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Improving governance to eradicate hunger and poverty:

Birner, Regina - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007

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What determines public expenditure allocations?: A review of theories, and implications for agricultural public investments

Mogues, Tewodaj - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012

, bureaucrats, interest groups, and donorsâ€”and of institutions and political and economic governance environments affect the …

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The political economy of MGNREGS spending in Andhra Pradesh:

Sheahan, Megan; Liu, Yanyan; Barrett, Christopher B.; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

While government spending on pro-poor community asset creation and income-transfers could have compounding positive effects on poverty reduction, it is important to first study trends in the allocation of funds, particularly as they relate to the susceptibility of the program to political...

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Agricultural extension in Ethiopia through a gender and governance lens:

Mogues, Tewodaj; Cohen, Marc J.; Birner, Regina; Lemma, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

Drawing on a household survey collected in eight woredas in seven Ethiopian regions in 2009, as well as on qualitative fieldwork in four of the eight woredas, this paper provides analysis of agricultural extension delivery in Ethiopia. While overall extension services are relatively accessible...

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Resilience Programming among Nongovernmental Organizations: Lessons for Policymakers

Frankenberger, Timothy R.; Constas, Mark A.; Nelson, Suzanne - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

This food policy report reviews resilience processes, activities, and outcomes by examining a number of case studies of initiatives by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to enhance resilience capacity, and draws implications for policymakers and other stakeholders looking to strengthen resilience.

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Common-pool resources, livelihoods, and resilience: Critical challenges for governance in Cambodia

Ratner, Blake D. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011

, poverty reduction, and environmental sustainability. This paper examines strategic policy choices and governance challenges … initiatives depends on more systemic governance reforms that address issues of stakeholder representation, mechanisms of …

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How to overcome the governance challenges of implementing NREGA

Raabe, Katharina; Birner, Regina; Sekher, Madhushree; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010

implement due to governance challenges related to elite capture, leakages, and corruption. The ability to identify how the … governance challenges of program implementation can be met requires detailed insights into the actual process of program … research method, referred to as Process-Influence Mapping, to shed light on these issues and related governance challenges …

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Security analysis for agroterrorism: applying the threat, vulnerability, consequence framework to developing countries

Linacre, Nicholas A.; Koo, Bonwoo; Rosegrant, Mark W.; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005

"We examine access to, use of, and participation in decisions on improved water supply in the Volta basin of Ghana, one of the first countries to introduce a community-based approach to rural water supply on a large scale. While 71 percent of the households interviewed have access to improved...

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Governing land: reflections from IFPRI research

Dohrn, Stephan - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

governance to promote strategies and policies targeted toward the achievement of gender equity, poverty reduction, and …

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Lessons learned from the dragon (China) and the elephant (India): essays from IFPRI's 2004-2005 Annual Report [In Chinese]

von Braun, Joachim; Gulati, Ashok; Fan, Shenggen; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005

"The world made significant progress on reducing poverty between 1981 and 2001 — the number of people in developing countries living on less than US$1 a day fell from 1.5 billion to 1.1 billion, or from 40 to 21 percent of the world's population. In fact, however, nearly all this progress...

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