewed. An ... -
Climate Change Adaptation and Precarity Across the Rural-urban Divide in Cambodia: Towards a 'Climate Precarity' Approach
(SAGE, 2019)An emerging body of work has critiqued the concept of climate adaptation, highlighting the structural constraints impeding marginalised communities across the Global South from being able to adapt. This article builds on ... -
Mobilising Hydrosocial Power: Climate Perception, Migration and the Small Scale Geography of Water in Cambodia
(Elsevier Ltd, 2019)As successive reports have predicted tens or even hundreds of millions of people displaced by climate change in the coming decades, the politics of climate migration has moved to the forefront of contemporary public ... -
Debt-bonded Brick Kiln Workers and Their Intent to Return: Towards a Labour Geography of Smallholder Farming Persistence in Cambodia
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2019)Despite the increasing preponderance of non‐farm work in Cambodia, labour migrants across a range of working conditions remain linked to their rural homesteads through durable financial and social arrangements. This article ... -
Blood Bricks: Untold Stories of Modern Slavery and Climate Change from Cambodia
(Royal Holloway, University of London, 2018)Blood bricks embody the converging traumas of modern slavery and climate change in our urban age. Cambodia is in the midst of a construction boom. The building of office blocks, factories, condominiums, housing estates, ... -
The Cost-Effectiveness of Complex Projects: A Systematic Review of Methodologies
(Institute of Development Studies, 2018-09-30)Most development interventions are complex, comprising several interacting activities affecting multiple outcomes. Impact evaluations of such interventions are widespread, but the literature offers little guidance on how ... -
The Top 1 Percent in International and Historical Perspective
(American Economic Association, 2013)The top 1 percent income share has more than doubled in the United States over the last 30 years, drawing much public attention in recent years. While other English-speaking countries have also experienced sharp increases ... -
The Impact of Development on Violent Nature
(OMICS International, 2012)It is well established that development impacts on disaster outcomes and our coping with extreme and uncertain natural hazards. Evidence includes through data available from the annual Human Development Reports of the ...