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Social protection and cash transfers to strengthen familes affected by HIV and AIDS:

Adato, Michelle; Bassett, Lucy - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

vulnerable to poverty, food insecurity, and threats to their children’s nutrition, health, and education, with irreversible …

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Land and schooling: Transferring wealth across generations

Quisumbing, Agnes R. (contributor); … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

among its individual members. They look at how these differences in land holdings and education affect what sons and …

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Public expenditures, growth, and poverty: Lessons from developing countries

Fan, Shenggen (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty assesses the efficacy of poverty reduction programs in Latin America, Africa, and Asia by synthesizing studies conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute over the past ten years. Overall, the studies find that investments in...

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Agriculture, food safety, and foodborne diseases: understanding the links between agriculture and health

Todd, Ewen C. D.; Narrod, Clare - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

"To improve the ability of farmers in developing countries to reduce the burden of foodborne illness, government agencies need to take the following steps: (1) Implement a farm-to-table approach to agricultural health by focusing efforts on the prevention of potential food safety and...

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Whose education matters in the determination of household income

Jolliffe, Dean - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1997

This paper aims to answer how best to model education attainment, which is an individual-level variable, in household …-level income functions. The accepted practice in the literature is to use the education level of the household head. This paper … compares the head-of-household model to three competing models and concludes that the maximum or average level of education in …

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The extended family and intrahousehold allocation

Quisumbing, Agnes R. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1995

, grandparents significantly affect gender-specific investments in children's education only in resource-constrained families. Family … grandfathers, may also have an advantage. The secular expansion of education has contributed much to the increased educational … attainment of women. Better educated fathers favor daughters in terms of education, while mothers with more land favor sons …

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Child labor and schooling responses to production and health shocks in northern Mali:

Dillon, Andrew - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008

"This paper investigates children's time allocation to schooling, home production, and market production using a unique data set collected from northern Mali. Production shocks from harvest period pest infestations induce households to withdraw children from school and increase the probability...

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The contribution of IFPRI research and the impact of the Food for Education Program in Bangladesh on schooling outcomes and earnings

Ryan, James G.; Meng, Xin - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2004

, evolution, and impact of the food for education (FFE) program in Bangladesh. It reviews the outputs from the IFPRI program and …

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Population density, migration, and the returns to human capital and land: Highlights from Indonesia

Liu, Yanyan; Yamauchi, Futoshi - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013

Rapid population growth in many developing countries has raised concerns regarding food security and household welfare. To understand the consequences of population growth on in the general equilibrium setting, we examine the dynamics of population density and its impacts on household outcomes...

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Social protection and cash transfers to strengthen familes affected by HIV and AIDS

Adato, Michelle; Bassett, Lucy - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012

vulnerable to poverty, food insecurity, and threats to their children’s nutrition, health, and education, with irreversible …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010595741