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Les aides sociales peuvent stimuler la participation citoyenne. À Khayelitsha, au Cap, des femmes bénévoles s’organisent chaque semaine pour balayer les rues et améliorer leur cadre de vie. Photo : Gideon Mendel/Corbis via Getty Images

Comment les programmes de lutte contre la pauvreté renforcent la confiance entre citoyens et Etat

Katrina Kosec, Johns Hopkins University and Cecilia Hyunjung Mo, University of California, Berkeley

Les transferts sociaux ne fonctionnent pas en vase clos. Ils peuvent renforcer la confiance ou l’éroder, consolider la cohésion ou alimenter le ressentiment.
Social grants can lead to greater community involvement. Women volunteers in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, meet weekly to sweep and clear rubbish off their streets. Photo by Gideon Mendel/Corbis via Getty Images

Anti‑poverty programmes can change how people see the state and each other

Katrina Kosec, Johns Hopkins University and Cecilia Hyunjung Mo, University of California, Berkeley

Social transfers don’t operate in a vacuum. They can strengthen trust or erode it, build cohesion or fuel resentment.
Malawi’s Zomba forest is losing trees because of the need for fuelwood. Wilpunt/Getty Images

Forest loss in Malawi: how having women at the table affected debates and decisions about solutions – research

Katrina Kosec, Johns Hopkins University; Amanda Clayton, University of California, Berkeley; Amanda Lea Robinson, The Ohio State University, and Boniface Dulani, University of Cape Town

In rural Malawi, women influence discussions on how to combat climate change in communities that depend on forests for survival.
Women who work outside the home in Papua New Guinea often continue shouldering the same domestic and child care responsibilities as before. Rachel Gilbert and Gracie Rosenbach, IFPRI

Feeling relatively poor increases support for women in the workplace – but men still don’t want them making household decisions

Katrina Kosec, Johns Hopkins University and Cecilia Hyunjung Mo, University of California, Berkeley

A new study explores how feelings of relative poverty can negatively affect gender dynamics among households.
A woman casts her ballot at a polling station during a runoff presidential election in Bamako, Mali on Aug. 12, 2018. Reuters/Luc Gnago

Competitive elections are good for democracy – just not every democracy

Jessica Gottlieb, Texas A&M University and Katrina Kosec, Johns Hopkins University

Elections are supposed to hold politicians accountable: Officials who fear losing their seat will work harder for voters. But in some countries, political competition actually makes government worse.

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