Social Safety Nets Relieve Poverty—and Hunger. Madagascar Needs More of Them

Cash transfers keep people fed

The World Bank has been intervening in 37 drought-affected communes through the Fiavota program, which combines cash transfers, measures to promote human capital, nutrition services, and stimulus funds, since 2016. About 430,000 people have benefited from it. Fiavota, which means “recovery” in the local…