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Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty assesses the efficacy of poverty reduction programs in Latin America, Africa, and Asia by synthesizing studies conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute over the past ten years. Overall, the studies find that investments in...
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"La comunidad mundial y las instituciones internacionales han dado una alta prioridad al desarrollo y el alivio de la pobreza. Los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio, establecidos por Naciones Unidas para el 2015, hacen un llamado para reducir en un 50% el número de personas que viven con...
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"Trade liberalization is expected to act positively on development and poverty reduction... The traditional argument in …
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Economic development transforms an economy from one that is largely agricultural to one that is largely manufacturing … substantial evidence, however, that raising agricultural productivity is possible and that agricultural growth plays a key role in … productivity appears to be feasible. Current government policies are generally consistent with attaining continued high …
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The variety of views about ICTs reveals that their role in development is unclear, especially without convincing … reduction. This book, addresses several pressing questions surrounding ICTs. How do ICTs affect economic development in low … facilitate their potential to enhance development and the inclusion of poor constituents? The book presents researchersâ …
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capital and technology in the incipient stage of industrialization." from Authors' Abstract …
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. Pro-poor livestock development depends, therefore, on the strengthening of institutions that will help smallholders …
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The second of three books in IFPRI's climate change in Africa series, East African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 10 of the countries that make up east and central Africa - Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Kenya,...
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This 2013 Global Food Policy Report is the third in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments and events. Initiated in response to resurgent interest in food and nutrition security, the series offers a yearly overview of the food policy developments that...
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