Blog
November 21, 2021
Better understanding of how these informal support mechanisms function can provide important policy implications for who may need additional support from formal social protection programs.
Blog
July 24, 2021
Analysis of the impacts of Pakistan’s Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) on household and individual adult labor supply find evidence of a positive effect of the transfers on male labor.
Publications
June 24, 2021
Learn how PIM research in 2020 supported policies and strategic decisions, including response to the COVID-19 pandemic, across the globe.
Blog
February 1, 2021
Ethiopia offers an encouraging case for designing more effective policies and interventions to combat food and nutrition insecurity during COVID-19 pandemic.
Events
June 9, 2020
This virtual seminar presents evidence on how social safety nets have been used to respond to COVID-19 and how well this response has addressed food security and nutrition.
Blog
April 30, 2020
How is the current crisis affecting gender relations, and why is attention to gender in implementing expanded social protection programs critical?
Blog
March 18, 2020
Our colleagues discuss five priority research gaps to advance understanding of how to leverage social protection for gender equality and the well-being of women and girls.
Events
February 6, 2020
Global evidence suggests that cash transfer programs, when combined with nutrition specific modalities, have the potential to improve child nutrition. But how much of those nutrition interventions would be enough to lead to sustainable improvements is yet not well understood. This seminar will aim to address remaining knowledge gaps on program design and policy options to make CT programming in the region more nutrition sensitive.