This report captures the multiplier effect of WFP’s voucher modality on the local economy by tracking the changes in key business indicators for a selection of participating shops and dairy producers.

All the elements of a food system—which consists of everything and everyone involved in bringing food from farm to fork—are connected. Policies that affect one part of the food system can...

After two years of fighting COVID-19, the world economy has been left in a fragile state. Today, 60 per cent of workers have lower real incomes...

Recent Macroeconomic Developments and Outlook The economy had begun to recover from the COVID shock, but it is now faced with renewed uncertainty. Following economic contraction in 2020, growth...

Given serious rising food insecurity, together the IFIs will pursue actions to step up, surge, and scale their work across six priority goals...

We investigate the role of productive safety net program (PSNP) and its modes of benefit transfer in vulnerability to nutritional outcomes in rural households of Ethiopia. We model...

Background Cash transfer (CT) programmes are an increasingly common approach to alleviate poverty and inequality and improving child health and nutrition, as well as supporting other goals...

In August of 2017, Rohingya refugees fled from Myanmar to escape violence and arrived in the district of Cox’s Bazar of Bangladesh. Within a period of 4 months, an influx of about 724,000...

This paper begins by discussing the socio-economic and resource pressures facing the international community prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 (Chapter 2) before examining the direct...

Most countries target some social protection programs to selected people; reviewing the current knowledge on this subject can inform the formulation of policy. Synopsis of 10 Key...