Social protection
Social protection programmes, such as schemes to reduce poverty, increase employment opportunities, and provide affordable healthcare and insurance to low-income families, are crucial to increased welfare and inclusive growth. Our work on social protection looks at the need, design and impact of various schemes.
Take Home Rations (THR) and cash transfers for maternal and child nutrition in India: A synthesis of evidence and recommendations for policy
Policy brief
Protecting the unprotected: How can social protection reduce the vulnerability of informal workers?
Blog
The local politics of social protection: Programmatic versus non-programmatic distributive politics in Kenya’s cash transfer programmes
Policy brief
No lean season: Migration to escape seasonal famine
Case study
Social protection and job displacement in developing countries
Policy brief
Growth brief: Transforming the economic lives of the ultra-poor
Growth brief
Lessons learned from a scale-up of a seasonal migration RCT in Bangladesh
Policy brief
Can the microcredit model be improved?
Blog
Rural-to-urban migration: Improving labour market prospects
Blog
Basic entrepreneurship: A big new idea in development
Project
Adapting to climate change through temporary migration in Bangladesh
Blog
Apples, oranges and other fruit: Different forms of poverty
Blog
Scaling up social protection: Price & productivity effects on growth
Blog
Should graduation programmes replace the more conventional cash transfers?
Blog
Do cash transfers make the poor work less?
Blog
The political paradox of cash transfers
Blog
The tale and maths of universal basic income
Blog
Is India ready for a universal basic income scheme?
Blog