ArticleDevelopment policy review : the journal of the Overseas Development Institute2017
Cash Transfers and Child Nutrition: Pathways and Impacts.
Article in Development policy review : the journal of the Overseas Development Institute, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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43 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- More evidence on cash transfers and child nutritional outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ global health · 2022Pooled it
- Impact of conditional and unconditional cash transfers on health outcomes and use of health services in humanitarian settings: a mixed-methods systematic review.BMJ global health · 2022Pooled it
- Systematic Review on the Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on Child Health Service Utilisation and Child Health in Sub-Saharan Africa.Frontiers in public health · 2021Pooled it
- Cash transfers and child nutritional outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ global health · 2020Pooled it
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- The impact of cash transfers on social determinants of health and health inequalities in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review.Health policy and planning · 2018Pooled it
- Effect of a home-based health, nutrition and responsive stimulation intervention and conditional cash transfers on child development and growth: a cluster-randomised controlled trial in Tanzania.BMJ global health · 2021Trial
- Evaluation of an unconditional cash transfer program targeting children's first-1,000-days linear growth in rural Togo: A cluster-randomized controlled trial.PLoS medicine · 2020Trial
- 'There is no point giving cash to women who don't spend it the way they are told to spend it' - Exploring women's agency over cash in a combined participatory women's groups and cash transfer programme to improve low birthweight in rural Nepal.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2019Trial
- Findings from a cluster randomised trial of unconditional cash transfers in Niger.Maternal & child nutrition · 2018Trial
- Cash transfers targeting adolescent wellbeing: a scoping review of the literature in low- and middle-income countries.Global health action · 2026Article
- Cohort Profile: The Ecuadorian National Birth and Infant Nutrition cohort.International journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- India's national maternity benefit cash transfer program and child anthropometry.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- The role of community co-designed interventions for malaria prevention and control in conflict-affected communities in Cameroon's Southwest and littoral regions.Malaria journal · 2026Article
- Next-generation microbiome therapeutics: psychobiotics and fecal microbiota transplants for mental health treatment.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026Review
- Trends in the double burden of malnutrition among Indonesian adults, 2007 to 2023.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Factors associated with inequalities in malnutrition among children in Ghana using the 2022 GDHS and WHO HEAT framework.BMC public health · 2025Observational
- Brazil's Bolsa Família conditional cash transfer and child malnutrition: a nationwide birth cohort study.BMJ global health · 2025Article
- Can social protection contribute to social connectedness in contexts of forced displacement and crisis? Lessons from Jordan's labelled cash transfer for education.World development · 2025Article
- Impact of conditional cash transfer programs on health outcomes in Argentina: a retrospective, observational analysis based on MICS 2019/2020.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2025Article
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Abstract
Childhood malnutrition remains a significant global problem, with an estimated 162 million children under the age of five suffering from stunted growth. This article examines the extent to which cash transfer programmes can improve child nutrition. It adopts a framework that captures and explains the pathways and determinants of child nutrition. The framework is then used to organize and discuss relevant evidence from the impact evaluation literature, focusing on impact pathways and new and emerging findings from sub-Saharan Africa to identify critical elements that determine child nutrition outcomes as well as knowledge gaps requiring further research, such as children's dietary diversity, caregiver behaviours and stress.
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