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Aid effectiveness and capacity development: Implications for economic growth in developing countries

Sanyal, Prabuddha; Babu, Suresh - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008

"Although adequate country capacity is considered to be one of the critical missing factors in development outcomes, a lack of understanding of how capacity contributes to economic development and of how to account for the contribution of capacity development to economic growth remains a...

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The comprehensive Africa agriculture program as a collective institution:

Kolavalli, Shashidhara; Birner, Regina; Flaherty, Kathleen - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012

A number of factors favor a collective strategy for African countries to build their reputation regarding improved governance and commitment to agriculture. These include negative spillover effects of poor governance (for example, obstacles to developing regional markets), improved bargaining...

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Aid effectiveness: How is the Lâ€™Aquila food security initiative doing?:

Benin, Samuel - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

This paper uses case studies of Bangladesh, Ghana, Rwanda, and Senegal to assess the degree to which the Lâ€™Aquila Food Security Initiative (AFSI) has been implemented within the framework of managing for development results (MfDR) and to evaluate progress in various outcomes, including...

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Market interdependence and volatility transmission among major crops:

Gardebroek, Cornelis; Hernandez, Manuel A.; Robles, Miguel - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the dynamics of volatility between the corn, wheat, and soybean markets … in the United States. Volatility interactions across markets, if they exist, may lower the effectiveness of … evaluate the level of interdependence and volatility transmission across these major crops on a daily, weekly, and monthly …

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Building a resilient global food system by lowering food price spikes and volatility:

Fan, Shenggen; Brzeska, Joanna - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

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Are shocks really increasing? A selective review of the global frequency, severity, scope, and impact of five types of shocks:

Zseleczky, Laura; Yosef, Sivan - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

of shocks: conflicts, natural disasters, climate change, food price volatility, and health crises related to food safety …

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Should private storage be subsidized to stabilize agricultural markets after price support schemes are removed?:

Femenia, Fabienne - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012

Currently, there is increased focus on the methods in which public interventions stabilize agricultural markets. The subsidization of private storage is one of the options advocated. However, the efficiency of such an instrument is still being discussed and has not yet been explored in the...

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2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); …

This 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report is the fourth in an annual series that provides a comprehensive overview of major food policy developments and events. In this report, distinguished researchers, policymakers, and practitioners review what happened in food policy in 2014 at the global,...

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Price, inventories, and volatility in the global wheat market

Pietola, Kyösti; Liu, Xing; Robles, Miguel - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010

volatility and exogenous shocks in the price and inventory series are controlled for in estimation. Redressing the empirical … linkage between volatility, prices, and inventories is important because volatility increases returns to inventories, which in … volatility is an important determinant in the short-run conditional mean processes for both the price and inventories. The …

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Improving the measurement of food security:

Headey, Derek D.; Ecker, Olivier - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012

Although food security measurement has been substantially expanded in recent decades, there persists significant dissatisfaction with existing measurement systems, especially in the wake of the global food and financial crisis. In this paper we first set out a list of criteria that an ideal food...

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