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The impact of India's rural employment guarantee on demand for agricultural technology:
Bhargava, Anil K. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
This paper investigates whether this increase in the opportunity cost of agricultural labor incentivizes farm owners to adopt labor-saving agricultural technology. Using a regression discontinuity design and new Indian agricultural census data, this paper finds that NREGA causes a shift of...
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Innovations in insuring the poor
Hill, Ruth Vargas; Torero, Maximo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
Risk and poverty are inextricably linked. Susceptibility to risk is a defining feature of what it means to be poor … the fewest tools to deal with drought, floods, and disease when they occur. Breaking the link between risk and poverty by … insuring poor people both lessens the affliction of poverty and allows poor people to participate in income growth. This set of …
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Economic Benefits and Returns to Rural Feeder Roads: Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Setting in Ethiopia:
Stifel, David; Minten, Bart; Koro, Bethlehem - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
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A multiregion general equilibrium analysis of fiscal consolidation in South Africa:
Chitiga, Margaret; Fofana, Ismael; Mabugu, Ramos - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
its nationwide impact is less important. Reducing intergovernmental transfers leads to a reduction in welfare in the four … contrast, welfare increases in the five other regions (Northern Cape, Mpumalanga, Free State, Gauteng, and the Western Cape …
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Is SAFTA trade creating or trade diverting?: A computable general equilibrium assessment with a focus on Sri Lanka
Bouet, Antoine; Mevel, Simon; Thomas, Marcelle - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
welfare enhancing for the least developed economies. …
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Gender, assets, and agricultural development programs: A conceptual framework:
Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; Johnson, Nancy; Quisumbing, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
Being able to access, control, and own productive assets such as land, labor, finance, and social capital enables people to create stable and productive lives. Yet relatively little is known about how agricultural development programs can most effectively deliver these outcomes of well-being,...
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Economic benefits and returns to rural feeder roads:
Stifel, David; Minten, Bart; Koro, Bethlehem - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
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Atlas of African agriculture research and development: Revealing agriculture's place in Africa
Sebastian, Kate (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
The Atlas of African Agriculture Research & Development is a multifaceted resource that high­lights the ubiquitous nature of smallholder agriculture in Africa; the many factors shaping the location, nature, and performance of agricultural enterprises; and the strong interde­pendencies among...
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East African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis
Waithaka, Michael (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
The second of three books in IFPRI's climate change in Africa series, East African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 10 of the countries that make up east and central Africa - Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Kenya,...
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Indice globale della fame: La sfida della fame 2013: Sviluppare la resilienza delle comunita per la sicurezza alimentare e nutrizionale
von Grebmer, Klaus; Headey, Derek; Bene, Christophe; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
L Indice Globale della Fame 2013 (GHI), relativo ai dati del periodo 2008-2012, mostra che la fame mondiale e diminuita di un terzo rispetto al 1990. Nonostante i progressi, il livello della fame nel mondo rimane "grave", con 870 milioni di persone a soffrirne, secondo le stime...
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