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Enhancing public works programmes: Sustainable impact through participatory asset creation and digitalisation

Burchi, Francesco; Sakketa, Tekalign Gutu - 2025

Public works programmes (PWPs) are widely used social protection instruments in low- and middle-income countries … evidence indicates that these programmes are usually effective in improving outcomes such as food security and earnings in the … how to enhance the potential of these programmes. • Policy-makers should design PWPs to guarantee stable, reliable …

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More than Just Lunch: School-Meal Subsidies and Language Proficiency

Ayllón, Sara; Lado, Samuel - 2025

This paper is the first to provide, in the European context, credible causal estimates for the impact on educational achievement of a means-tested programme that subsidises school lunches. We use administrative data from the city of Barcelona for the whole universe of applications to the...

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Japan in Southeast Asia: Countering China's growing influence

Sakaki, Alexandra - 2025

dialogues, military exercises and capacity building programmes. ASEAN is important for Japan as the linchpin of regional …

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The Causal Impact of School-Meal Programmes on Children in Developed Economies: A Meta-Analysis

Ayllón, Sara; Lado, Samuel - 2025

This paper is the first to meta-analyse the literature on the causal effects of school-meal programmes on children … results. Once publication bias is accounted for, we find that school-meal programmes in high-income economies have minimal …-tested programmes and breakfast initiatives yield the greatest benefits for children's outcomes. …

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Syria at the crossroads : towards a stabilized transition

Vereinte Nationen / Economic and Social Commission for … - 2025

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Effects of countercyclical policies on women's and men's incomes during the COVID-19 pandemic : a gender analysis of personal taxes and transfers in Colombia, Ecuador and the plurinational state of Bolivia

Collado, Diego; Bidegain, Nicole - 2025

At the fourteenth session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, just weeks before the onset of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, the region’s governments undertook to “implement gender-sensitive countercyclical policies, in order to mitigate the...

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