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Evolving public expenditure in Chinese agriculture: Definition, pattern, composition, and mechanism:
Yu, Bingxin; Chen, Kevin Z.; Zhang, Yumei; Zhang, Haisen - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
The Chinese economy has recently experienced a rapid and fundamental transformation, and the public expenditure on agriculture has also changed to reflect shifts in policy priorities. This paper reviewed public agricultural expenditure in a comprehensive way using detailed expenditure data at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114781
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Social protection and cash transfers to strengthen familes affected by HIV and AIDS:
Adato, Michelle; Bassett, Lucy - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
vulnerable to poverty, food insecurity, and threats to their children’s nutrition, health, and education, with irreversible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277432
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Policy-Oriented Research Impact Assessment (PORIA) case study on the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Mexican PROGRESA anti-poverty and human resource i...
Behrman, Jere R. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007
specific investments in education, health, and nutrition. The paper first describes PROGRESA/Oportunidades and estimates of the … of contributions to evolving conventional wisdom) on topics including food subsidy programs, nutrition, health, gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996477
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Is PROGRESA working?
Skoufias, Emmanuel; McClafferty, Bonnie - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001
of PROGRESA on education, health, and nutrition as well as in other areas, such as women's status and work incentives. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997135
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Is PROGRESA working?
Skoufias, Emmanuel; McClafferty, Bonnie - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001
of PROGRESA on education, health, and nutrition as well as in other areas, such as women's status and work incentives. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997287
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Spatial coordination in public good allocation: Nonparametric evidence from decentralized Indonesia
Yamauchi, Futoshi; Chowdhury, Shyamal; Dewina, Reno - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007
makes public-good investment dependent on initial local income and endowment, and makes it difficult to coordinate … investment decisions across communities. Our analysis also shows that possible strategic interactions among communities connected … with transportation infrastructure (externalities) implies spatial divergence. Empirical evidence on education and heath …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038141
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Social protection and cash transfers to strengthen familes affected by HIV and AIDS
Adato, Michelle; Bassett, Lucy - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
vulnerable to poverty, food insecurity, and threats to their children’s nutrition, health, and education, with irreversible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010595741
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Social protection and cash transfers to strengthen familes affected by HIV and AIDS:
Adato, Michelle; Bassett, Lucy - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
vulnerable to poverty, food insecurity, and threats to their children’s nutrition, health, and education, with irreversible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010579133
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The other asian enigma: Explaining the rapid reduction of undernutrition in Bangladesh:
Headey, Derek D.; Hoddinott, John F.; Ali, Disha; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
rounds of Demographic and Health Surveys covering the period from 1997 to 2011. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132694
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Do health investments improve agricultural productivity?
McNamara, Paul E.; Ulimwengu, John M.; Leonard, Kenneth L. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
Determining the causality between health measures and both income and labor productivity remains an ongoing challenge … for economists. This review paper aims to answer the question: Does improved population health lead to higher rates of … the link between health investments and agricultural productivity. The evidence from some micro-level studies suggests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008519795