The notion that social protection should be a key strategy for reducing poverty in developing countries has now been … advocates seeing it as a silver bullet that can tackle multi-dimensional problems of poverty, vulnerability, and inequality and …-Saharan Africa. The power relations we examine include those that operate within and amongst global development agencies, between …

This Element reviews what we know about parental investments and children's human capital in low …-to-middle-income countries (LMICs). First, it presents definitions and a simple analytical framework; then discusses determinants of children …'s human capital in the form of cognitive skills, socioemotional skills and physical and mental health; then reviews estimates …