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Combining cash + complementary programming leads to sustainable poverty ⬇️ four years post-program in 🇧🇩 However - modality + context matters! IFPRI IFPRI-Bangladesh John Hoddinott Salauddin Tauseef in AEA Journals aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Risk of famine remains high in Gaza ifpri.org/blog/risk-of-f…

Sudan’s food crisis deepens as conflict intensifies ifpri.org/blog/sudans-fo…

Our forthcoming paper in AEJ:Applied. We find combining cash + complementary programming (nutrition BCC) lead to sustainable poverty reduction four years post-program in rural Bangladesh. However, modality and context matters for sustained impacts.

Excited to be traveling to Manila next week to present my paper, "Poverty and Vulnerability in rural Bangladesh" at the ADBI conference on Inclusive Economic Growth in Asia and the Pacific.

Kunal Mangal Brian Knight Ana Maria Tribin @mercedes_pdl Salauddin Tauseef @ifpri + Sufian show in Bangladesh that delayed age at marriage (driven by delayed menarche) significantly ⬆️ women's empowerment, with the main channel through better education + labor market outcomes doi.org/10.1093/wber/l…

Thanks to VoxDev for featuring our recently published research on the sustainability of cash and food transfers to reducing poverty.

How programme design and local context shape the lasting effects of cash and food transfers Last week on VoxDev, new article by Akhter Ahmed IFPRI, Melissa Hidrobo IFPRI, John Hoddinott Cornell University, Bastien Kolt World Health Organization (WHO), Shalini Roy IFPRI & Salauddin Tauseef IFPRI: voxdev.org/topic/health/h…

Might not feel this way on twitter - but back here on earth, DOGE did not have a great day yesterday on the USAID front. Elon's attempt to speedrun the destruction of USAID is starting to hit real legal and political bumps. The pushback is starting - and must be sustained. 🧵

Economics research notoriously takes years to finish. I’m working on an RCT that I started in 2012! Peer review rounds take years. I’m on year 6 for my 2012 RCT. During this I learned a new lesson on the cost of long term projects… Standards for publication keep rising.

We wanted to verify the evidence behind >$1 billion in grants we've made to our top charities — so we asked I4R to see if they could get the data to replicate the underlying RCTs. It didn't go great... 🧵

Excited to be traveling to Helsinki to present our paper at the UNU-WIDER Development Conference on “Safeguarding tomorrow”. #WIDERDevConf2025 #socialprotection IFPRI

And why did you cluster your standard errors that way?

How does #CashPLUS work? Find out more about our research on the benefits of linking #CashTransfers to interventions & services transfer.cpc.unc.edu/cash-plus-prog…

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