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Emanuela Galasso

Development Research Group, World Bank
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[HTML][HTML] Effects of nutritional supplementation and home visiting on growth and development in young children in Madagascar: a cluster-randomised controlled trial

E Galasso, AM Weber, CP Stewart… - The Lancet Global …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Background Evidence from efficacy trials suggests that lipid-based nutrient supplementation
(LNS) and home visits can be effective approaches to preventing chronic malnutrition and …

Decentralized targeting of an antipoverty program

E Galasso, M Ravallion - Journal of Public economics, 2005 - Elsevier
Developing country governments often delegate authority over the targeting of antipoverty
programs to community organizations, while retaining control over how much goes to each …

Social protection in a crisis: Argentina's Plan Jefes y Jefas

E Galasso, M Ravallion - The World Bank Economic Review, 2004 - academic.oup.com
The article assesses the impact of Argentina’s main social policy response to the severe
economic crisis of 2002. The program was intended to provide direct income support for families …

Assisting the transition from workfare to work: A randomized experiment

E Galasso, M Ravallion, A Salvia - Ilr Review, 2004 - journals.sagepub.com
… *Emanuela Galasso and Martin Ravallion are economist and research manager,
respectively, with the Development Research Group of the World Bank, and Agustin Salvia is a …

Tackling social exclusion: evidence from Chile

P Carneiro, E Galasso, R Ginja - The Economic Journal, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We study a Chilean programme that combines home visits to households in extreme poverty
with guaranteed access to social services. Its goal was to connect marginalised families to …

Socioeconomic gradients and child development in a very low income population: evidence from Madagascar

LCH Fernald, A Weber, E Galasso… - Developmental …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Our objectives were to document and examine socioeconomic gradients across a comprehensive
set of child development measures in a population living in extreme poverty, and to …

[PDF][PDF] With their effort and one opportunity: Alleviating extreme poverty in Chile

E Galasso - Unpublished manuscript, World Bank, Washington …, 2006 - researchgate.net
This paper evaluates the effect of an anti-poverty program, Chile Solidario, during its first two
years of operation. We exploit the exogenous geographic variation in the assignment of the …

Direct and indirect effects of Malawi's public works program on food security

K Beegle, E Galasso, J Goldberg - Journal of Development Economics, 2017 - Elsevier
Labor-intensive public works programs are important social protection tools in low-income
settings, intended to supplement the income of poor households and improve public …

[PDF][PDF] The economic costs of stunting and how to reduce them

E Galasso, A Wagstaff… - … Note World Bank …, 2016 - documents1.worldbank.org
1. In 2014, according to UNICEF, WHO and the World Bank, 171 million children under the
age of five were stunted. Loosely-speaking this means they were excessively short for their …

[HTML][HTML] Characteristics that modify the effect of small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplementation on child growth: an individual participant data meta-analysis of …

…, SJL Dulience, LCH Fernald, E Galasso… - The American journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Meta-analyses show that small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements (SQ-LNSs)
reduce child stunting and wasting. Identification of subgroups who benefit most from …