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Agricultural producer support estimates for developing countries: Measurement issues and evidence from India, Indonesia, China, and Vietnam

Orden, David; Cheng, Fuzhi; Nguyen, Hoa; Grote, Ulrike; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007

intervention in agricultural markets, each of the four countries in the study has undergone a substantial reform process." from …

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Petroleum subsidies in Yemen: Leveraging reform for development

Breisinger, Clemens; Engelke, Wilfried; Ecker, Olivier - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011

Petroleum subsidy reform is increasingly seen as an opportunity for consolidating public finances and fostering … level of energy subsidies, started to reduce subsidies in 2010 and is discussing further options for reform. The results of … this paper support a comprehensive petroleum subsidy reform in Yemen. Economic growth is projected to accelerate between 0 …

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Impacts of global change on the Nile basin: Options for hydropolitical reform in Egypt and Ethiopia

Martens, Anja Kristina - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011

demands. Avenues for hydropolitical reform, including the Nile Basin Initiative, and the role of China and other donors or …

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Institutional reform in the Burkinabè cotton sector and its impacts on incomes and food security: 1996-2006

Kaminski, Jonathan; Headey, Derek; Bernard, Tanguy - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

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Estimating the impact of agricultural technology on poverty reduction in rural Nigeria:

Omilola, Babatunde - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

"It has often been argued that new agricultural technologies lead to poverty reduction. This paper argues that any changes in poverty situation attributed to those who adopt new agricultural technology (treatment group) without a counterfactual comparison of carefully selected nonadopters...

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Assessing the impact of policy research and capacity building by IFPRI in Malawi:

Ryan, James G. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1999

This study examines the contributions of IFPRI over the last 10 years to policy development, training, and capacity-strengthening activities with Malawi, focused particularly on addressing the chronic food insecurity and malnutrition that has prevailed for the last 60 years.The paper is divided...

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Policy for plenty: measuring the benefits of policy-oriented social science research

Norton, George W.; Alwang, Jeffrey - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1998

This paper suggests practical methods for assessing policy research programs, both ex post and ex ante. Measuring the benefits of policy research is difficult: the path of causation between research and policy change is nearly always uncertain; multiple factors influence any particular policy...

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Assessing the impact of rice policy changes in Viet Nam and the contribution of policy research:

Ryan, James G. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1999

The marketing and policy research on rice of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is described, and the conclusions and recommendations are discussed in the context of the decisionmaking processes in Viet Nam. The role of IFPRI's publication and communications in informing...

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Returns to policy-related social science research in agriculture:

Gardner, Bruce L. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1999

Policy research is valuable as a source of information for decisionmakers. The value of research is the expected social gain from policy decisions influenced by the information generated. The gain from a decision depends on choosing the best policy given the state of the world, which is...

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Policy-Oriented Research Impact Assessment (PORIA) case study on the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Mexican PROGRESA anti-poverty and human resource i...

Behrman, Jere R. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007

"The objective of this study is to attempt to characterize the influence and impact of IFPRI in relation to the Mexican PROGRESA/Oportunidades anti-poverty and human resource program with its conditional cash transfers (CCT)—conditional on specific investments in education, health, and...

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