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Race, equity, and public schools in post-apartheid South Africa

Yamauchi, Futoshi - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2004

"This paper uses recently available South African school census data from 1996 and 2000 to assess variations in educational quality across former population groups of public schools and dynamic changes in post-apartheid South Africa. The author argues that unless the government actively...

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Race, equity, and public schools in post-apartheid South Africa

Yamauchi, Futoshi - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2004

opportunities in labor markets, the inequality causes income inequality between Black and White. The empirical result calls for …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997245

Decentralization, pro-poor land policies, and democratic governance:

Meinzen-Dick, Ruth; Gregorio, Monica Di; Dohrn, Stephan - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008

"Decentralized approaches to development are gaining increasing prominence. Land tenure reform policy has been affected by many different types of decentralization. However, the literature on land tenure reform rarely explicitly addressed the implications of decentralization, and vice versa....

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Food prices and poverty reduction in the long run:

Headey, Derek D. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

the long run (one to five years) higher food prices reduce poverty and inequality. The magnitudes of these effects vary …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010755486

Patterns and trends of child and maternal nutrition inequalities in Nigeria

Omilola, Babatunde - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010

Despite the fact that nonincome dimensions of well-being such as nutrition and health are now placed on the global development agenda, substantial gaps remain in our knowledge about patterns and trends in nutrition inequalities in many developing countries. The main objective of this paper is to...

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Rural non-farm income and inequality in Nigeria:

Omilola, Babatunde - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

"This paper investigates the contribution of rural non-farm income to income inequality by examining the contribution …-farm income) to income inequality in Nigeria. The results reveal the relative importance of specific income sources to income … inequality and the various determinants of income inequality in rural Nigeria. Although non-farm income is distributed more …

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Estimating the impact of agricultural technology on poverty reduction in rural Nigeria:

Omilola, Babatunde - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

"It has often been argued that new agricultural technologies lead to poverty reduction. This paper argues that any changes in poverty situation attributed to those who adopt new agricultural technology (treatment group) without a counterfactual comparison of carefully selected nonadopters...

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Global macroeconomic development: The implications for poverty

Diaz-Bonilla, Eugenio - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007

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Growth-promoting social safety nets:

Alderman, Harold; Hoddinott, John - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007

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Conditional cash transfer programs: A "magic bullet" for reducing poverty?

Adato, Michelle; Hoddinott, John - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007

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