Men and women, boys and girls have different experiences of disasters. Gender dynamics
impact both the way they are affected by disasters and their capacity to withstand and …

Provision of low-cost credit to the poor through self-help groups (SHGs) has been embraced
as a key poverty-reduction strategy in developing countries, but evidence on the impact of …

Objectives The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to widen existing gender inequities
worldwide. A growing body of literature assesses the harmful consequences of public health …

Quantitative evidence on the impact of social protection such as livelihood programs (LPs)
on reducing vulnerability to poverty (VtP) is scant. Therefore, this paper aims to estimate VtP …

Policy makers are increasingly interested in strategies to promote resilience and mitigate the
effects of future climatic shocks. Cash transfer programs have had widely documented …

Combining seven years of household data from an original field experiment in villages of
Jharkand, East India, with meteorological data, this paper investigates how Indian Self-Help …

To alleviate impacts of novel coronavirus lockdowns on food security and agri-food value
chains, governments implemented various policy responses, yet there is limited evidence as …

In this policy brief, we summarize the findings of a CGD working paper, The Gendered
Dimensions of Social Protection in the COVID-19 Context. We explore the role of social …

Microfinance groups are a prominent source of small-scale rural credit in many developing
countries. In India, evidence of the impact of the now ubiquitous women-only savings and …

Studies taking into account numerous aspects of climate change, disaster, and risk are
necessary in order to emphasize the diverse issues such as threats to human lives, their …