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Violence against women increases with financial stress. When a household has no income, tensions rise and options shrink. Steady, monthly income gives women more autonomy, more safety, and more choices.
A randomized experiment found that cash, voucher, and food transfers targeted to women reduced physical and sexual violence by 25-35%, primarily by alleviating household financial stress.
IFPRI / Johns Hopkins University, 2016
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A randomized experiment in rural South Africa found that conditional cash transfers to adolescent girls reduced the risk of physical intimate partner violence by 34%.
Drexel University / University of the Witwatersrand, 2024
An experimental study of Mali's cash transfer program found that physical violence decreased by 7 percentage points and controlling behaviors by 16 percentage points in polygamous households.
IFPRI / University of North Carolina, 2019
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