BACKGROUND Depression and anxiety disorders are together responsible for 8% of years
lived with disability globally. Contrary to widely held preconceptions, these are not diseases …

Countries across Africa continue to face major challenges in education. In this review, we
examine 145 recent empirical studies (from 2014 onward) on how to increase access to and …

Family income is a positive predictor of children's health, human capital, and later-life
earnings, but determining the extent to which these associations reflect causal effects is …

Cash transfer programs are rapidly becoming a key component of the social safety net of
many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. The primary aim of these programs is to help …

The first decades of the twenty-first century have offered a remarkable shift in how policies
are made as well as who designs them. Until this period, local, regional, and national policy …

There is increasing interest in the ability of cash transfers to facilitate safe transitions to
adulthood in low‐income settings; however, evidence from scaled‐up government …

Abstract In rural West Africa, the rate of out-of-school children is high and delayed entry to
primary school is common, particularly for girls. Using the randomized roll-out of a large …

With an increasing shift towards cash transfers and the proposition of Universal Basic
Income (UBI) as a policy alternative to replace the existing schemes, there has been a rising …

The Commission on Social Determinants of Health, sponsored by the World Health
Organization, has identified measuring health inequities and evaluating interventions to …

Background Children who have lost a parent to HIV/AIDS, known as AIDS orphans, face
multiple stressors affecting their health and development. Family economic empowerment …