policy use case studies from South Asia (Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan) and East Asia (Indonesia, the Philippines, and …In developing countries across Asia, food marketing parastatals have played an important role in agricultural policy …, the editors—clearly from the latter camp—pose three general questions: Why must parastatal-centered policies in Asia …

, particularly in Asia and Africa (Ravallion, Chen, and Sangraula 2007), and depend on agriculture as their primary source of … livelihood. This report provides an overview of current knowledge of the impact of health issues on farm-level productivity and … flourish. Lack of diet diversity can lead to malnutrition. Certain animal diseases also can infect humans. Labor migration …

support services for raising agricultural productivity. This study introduces a new dimension to the puzzle of agricultural … productivity growth in SSA continues to lag behind every other region of the world, growing at rates that are roughly half of the … productivity growth in SSA: the role of the input mix and the need to increase capital and inputs per worker not only to boost …

transition to nonagricultural labor markets depend on the distance to economic centers and the household education level. In … and promotes labor transition to nonagricultural sectors. Education and local road quality are complementary, mutually …"This paper uses household panel and village census data from Indonesia to examine the impact of spatial connectivity …

productivity impacts of cognitive skills without controlling for skill endogeneity." from authors' abstract …"Most investigations into the importance and determinants of adult cognitive skills assume that (1) they are produced … collected in Guatemala over 35 years to investigate production functions for adult cognitive skills—that is, reading …