Reports
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Special thematic reports and articles
Common themes emerged from the perspectives of researchers supported under the PAGE I initiative (2012-2016), following the evaluation of their countries’ priority issues.
Findings from their studies, conducted throughout the Global South, are compared and summarized in the following articles:
- Female entrepreneurship hindered more by social and cultural constraints
than access to finance - Why youth become entrepreneurs
- Introducing a minimum wage can improve well-being
- How migration and remittances affect welfare and employment at home
- Managing the mining industry to help reduce poverty
- How cash transfers support vulnerable populations
- How informal sector workers protect themselves without access to social assistance
UNICEF-commissioned studies
- Fiscal Space and Public Spending on Children in Burkina Faso (2012) - aussi disponible en français
- Analyse de situation: Profil de l'équité et de la pauvreté des enfants et des femmes au Burkina Faso en 2010 - in French only
- PEP-UNICEF Collaborations: Producing Evidence to Help Improve Child Well-being in Developing Countries - While building and promoting local expertise on child-related issues
Other special thematic reports
- Assessing the Impacts of the Global Financial Crisis and Appropriate Policy Responses in Asia: Case Studies of Bangladesh, Pakistan and the Philippines
- Global Financial Crisis: Providing a Local Perspective on the Poverty Impacts in Developing Countries
- Investing in Public Infrastructure: An Effective Inclusive Growth Strategy? Evidence from China, Pakistan and the Philippines
- PEP-MPIA Network: the Growing Family of PEP Standard CGE Models: Cutting-Edge Developments, Open-Source Dissemination, Timely Modeling Applications