Ashu Handa

Ashu Handa will present as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2024-2025 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.

Topic: The long-term impacts of the Malawi Social Cash Transfer Program on households and adolescents

Dr. Handa is an economist working on poverty, health and human development in sub-Saharan Africa. He is co-PI of The Transfer Project, a regional initiative with UNICEF and FAO to understand the broad effects of government sponsored cash transfer programs in sub-Saharan Africa. See the project website for further information on the Transfer Project. He is currently studying the long-term effects of cash transfers in Zambia and Malawi.