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Mechanization outsourcing clusters and division of labor in Chinese agriculture:
Zhang, Xiaobo; Yang, Jin; Reardon, Thomas Anthony - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015
Most of the poor in the developing countries are smallholder farmers. Improving their productivity is essential for reducing poverty. Despite small landholdings, a high degree of land fragmentation, and rising labor costs, agricultural production in China has steadily increased. If one treats...
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Agricultural research, livelihoods, and poverty: Studies of economic and social impacts in six countries
Adato, Michelle (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Those who study global poverty and ways to reduce it face a perennial set of questions: Do advances in knowledge, research, and technology make a real difference in the lives of poor people? What effect does research have on the poor? Who benefits? The contributors to Agricultural Research,...
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Promoting sustainable development in less-favored areas:
Pender, John L.; Hazell, P. B. R. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2000
/ Sushil Pandey Brief 5. Returns to public investment: Evidence from India and China / Shenggen Fan and Peter Hazell Brief 6 …
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Fomentar el desarrollo sustentable en las zonas poco favorecidas:
Pender, John L.; Hazell, P. B. R. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2000
Andes; Tecnologias para las tierras altas del sudeste de Asia; Utilidades de la inversion publica: datos de la India y China …
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The quiet revolution in staple food value chains: Enter the dragon, the elephant, and the tiger
Reardon, Thomas (contributor); Chen, Kevin Z. (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
requires urgent actions to improve the productivity and climate resilience of agriculture and to upgrade the food value chains …
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Land and schooling: Transferring wealth across generations
Quisumbing, Agnes R. (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
The authors of this book identify the factors affecting land inheritance and schooling across generations in the Philippines, Indonesia, and Ghana-countries with very different social and cultural traditions. Based on household surveys at each site, the authors examine how these factors affect...
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Short- and long-term effects of the 1998 Bangladesh flood on rural wages
Mueller, Valerie; Quisumbing, Agnes - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
evaluate how the 1998 “flood of the century” affected wages in Bangladesh. We find long-term declines in wages where …
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The consequences of early childhood growth failure over the life course:
Hoddinott, John; Maluccio, John; Behrman, Jere R.; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
skill in adulthood, have better outcomes in the marriage market, earn higher wages and are more likely to be employed in …
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Urban wage behavior and food price inflation: the case of Ethiopia [Working Paper]:
Headey, Derek D.; Bachewe, Fantu Nisrane; Worku, Ibrahim; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
series of casual wages from 119 locations in both Ethiopian cities and rural towns. We use this data for two types of … changes in nominal wages respond to changes in food and non-food prices. We find alarming results. The disposable income of … evidence that wages substantially adjust to higher food prices, except in the long run. …
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Revisiting the labor demand curve: The wage effects of immigration and women’s entry into the US labor force, 1960–2010:
de Brauw, Alan; Russell, Joseph R. D - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
immigration has little if any negative impact on wages among natives, whereas others suggest that immigration has large, negative … effects on native wages. On the latter side of the debate, many point to the work of Borjas (2003), who takes a national view … estimate a positive, statistically significant relationship between men’s wages and women’s entry into education …
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