BRAC’s Targeting the Ultra Poor programme transfers assets, mainly livestock, to women of ultra-poor households and provides them with training for their maintenance and upbringing. But how much does this asset transfer help the women and how does this change the intra-household power dynamics?

In this episode, we turn to Shalini Roy, a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), for an answer to this question.

Here is a link to the academic paper.