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convergence has occurred in yields of the three crops. The econometric findings are consistent with the GE results and suggest … that conditional convergence has occurred in all three crops, which demonstrates that yields in less productive regions …
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their nutrition sensitivity at the policy level, using a convergence framework. The three key entry points for agriculture …
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country received 2.5 percent growth as a result of spillover. Finally, our results suggest that convergence dynamics is much …
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. Although the lack of convergence is well documented, there lingers a substantial gap in articulating what needs to be assessed … to ensure that convergence is indeed happening, or not happening. In an effort to close this gap, in this paper we … describe a possible framework to enable convergence across sectors for action on nutrition. Our framework notes that issues …
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welfare requirements. The main objective of the convergence agenda exposed in this paper is to identify strategies that would … growth and poverty reduction; (4) laid out the theory for the measurement of the degree of convergence of public expenditures … reduction; as well as (6) provided initial evidence proving the validity of the theory of convergence. …
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"While nutritional intake in early childhood provides the basis for a child's health capital, investments in schooling provide the basis for a child's knowledge capital. That store of knowledge, in turn, will eventually be rewarded in the labor market. Does the good health built up by the child...
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"This paper assesses the impact of prime-age mortality on human capital formation and labor markets by examining, first, the impact on adolescents, who may leave school in order to enter the labor market, and second, the impact on adult females who, upon the loss of a breadwinner, may decide to...
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"To examine how local income distribution affects both a community's ability to pay for schooling and the quality of that schooling, this research merges household and school census data from South Africa. Empirical results are twofold. First, while the median income and the average household...
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"This paper examines the effects of early childhood nutrition on schooling inputs and outcomes to assess the dynamic nature of human capital production, using panel data from South Africa. Height-for-age Z-score is used as a measure of health and nutritional status in early childhood. Based on a...
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"This paper examines the impact of prime-age adult mortality on the transition from school to the labor market of adolescents and on decisions by female adults to participate in the labor force in South Africa. The analysis focuses on that period—1998–2004—when South Africa experienced...
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