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Technological Innovation and Sustainable Intensification
FLAGSHIP 2
Economywide Factors Affecting Agricultural Growth and Rural Transformation
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Social Protection for Agriculture and Resilience
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SOCIAL CASH TRANSFERS
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April 2, 2019
Cash transfers and intimate partner violence
Cash transfers are a promising tool to reduce intimate partner violence, but can they be effective across diverse contexts and program design? In this blog, Melissa Hidrobo and Shalini Roy identify three policy-relevant knowledge gaps related to the potential of transfer programs to reduce IPV, then address them drawing on case studies from Ecuador, Bangladesh, and Mali.
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Blog
January 24, 2019
Journal article: Cash transfers increase trust in local government
In their recent paper in World Development, David Evans, Brian Holtemeyer, and Katrina Kosec explore how conditional cash transfer programs can impact trust in government, and how the information available to citizens affects this relationship.
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Webinar
December 5, 2018
WEBINAR: Aspirations, trust, and poverty reduction
Understanding the psychological dimensions of poverty is critical for understanding how to alleviate it. This webinar with Katrina Kosec on Dec 19 will highlight novel research on two psychological phenomena that are closely linked with experiencing poverty and economic vulnerability: 1) having low aspirations, or ambitions, for the future, and 2) having low levels of trust or confidence in one’s government.
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Blog
April 30, 2018
Why is social protection important for agriculture and resilience? Watch our colleagues explain! (Part 2, Harold Alderman)
Harold Alderman, senior research fellow at IFPRI and collaborator in PIM’s “Social Protection for Agriculture and Resilience” research flagship, speaks about the importance of transfer programs, how they can be improved, and how researchers can help in design of such programs. What else is required if social protection programs are to go beyond poverty alleviation and become graduation programs as well?
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April 29, 2018
Why is social protection important for agriculture and resilience? Watch our colleagues explain! (Part 1, Daniel Gilligan)
In this video, Daniel Gilligan, senior research fellow at IFPRI and leader of PIM's research flagship “Social Protection for Agriculture and Resilience”, discusses why social protection programs, such as cash transfers, food rations, school meals, and public works are now a leading strategy that governments use to help reduce poverty and help households to become more resilient.
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March 5, 2018
Webinar: Cash transfer programs and intimate partner violence – Lessons from 3 case studies around the globe
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is the most pervasive form of violence globally—with 1 in 3 women physically or sexually abused by a partner in her lifetime. Several recent studies find evidence that cash transfer programs, targeted primarily to women, can reduce IPV. In this webinar, we will describe a framework for potential pathways through which transfers can affect IPV and showcase results from 3 studies (Ecuador, Bangladesh, and Mali).
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September 13, 2016
PIM social protection team receives Best of UNICEF Research 2016 award
Each year the United Nations Children’s Fund’s (UNICEF) Office of Research - Innocenti invites the global network to share recently
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