poverty

The impact of marriage timing on women’s agency: Evidence from rural Bangladesh

The age at which women marry affects their standing in the husband’s family, influencing their empowerment in the spousal household in domestic and productive spheres. Source: IFPRI South Asia Office

Discussion paper 02232: Gender, deliberation, and natural resource governance: Experimental evidence from Malawi

Initiatives to combat climate change often strive to include women’s voices, but there is limited evidence on how this feature influences program design or its benefits for women. We examine the causal effect of women’s representation in climate-relate... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

US sanctions could threaten SDG financing: Economists

If the US imposes sanctions on Bangladesh centring the upcoming elections, it could seriously impact overall food security in the country, affecting financing for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), economists and experts have warned. Besides, slow g... Source: IFPRI Bangladesh Country Office

27.51 lakh Bangladeshis go below poverty line for food price hike, economic slowdown: IFPRI researcher

The poverty situation in Bangladesh was higher than expected in 2020-21 as the COVID constrained economic activity and reduced incomes. The situation worsened further amid spirals in global food prices in 2022. And the global economic slowdown could pu... Source: IFPRI Bangladesh Country Office

33rd Annual Martin J. Forman Memorial Lecture: Tackling Obesity and Noncommunicable Diseases in Mexico

Globally, the prevalence of overweight and obesity has nearly tripled since 1975—among adults over the age of 18, more than 1.25 billion are overweight and 650 million are obese. Overweight and obesity affects more than 340 million children and adolesc... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program