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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752677
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Empowering women to achieve food security:
Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001
, Hilary Sims Feldstein, and Guadalupe Duron Brief 6. Education / Elizabeth M. King and Harold Alderman Brief 7. Labor Markets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996500
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Increasing the effective participation of women in food and nutrition security in Africa
Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2004
more active measures in key areas such as control over land, water, and other assets, and investment in education, health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996888
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996967
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Increasing the effective participation of women in food and nutrition security in Africa
Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2004
more active measures in key areas such as control over land, water, and other assets, and investment in education, health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997066
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997367
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Land inheritance and schooling in matrilineal societies: evidence from Sumatra
Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Otsuka, Keijiro - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001
This paper explores statistically the implications of the shift from communal to individualized tenure on the distribution of land and schooling between sons and daughters in matrilineal societies, based on a Sumatra case study. The inheritance system is evolving from a strictly matrilineal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005105964
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An analysis of institutions and policy processes for selected antipoverty interventions in Bangladesh:
Ahmed, Akhter U.; Khondkar, Mubina - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
aspects of new agricultural technology interventions and the policy processes of food- and cash-based education incentive …. The paper then examines the motivation and policy processes of the Food for Education program and its subsequent … replacement, the cash-based Primary Education Stipend program. The study reviews similarities and differences among selected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008862344