This paper addresses a humanitarian logistics problem connected with the Syrian refugee crisis. The ongoing conflict in Syria has caused displacement of millions people. Cash-based interventions play an important role aiding people post-crisis period to enhance their well-being medium and longer term. presents study on how design network administrative facilities support roll-out cash-based int...

This paper seeks to investigate whether improvement in sex ratios translate into better health and nutritional outcomes for the girl child through an in depth study of these indictors in the region of Punjab. In recent years, both the child and overall sex ratios have shown improvement in the state. We analyze whether this improvement has narrowed gender discrimination against the girl child in...

Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs have become widespread in developing and underdeveloped countries as a way to alleviate current poverty and provide investments in human capital that could lead families to better life conditions in the long-term. The first goal is accomplished when poor families receive money from governments on a monthly basis, as a complementary income source. The sec...

Recent evidence suggests that conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs for schooling are effective in raising school enrollment and attendance. However, there is also reason to believe that such programs can affect other outcomes, such as the sexual behavior of their young beneficiaries. Zomba Cash Transfer Program is a randomized ongoing CCT intervention targeting young women in Malawi that pr...

Following initiation of Progresa in Mexico in 1997, there has been an extraordinary proliferation of conditional cash transfers (CCT) programs oriented at social protection across the world. At the Third International Conference on CCT, the World Bank identified programs in progress in 20 countries, with a total annual budget of US$8.25 billion (World Bank, 2006). Many other countries are showi...