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Do health investments improve agricultural productivity?

McNamara, Paul E.; Ulimwengu, John M.; Leonard, Kenneth L. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010

Determining the causality between health measures and both income and labor productivity remains an ongoing challenge … the link between health investments and agricultural productivity. The evidence from some micro-level studies suggests … that inexpensive health interventions can have a very large impact on labor productivity. The macro-level evidence at the …

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Inputs, productivity, and agricultural growth in Africa South of the Sahara:

Nin-Pratt, Alejandro - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015

productivity growth in SSA continues to lag behind every other region of the world, growing at rates that are roughly half of the … average rate of developing countries. Previous studies concluded that SSA should increase investment in agricultural research … support services for raising agricultural productivity. This study introduces a new dimension to the puzzle of agricultural …

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The political economy of food subsidy reform in Egypt

Gutner, Tammi - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1999

Egypt has a large food subsidy program that has created a relatively effective social safety net, but it has also drained budgetary resources and proved to be poorly targeted toward the poor. Discussions about reforming the system to improve its effectiveness have run into extreme political...

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How can safety nets do more with less?

Haddad, Lawrence James; Zeller, Manfred - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1996

This paper reviews design features by which safety nets might do more with less. It reviews the current evidence on their success in practice–including three brief reviews of southern Africa experience–and suggests a role for future policy research in furthering the goal of designing safety...

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Child development

Engle, Patrice L.; Castle, Sarah; Menon, Purnima - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1996

Many of the challenges facing children now are a function of the changing times, including increases in urbanization, political violence, changing family forms, and, in some a cases, decreased supplies of adequate food. This paper reviews the evolving nature of these risks. In addition, the...

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Can US welfare programs cure persistent poverty?:

Ulimwengu, John M. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008

"A simple dynamic panel model is used to capture persistence in poverty. This simple model allows a more accurate derivation of the permanent level of the measure of well-being from which persistent poverty is defined. Using a longitudinal dataset from the United States of America, the results...

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Trade liberalization and regional integration: the search for large numbers

Robinson, Sherman; Thierfelder, Karen - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1999

, and dynamic effects such as links between trade liberalization, total factor productivity growth, and capital stock …

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Evolving public expenditure in Chinese agriculture: Definition, pattern, composition, and mechanism:

Yu, Bingxin; Chen, Kevin Z.; Zhang, Yumei; Zhang, Haisen - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

The Chinese economy has recently experienced a rapid and fundamental transformation, and the public expenditure on agriculture has also changed to reflect shifts in policy priorities. This paper reviewed public agricultural expenditure in a comprehensive way using detailed expenditure data at...

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Measuring the effect of transaction costs for investment in irrigation pumps: Application of unobserved stochastic threshold model to the case of Nigeria

Takeshima, Hiroyuki; Adeoti, Adetola I.; Salau, Sheu - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010

increase in farmersï¿½ investment in irrigation is essential. While Nigerian farmersï¿½ low level of investment in irrigation … an investment. Although reducing transaction costs is important because the reduction provides farmers with a more … return from irrigation investment. …

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Impacts of considering climate variability on investment decisions in Ethiopia:

Block, Paul J.; Strzepek, Kenneth; Rosegrant, Mark; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008

investment strategies for Ethiopia, as well as on the country's gross domestic product growth rates and poverty rates." from text …

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