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Fertility, agricultural labor supply, and production: Instrumental variable evidence from Uganda:
Van Campenhout, Bjorn - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
Human fertility is likely to affect agricultural production through its effect on the supply of agricultural labor … Uganda—a country that combines a dominant agricultural sector with one of the highest fertility rates in the world. We found … that fertility has a sizable negative effect on household labor allocation to subsistence agriculture. Households with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114773
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Monitoring systems for managing natural resources: economics, indicators and environmental externalities in a Costa Rican watershed
Hazell, Peter; Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Dixon, John; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001
The worsening degradation of natural resources urgently requires the adoption of more sustainable management practices. This need has led to growing interest and investment in monitoring systems for tracking the condition of natural resources. This study is concerned with the design of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996735
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Could futures markets help growers better manage coffee price risks in Costa Rica?:
Hazell, P. B. R. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2000
Costa Rican coffee farmers are almost fully exposed to world price variability. Yet, despite small farm sizes, specialization in coffee, and a marketing system that prolongs uncertainty and aggravates cash flow problems, this study finds that most farmers still manage their price risks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996753
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The consequences of early childhood growth failure over the life course:
Hoddinott, John; Maluccio, John; Behrman, Jere R.; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
This paper examines the impact over the life course of early childhood growth failure as measured by achieved height at 36 months. It uses data collected on individuals who participated in a nutritional supplementation trial between 1969 and 1977 in rural Guatemala and who were subsequently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009000963
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Evaluating the Mexico city policy: How US foreign policy affects fertility outcomes and child health in Ghana
Jones, Kelly M. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
US development assistance represents a significant source of funding for many population programs in poor countries. The Mexico City policy, known derisively as the global gag rule, restricts activities of foreign nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that receive such assistance. The intent of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395595
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Urbanization and fertility rates in Ethiopia:
Tadesse, Fanaye; Headey, Derek - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762100
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The impact of technical change in agriculture on human fertility: district-level evidence from India
Vosti, Stephen A.; Witcover, Julie; Lipton, Michael - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1994
human fertility. Little comprehensive research, however, has been done on the effects of those technologies themselves on … human fertility leaving unanswered the question of whether particular types of agricultural technologies were actually … agricultural change (from 1961 to 1981) and changes in human fertility (from 1971 to 1981) to assess the impact of the former on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996708
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Population growth and policy options in the developing world
Bongaarts, John; Bruce, Judith - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1998
place despite declining fertility rates and identify a number of factors. Well-designed population policies are broad in … discrimination against women and improve the lives of children, as well as those seeking to reduce fertility and population growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005101369
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Population policy and individual choice: a theoretical investigation
Nerlove, Marc; Razin, Assaf; Sadka, Efraim - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1987
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113262
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An analysis of institutions and policy processes for selected antipoverty interventions in Bangladesh:
Ahmed, Akhter U.; Khondkar, Mubina - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
aspects of new agricultural technology interventions and the policy processes of food- and cash-based education incentive …. The paper then examines the motivation and policy processes of the Food for Education program and its subsequent … replacement, the cash-based Primary Education Stipend program. The study reviews similarities and differences among selected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008862344