This article examines whether conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have had a significant effect on reducing murder rates in Mexico and Brazil, using time-series municipal-level data on murders in ...

The world's largest conditional cash transfer programme, the Bolsa Família Programme (BFP), is associated with a substantial reduction in AIDS cases and deaths, especially among brown and black women ...

A landmark study involving more than 12 million Brazilian women over nine years indicates that the Bolsa Família Programme significantly reduced AIDS incidence by up to 47% and AIDS-related mortality ...

In 2019, I published a study titled “Reexamining the Influence of Conditional Cash Transfers on Migration from a Gendered Lens,” to which Oded Stark has since issued a formal comment. This response ...

Refugees in Igne, Republic of Congo founded an agricultural cooperative to transform small land plots into thriving farms. Credit: Lisungi / World Bank. The Lisungi project has empowered refugee women ...

Edward N. Okeke ([email protected]) is a senior policy researcher in the Department of Economics, Sociology, and Statistics, RAND Corporation, in Arlington, Virginia, and a professor of policy ...

The “Takaful” part of the program gives monthly conditional pensions to vulnerable families, while the “Karama” part gives non-conditional pensions to poor, elderly citizens above 65 years of age and ...

In a new study, researchers recently discovered that Indonesia's national anti-poverty program reduced deforestation by about 30%. The study's findings were published today in Science Advances. "Two ...

WASHINGTON, April 9 (Reuters) - The United States is considering a conditional cash transfer program to help address economic woes that lead migrants from certain Central American countries to trek ...