This working paper makes the case for quickly expanding cash transfer programs across Sub-Saharan Africa to protect children and support economic recovery in 2021. It does so by: (i) describing the economic, poverty and child well-being situation across the region at the end of 2020; (ii)...

The report investigates how COVID-19 and other shocks have impacted child well-being across the region and the potential role of cash transfers and external resources to help children and economies. Drawing on more than 35 databases and a variety of modelling exercises, it presents the...

MDG progress is measured in terms of national averages but these statistical averages often disguise that progress has not accrued to those at the bottom - arguably those who need it most. Social protection is essential to accelerate MDGs with equity by facilitating access to essential services...

The paper reviews poverty trends and measurements, poverty reduction in historical perspective, the poverty-inequality-growth debate, national poverty reduction strategies, criticisms of the agenda and the need for redistribution, international policies for poverty reduction, and ultimately...

The volume presents articles from leading development experts in the areas of poverty reduction, social protection and labor markets policies and programs. Contributors include from Robert Holzmann, Vice-President and Director of The World Bank, to Noriyuki Suzuki, General Secretary of the...

The Handbook is intended to strengthen the design of country program strategies and development projects. It contains poverty methodologies and tools to adequately incorporate issues related to gender, labor, indigenous peoples, and other socially relevant issues such as participation,...