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crops to be studied, policy analysts require an estimation procedure that is less data-intensive and time-intensive than … standard econometric estimation procedures. In this paper, a relatively new, low-cost procedure, based on demand for food … characteristics, is applied, illustrating its usefulness for analysis of demand for potatoes in Bangladesh and Pakistan. In Asia, the …
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—on income distribution and asset accumulation in rural Pakistan. Using income decomposition techniques on a three-year panel …
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Taking successful development interventions to scale is critical if the world is to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and make essential gains in the fight for improved agricultural productivity, rural incomes, and nutrition. How to support scaling up in these three areas, however, is a...
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Policy Research Institute’s Pakistan Strategy Support Program (PSSP) is working to address these topics through high … policy landscape for agricultural water management in Pakistan, to better understand how to engage with stakeholders in the … between various institutions influencing the water sector in Pakistan. Group interviews were conducted with national …
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policy use case studies from South Asia (Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan) and East Asia (Indonesia, the Philippines, and …
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Assets are an important means of coping with adverse events in developing countries but the role of gendered ownership is not yet fully understood. This paper investigates changes in assets owned by the household head, his spouse, or jointly by both of them in response to shocks in rural...
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promoted as a strategy to increase dietary intakes of vitamin A among young children and adult women in Uganda. As an … and nonland assets controlled by women, affect adoption and diffusion decisions. …
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whether benefits affect men and women equally. Using a randomized field experiment in Senegal and Burkina Faso, we compare … hypothesize that this difference results from the fact that although men and women are equally exposed to yield risk, women face … essence, the basis risk associated with agricultural insurance products is higher for women. Insurance was more effective than …
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Interventions aimed at increasing water availability for livelihood and domestic activities have great potential to improve various determinants of undernutrition, such as the quantity and diversity of foods consumed within the household, income generation, and women’s empowerment....
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and development implementers could improve outcomes for women in future projects. …
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