International development

This study assesses whether the microfinance institution SEWA Bank, India, is meeting its objective of raising its members' income.

In this report, we provide estimates of how the programme has influenced nutrition and health-related indicators for children in the short term, roughly one year after its implementation.

Colombia's civil conflict over the last 40 years has displaced many families and individuals from their villages of origin.

In this paper we evaluate the effect of a large welfare program in rural Mexico.

In this report, we assess the short-term impact of the Colombian welfare programme Familias en Acción on consumption and its components.

In this report we estimate the impact on school enrolment of a large welfare programme in Colombia, Familias en Acción.

In this Briefing Note, we will focus on the programme Familias en Acción, the conditional cash-transfer programme implemented by the Colombian government from 2001/02.

We study the determinants of child anthropometrics on a sample of poor Colombian children living in small municipalities.

In this paper we evaluate the effect of a large nutrition programme in rural Colombia on children nutritional status, school achievement and female labour supply.

A nonparametricmodel of the wealth effect on self-employment is estimated using micro data on theoccupational choices of return migrants in Tunisia.

We investigate the effects of the drastic tariff reductions of the 1980s and 1990s in Colombia on the wage distribution.

This paper models the short and medium-run impact of aid on migration, con-sidering alternatively the effect of unconditional and conditional cash transfers to financially constrained households.

In this paper we evaluate the effect of a large welfare program in rural Mexico.

In this paper we study the determinants of child anthropometrics on a sample of poor Colombianchildren living in small municipalities.

We study the effects of risk and uncertainty on education and childlabour in developing countries.

This report describes the survey that was carried out in 122 communities in rural Colombia bythe consortium formed by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Econometria and SEI as the baselinefor the impact evaluation of Familias en Acción, a programme to foster the accumulation ofhuman capital in rural Colombia, run by the Colombian government.

This is the first wave evaluation report of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer programme.

This is the baseline evaluation report of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer programme.