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Local sources of resilience: Working with social capital:

Bernier, Quinn; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

capital. Social capital includes â€œfeatures of social organization, such as networks, norms, and social trust, that … are localâ€level organizations and less formal social networks. …

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Resilience and social capital:

Bernier, Quinn; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

role of social capital. This paper, using the case studies of iddirs (funeral societies) in Ethiopia and migrant networks …

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Regional policy networks: IFPRI's experience with decentralization

Paarlberg, Robert - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005

"IFPRI, traditionally a centralized development organization, is now embracing networks as one institutional strategy … to achieve “regional decentralization.” Since 1999 IFPRI has developed and operated two formal regional networks, in East … Africa and South Asia, and additional regional networks have been envisioned for Southern Africa and Central America. IFPRI …

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Nonmarket networks among migrants

Yamauchi, Futoshi; Tanabe, Sakiko - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2003

"This paper examines nonmarket interactions among migrants from same origins in the urban labor market of Bangkok, Thailand. We test whether the labor-market performance of previous migrants has externalities to that of new migrants who moved from the same province of origin. Our empirical...

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Collective action and vulnerability: Burial societies in rural Ethiopia

Dercon, Stefan; Hoddinott, John; Krishnan, Pramila; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008

household living standards, study the correlates of participation in groups and formal and informal networks, and discuss the … relationship of networks with access to other forms of capital. In this context, they assess how one form of collective action … shocks, but shows that the better-off households belong to more groups and have larger networks. In addition, where …

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Nonmarket networks among migrants

Yamauchi, Futoshi; Tanabe, Sakiko - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2003

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Social learning, neighborhood effects, and investment in human capital

Yamauchi, Futoshi - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005

"This paper shows that neighborhood factors matter in schooling investments: in the face of the availability of a new technology that altered schooling returns, agents learned of the benefits of new returns to schooling from neighbors and adjusted schooling investments over time. Using household...

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Social learning, neighborhood effects, and investment in human capital: Evidence from Green-Revolution India

Yamauchi, Futoshi - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005

"This paper empirically identifies social learning and neighborhood effects in schooling investments in a new technology regime. The estimates of learning-investment rule from farm household panel data at the onset of the Green Revolution in India, show that (1) agents learn about schooling...

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Facilitating collective action and enhancing local knowledge: a herbal medicine case study in Talaandig communities, Philippines

Hartanto, Herlina; Valmores, Cecil - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

"The indigenous people of Talaanding in Basac village, Bukidnon, the Philippines, had to deal with a high occurrence of disease and a high number of malnourished children in their village. This situation was due to the inability of the local health clinic to provide adequate health service and...

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Social learning, selection, and HIV infection: Evidence from Malawi

Yamauchi, Futoshi; Ueyama, Mika - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008

"This paper examines social learning regarding HIV infection, using HIV test results and sibling death data from Malawi. In the analysis, we compare hypotheses on social learning, selection. and common factors. Empirical results show that young women are less likely to be HIV-infected if they...

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