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Environmental migration and labor markets in Nepal:

Maystadt, Jean-François; Mueller, Valerie; Sebastian, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

While an emerging literature cites weather shocks as major determinants of migration, scant evidence exists on how such migration impacts the labor markets of receiving communities in developing countries. We address this knowledge gap by investigating the impact of weather-driven internal...

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Impact of global warming on Chinese wheat productivity:

You, Liangzhi; Rosegrant, Mark W.; Fang, Cheng; Wood, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005

-2000 Chinese crop-specific panel dataset to investigate the climate impact on Chinese wheat yield growth. We find that a 1 percent …"Climate change continues to have major impact on crop productivity all over the world. While many researchers have … relatively few direct assessments on the impact of observed climate change on past crop yield and growth. We use a 1979 …

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Seasonal undernutrition in rural Ethiopia:

Ferro-Luzzi, Anna; Morris, Saul S.; Taffesse, Samson; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001

Marked seasonal variability of both production- and consumption is characteristic of virtually all farming systems in the developing world. This study examines the magnitude and significance of seasonal undernutrition in south central Ethiopia, southern Shewa and Zigwa Boto, a peasant...

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The development push of refugees: Evidence from Tanzania:

Maystadt, Jean-François; Duranton, Gilles - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

resilience in emergency situations. This study exploits a 1991â€“2010 Tanzanian household panel to assess the effects of the …

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Adoption of weather index insurance: Learning from willingness to pay among a panel of households in rural Ethiopia

Hill, Ruth Vargas; Hoddinott, John; Kumar, Neha - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011

In this paper we examine which farmers would be early entrants into weather indexinsurance markets in Ethiopia, were such markets to develop on a large scale. We do this by examining the determinants of willingness to pay for weather insurance among 1,400 Ethiopian households that have been...

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Consumer acceptance of provitamin A orange maize in rural Zambia:

Meenakshi, J. V.; Banerji, A.; Manyong, Victor; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010

This study analyzes consumer acceptance of biofortified orange maize in rural Zambia by eliciting consumers' willingness to pay. It attempts to examine the impact of nutrition information, comparing the use of simulated radio versus community leaders in transmitting the nutrition message, on...

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Community, inequality, and local public goods: Evidence from School Financing in South Africa

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

"To examine how local income distribution affects both a community's ability to pay for schooling and the quality of that schooling, this research merges household and school census data from South Africa. Empirical results are twofold. First, while the median income and the average household...

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Joint estimation of farmers' stated willingness to pay for agricultural services:

Ulimwengu, John; Sanyal, Prabuddha - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011

In many developing countries, to sustain the provision of agricultural services to farmers, many have advocated the use of service fees. Successful implementation of such schemes requires understanding of determinants of farmers' willingness to pay. In this paper we use a multivariate probit...

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Valuing the environment in developing countries: Modeling the impact of distrust in public authorities' ability to deliver public services on the citizens' willingness to pay for i...

Birol, Ekin; Das, Sukanya - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010

In this paper, we employ the choice experiment method to estimate local citizens' valuation of a public intervention that proposes to improve the quality of an important environmental resource, namely, the Ganges River in India. To elicit citizens' willingness to pay (WTP) higher municipality...

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How safe is my food?: Assessing the effect of information and credible certification on consumer demand for food safety in developing countries

Birol, Ekin; Roy, Devesh; Torero, Maximo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010

The literature regarding consumer demand for safer food in developing countries is scant, and the general assumption is that these consumers' willingness to pay (WTP, as an indicator of their demand) is constrained by their low ability to pay (ATP). There are, however, a number of developing...

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