Wednesday, May 12, 2021
To assess the impact of COVID-19 on households, the World Bank and Central Bureau of Statistics are jointly collecting data through a first-of-its-kind mobile phone survey. The first round of survey results revealed growing hardship for families who have...
Tuesday, May 5, 2020
When Anushree Shridhar heard that vegetables and fruits were rotting in fields near Bengaluru because of India’s COVID-19 lockdown, she knew she had to do something to connect farmers and hungry families. Anushree, a senior accounting assistant with the...
Thursday, September 28, 2017
With 1.5 billion people covered globally, food and voucher programs provide an important lifeline for the poor and vulnerable. Understanding how those programs work, and how they connect to wider social protection systems is key to ensuring food security...
Monday, April 10, 2017
By improving its ability to identify the poor, the government of the Dominican Republic documented 255,265 extremely poor individuals, approximately 45 percent of whom were women. This identification facilitated access to social assistance programs for...
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America, Dominican Republic
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