Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 aims to “achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls,” and gender-specific aspects are embedded in several other SDGs. However, routine national data collection to produce gender data for SDG monitoring and other purposes is limited. Within...

Food safety hazards threaten the health and market access of smallholder farming households. Smallholders face a number of barriers to improving food safety and quality, including low awareness, high input costs, and the failure of premium prices to pass through to producers. In this paper we...

Demand heterogeneity often makes it profitable for firms to price and promote goods and services differently in different market segments. When private consumption brings public benefits, this same heterogeneity can be used to target public subsidies. We explore the design of public–private...