Poor rural and urban households in developing countries face substantial risks, which they
handle with risk‐management and risk‐coping strategies, including self‐insurance through …

In recent years, significant advances have been made in better understanding the complex
relationships between health and development. This reflects the combined effects of …

We provide evidence on the economic and well-being impact of the Covid-19 lockdown on a
sample of households in rural Uganda. Our sample consists of 1,277 households randomly …

While food security measurement has been substantially expanded in recent decades, there
persists significant dissatisfaction with existing measurement systems, especially in the …

This paper uses a unique survey conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey to
analyze men's and women's time use under lockdown. The study finds that while men's …

Over the next 20 years, most low-income countries will, for the first time, become more urban
than rural. Understanding demographic trends in the cities of the developing world is critical …

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the world was living a learning crisis. Before the
pandemic, 258 million children and youth of primary-and secondary-school age were out of …

Through close scrutiny of empirical materials and interviews, this book uniquely analyzes all
the episodes of long-running, widespread communal violence that erupted during …

Safety nets are noncontributory transfer programs targeted to the poor or vulnerable. They
play important roles in social policy. Safety nets redistribute income, thereby immediately …

Do aggregate income shocks, such as those caused by macroeconomic crises or droughts,
reduce child human capital? The answer to this question has important implications for …