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The political economy of MGNREGS spending in Andhra Pradesh:

Sheahan, Megan; Liu, Yanyan; Barrett, Christopher B.; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

the susceptibility of the program to political clientelism. This paper uses expenditure data at the local level in Andhra … patronage played a small part in fund distribution after the 2009 election. Indeed most variation in expenditures is explained …

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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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Rural institutions and producer organizations in imperfect markets: experiences from producer marketing groups in semi-arid eastern Kenya

Shiferaw, Bekele; Obare, Gideon; Muricho, Geoffrey - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

remedy pervasive market failures in rural economies. The analysis presented here with a case study from eastern Kenya has …

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Systematic client consultation in development

Babu, Suresh Chandra; Brown, Lynn R; McClafferty, Bonnie - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1997

. Case studies utilizing client consultation in Ghana, India, Kenya, and Mali illustrate the hypothesis that integration of …

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Subdividing the commons: the politics of property rights transformation in Kenya's Maasailand

Mwangi, Esther - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

group ranches to individualized property systems among the Maasai pastoralists of Kajiado district in Kenya. It addresses …

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Aflatoxins: Finding solutions for improved food safety

Unnevehr, Laurian; Grace, Delia - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013

. Aflatoxicosis: Evidence from Kenya by Abigael Obura 3. Aflatoxin Exposure and Chronic Human Diseases: Estimates of Burden of Disease …: Implications for Intervention in Kenya by Sophie Walker and Bryn Davies 8. Market-led Aflatoxin Interventions: Smallholder …

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Measuring progress toward empowerment: Women's empowerment in agriculture index: Baseline report

Malapit, Hazel J.; Sproule, Kathryn; Kovarik, Chiara; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the Womenâ€™s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) baseline survey results, summarizing both findings from the WEAI survey and the relationships between the WEAI and various outcomes of interest to the US Governmentâ€™s Feed the...

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The triangle of microfinance: Financial sustainability, outreach, and impact

Zeller, Manfred (contributor); Meyer, Richard L. (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

The initial success of microfinance programs in the 1970s led pioneers to think that many essential problems of the … be done. Most microfinance institutions (MFIs) are still small and vulnerable to constraints on their resources and to … some MFIs. The overall goal was to clarify the conditions under which state investment in microfinance programs might …

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Farmer groups enterprises and the marketing of staple food commodities in Africa:

Coulter, Jonathan - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007

"There are some apparently successful cases of collective marketing with staple food commodities (grains and root crops), but these are less common than cases involving higher value agricultural products. These can be attributed to the benefit/cost ratio to participants being generally higher...

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Exploring the long-term impact of development interventions within life-history narratives in rural Bangladesh

Davis, Peter - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010

interventions. It then goes on to discuss what was learned about the impact of microfinance, educational transfer, and agricultural … technology development programs from the life-history narratives. The life-history interviews show that microfinance services are … income-generating activity at some time. Microfinance contributed to at least one of the three or four most important causes …

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