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Exchange rate misalignment and its effects on agricultural producer support estimates

Cheng, Fuzhi; Orden, David - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005

"There have been different degrees of exchange rate disequilibrium in the developing countries during transition or reform periods since the mid 1980s. The level of the exchange rate and its misalignment can have significant impacts on agricultural policy measures such as Producer Support...

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Agricultural policies in India

Mullen, Kathleen; Orden, David; Gulati, Ashok - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005

"Since the early 1990s, India has undergone substantial economic policy reform and economic growth. Though reforms in agricultural policy have lagged those in other sectors, they have nonetheless created a somewhat more open economic orientation. In this study, we evaluate the protection and...

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Out of the shadow of famine: evolving food markets and food policy in Bangladesh

Ahmed, Raisuddin (contributor); … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

This book describes how Bangladesh transformed its food markets and food policies to free the country from the constant threat of famine. Since 1990, the Bangladeshi government has dismantled its food rationing system, privatized grain distribution, eased restrictions on international trade, and...

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Agricultural wages and food prices in Egypt

Datt, Gaurav; Olmsted, Jennifer - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1998

The trend in real agricultural wages in Egypt is described well by an inverted U-shaped curve with a peak around 1985. But the rise and fall of real wages masks a complex dynamic process by which nominal wages adjust in response to changes in food prices. We use governorate-level panel data for...

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Why the poor care about partial versus general equilibrium effects - Part I

Wobst, Peter - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2000

The paper compares the effects of productivity growth in agriculture in a standard CGE model and an adjusted CGE model with special features in order to replicate partial equilibrium behavior of traded agricultural sectors within a general equilibrium framework. The fixed-price, partial...

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Nutrition mapping in Tanzania: an exploratory analysis

Simler, Kenneth R. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

's nutritional status as measured by anthropometry. This research in Tanzania is the first attempt to map nutrition in an African … spatial distribution of undernutrition in Tanzania?...The answer to the question of whether nutrition mapping is feasible is a …

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Rapid assessments in urban areas

Garrett, James L.; Downen, Jeanne - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001

CARE's experiences in Bangladesh and Tanzania suggest a number of ways that rapid assessment procedures can be strengthened …

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Nutrition mapping in Tanzania: an exploratory analysis

Simler, Kenneth R. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

Tanzania to explore the possibility of applying small-area estimation methods to the study of children's nutritional status as … districts and subdistricts. In the case of Tanzania, the nutrition mapping approach reveals considerable heterogeneity in …

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Rapid assessments in urban areas

Garrett, James L.; Downen, Jeanne - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001

CARE's experiences in Bangladesh and Tanzania suggest a number of ways that rapid assessment procedures can be strengthened …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997301

A 1992 social accounting matrix (SAM) for Tanzania:

Wobst, Peter - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1998

As part of the Tanzania country study being done under the IFPRI research project on Macroeconomic Reform and Regional … agricultural production in Tanzania accounts for about half of GDP, the disaggregated Tanzania SAM contains 21 agricultural sectors … out of 56 sectors in total. The Tanzania SAM consists of 56 activity accounts capturing the flows belonging to the …

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