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Girls take over: Long-term impacts of an early stage education intervention in the Philippines

Yamauchi, Futoshi; Liu, Yanyan - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011

This paper examines the long-term impacts of improved school quality at the elementary school stage on subsequent schooling investments and labor market outcomes using unique data from a recent survey that tracked students in the Philippines. Empirical results, based on a comparison of students...

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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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Formal-informal economy linkages and unemployment in South Africa:

Davies, Rob; Thurlow, James - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

South Africa's high involuntary unemployment and small informal sector are attributed to an underperforming formal sector and barriers to entry in the informal sector. This paper examines the economywide linkages between the formal and informal economies while accounting for different types of...

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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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The triangle of microfinance: Financial sustainability, outreach, and impact

Zeller, Manfred (contributor); Meyer, Richard L. (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

The initial success of microfinance programs in the 1970s led pioneers to think that many essential problems of the … be done. Most microfinance institutions (MFIs) are still small and vulnerable to constraints on their resources and to … some MFIs. The overall goal was to clarify the conditions under which state investment in microfinance programs might …

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Farmer groups enterprises and the marketing of staple food commodities in Africa:

Coulter, Jonathan - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007

"There are some apparently successful cases of collective marketing with staple food commodities (grains and root crops), but these are less common than cases involving higher value agricultural products. These can be attributed to the benefit/cost ratio to participants being generally higher...

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Exploring the long-term impact of development interventions within life-history narratives in rural Bangladesh

Davis, Peter - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010

interventions. It then goes on to discuss what was learned about the impact of microfinance, educational transfer, and agricultural … technology development programs from the life-history narratives. The life-history interviews show that microfinance services are … income-generating activity at some time. Microfinance contributed to at least one of the three or four most important causes …

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How important are peer effects in group lending?: Estimating a static game of incomplete information

Li, Shanjun; Liu, Yanyan; Deininger, Klaus - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

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Financial literacy

Cohen, Monique - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010

, the microfinance industry is giving more attention to building their customers’ financial capabilities, designing products …

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Innovations in rural and agriculture finance: Overview

Kloeppinger-Todd, Renate; Sharma, Manohar - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010

Everywhere in the world, small agricultural producers are entrepreneurs, traders, investors, and consumers, all rolled into one. In all these roles, small agricultural households constantly seek to use available financial instruments to improve their productivity and secure the best possible...

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