Low and middle income countries

This EBRD impact brief reports on a randomised field experiment in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

We use an RCT to analyze the impacts of microcredit.

This paper analyses the impact of informality on growth and wages in developing countries.

We use an RCT to analyze the impact of microcredit on poverty reduction, child and teenage labour supply, and education in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This working paper uses a randomised controlled trial (RCT) to analyse the impact of microcredit on poverty reduction in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This paper tests the hypothesis that participation in conditional cash transfers would be associated with increasing body mass index.

The World Bank commissioned the IFS to develop a tax simulator for El Salvador, with an aim of increasing capacity for the distributional and revenue analysis of tax reforms in this country. This is the final paper of this project.

Microfinance institutions across the world are moving from group lending to individual lending. This EBRD Impact Brief presents some such evidence from a recent randomised field experiment in Mongolia.

Incorrect knowledge of the health production function may lead to inefficient household choices, and thereby to the production of suboptimal levels of health. This paper studies the effects of a randomised intervention in rural Malawi which, over a six-month period, provided mothers of young infants with information on child nutrition without supplying any monetary or in-kind resources.

Using data from an experiment conducted in 70 Colombian communities, we investigate who pools risk with whom when trust is crucial for enforcing risk pooling arrangements.

This paper analyses food Engel curves amongst the poor population targeted by a conditional cash transfer programme in Colombia.

This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the father from the household affects children's school enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia.

This paper examines geographic mobility and housing downsizing at older ages in Britain and the USA.

This study evaluates an intervention in the dairy subsector by an Indian livelihood promotion institution and conducts a detailed analysis of the main cost and benet factors of the activity.