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Short- and long-term effects of the 1998 Bangladesh flood on rural wages
Mueller, Valerie; Quisumbing, Agnes - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
Natural disasters have particularly devastating impacts on economic growth in developing countries because they impede the accumulation of capital. The resilience of labor markets is crucial especially for the poor who rely only on labor to diversify their income portfolio and buffer against...
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Reducing poverty and hunger in Asia:
Islam, Nurul ed. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
Investment Priorities for Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Asia Shenggen Fan, Joanna Brzeska, and Ghada Shields
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996513
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How does climate change alter agricultural strategies to support food security?:
Thornton, Philip K.; Lipper, Leslie - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
The purpose of the paper is to identify how climate change affects how we should approach the process of transforming agricultural systems (including crops, livestock, fisheries and forestry) to support global food security and poverty reduction in a sustainable way. We also identify...
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Economic implications of foreign exchange rationing in Ethiopia:
Dorosh, Paul A.; Robinson, Sherman; Ahmed, Hashim - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
-protected importables. Moreover, major external shocks to the economy (including increases in world prices of fuel in 2007 and early 2008 … the effects of changes in world prices and to assess dynamic effects of shocks and policies on growth and income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933116
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Economic growth and distribution of income: A growth model to fit Ghanaian data
Nelson, Harumi T.; Roe, Terry L.; Diao, Xinshen - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008476195
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A multi-level analysis of public spending, growth and poverty reduction in Egypt:
Fan, Shenggen; Al-Riffai, Perrihan; El-Said, Moataz; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
international dollars, or purchasing power parity (World Bank 2005a). In the decade from 1975 to 1985, Egypt enjoyed rapid economic …
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Revisiting the labor demand curve: The wage effects of immigration and women’s entry into the US labor force, 1960–2010:
de Brauw, Alan; Russell, Joseph R. D - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
The debate over the wage effects of immigration for native workers is an old one. One side of the debate claims that … immigration has little if any negative impact on wages among natives, whereas others suggest that immigration has large, negative … of the US economy and estimates a wage elasticity of -0.4 with respect to immigration. In this paper, we replicate and …
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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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