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Refugees, food security, and resilience in host communities: Transitioning from humanitarian assistance to development in protracted refugee situations :

Mabiso, Athur; Maystadt, Jean-François; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

An emerging literature shows how the mass arrival of refugees induces both short- and long-term consequences to hosting … refugees. It provides a conceptual framework for discussing these various channels through which refugee inflows influence food … security in the hosting countries. Second, the literature review finds that the impact of large-scale influxes of refugees on …

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Poverty reduction in a refugee-hosting economy: A natural experiment

Maystadt, Jean-Francois - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011

The role of migration in reducing poverty in developing countries has been investigated mainly from the perspective of migrants and their relatives. This paper exploits the time and spatial variations in the way households in the region of Kagera (Tanzania) traced between 1991 and 2004 have been...

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The development push of refugees: Evidence from Tanzania:

Maystadt, Jean-François; Duranton, Gilles - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

Every year, thousands of people flee their country of origin to seek protection mainly in neighboring countries. Understanding better the consequences of temporary population shocks on hosting economies should help to guide policies to enhance resilience in emergency situations. This study...

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Resilience for food and nutrition security

Fan, Shenggen (contributor); Pandya-Lorch, Rajul (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

In recent years, many people and parts of the world have been hit by major shocks ranging from conflicts, erratic weather patterns, earthquakes, droughts, and floods to food price spikes. At the same time, poor people and communities remain vulnerable to shocks that may be smaller in...

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Infrastructure and cluster development: A case study of handloom weavers in Ethiopia

Ayele, Gezahegn; Chamberlin, Jordan; Moorman, Lisa; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

Rural non-farm development plays a key role in generating employment in many developing countries. Clustering is an …

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Nonmarket networks among migrants

Yamauchi, Futoshi; Tanabe, Sakiko - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2003

/year-specific correlated shocks, show that (1) the relative size of the migrant population in the market decreases employment probabilities of … new migrants (negative substitution effect), (2) the employment probability of previous migrants increases those of new … migrants (positive externalities), and (3) when the employment probability of previous migrants approaches to unity, the size …

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Some urban facts of life

Ruel, Marie T.; Haddad, Lawrence James; Garrett, James L. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1999

This review of recent literature explores the challenges to urban food and nutrition security in the rapidly urbanizing developing world. The premise of the manuscript is that the causes of malnutrition and food insecurity in urban and rural areas are different due primarily to a number of...

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Gender differences in agricultural productivity

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

This paper reviews the econometric evidence on gender differences in agricultural productivity. It provides a methodological overview and a critique of (1) production function-based estimates of technical and labor productivity differences by gender, (2) individual (gender-disaggregated) labor...

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Human capital, productivity, and labor allocation in rural Pakistan

Fafchamps, Marcel; Quisumbing, Agnes R. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1998

This paper investigates whether human capital affects the productivity and labor allocation of rural households in four districts of Pakistan. The investigation shows that households with better-educated males earn higher off-farm income and divert labor resources away from farm activities...

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Working women in an urban setting

Levin, Carol E.; Maxwell, Daniel G.; Armar-Klemesu, Margaret - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1999

Data collected from a 1997 household survey carried out in Accra, Ghana, are used to look at the crucial role that women play as income earners and in securing access to food in urban areas. The high number of female-headed households and the large percent of working women in the sample provide...

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