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Insights from poverty maps for development and food relief program targeting: an application to Malawi

Benson, Todd - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

decisionmaking tool in targeting relief and development programs, and it provides objective and nonpolitical information that is also …

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Insights from poverty maps for development and food relief program targeting: an application to Malawi

Benson, Todd - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

"Poverty mapping applies models of household welfare developed from detailed household consumption and expenditure … aggregate estimates of household welfare and poverty at a highly disaggregated level—down to the level of local government wards …. Given the close association between welfare and food security in most Malawi households, such a detailed poverty map can be …

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Integrating survey and ethnographic methods to evaluate conditional cash transfer programs:

Adato, Michelle - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008

"Survey and ethnographic methods have been combined in the evaluations of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs for the governments of Nicaragua and Turkey. This paper describes the quantitative and qualitative research designs for these evaluations, discusses the relative benefits 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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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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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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Innovations in insuring the poor

Hill, Ruth Vargas; Torero, Maximo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

policies. The series does not document the proven impact of insurance markets for the welfare of poor people; rather, it brings …

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