Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 209
Cover Image
Beyond the bari: Gender, groups, and social relations in rural Bangladesh
Quisumbing, Agnes R. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
This paper uses a longitudinal data set from rural Bangladesh to analyze the factors that affect men's and women's ability to participate in groups and to engage in relationships with powerful and influential people. Unlike studies from other countries that find group membership to be positively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850593
Cover Image
How important are peer effects in group lending?: Estimating a static game of incomplete information
Li, Shanjun; Liu, Yanyan; Deininger, Klaus - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008476186
Cover Image
Local sources of resilience: Working with social capital:
Bernier, Quinn; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
capital. Social capital includes “features of social organization, such as networks, norms, and social trust, that … are localâ€level organizations and less formal social networks. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277415
Cover Image
Resilience and social capital:
Bernier, Quinn; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
role of social capital. This paper, using the case studies of iddirs (funeral societies) in Ethiopia and migrant networks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277436
Cover Image
Regional policy networks: IFPRI's experience with decentralization
Paarlberg, Robert - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005
"IFPRI, traditionally a centralized development organization, is now embracing networks as one institutional strategy … to achieve “regional decentralization.” Since 1999 IFPRI has developed and operated two formal regional networks, in East … Africa and South Asia, and additional regional networks have been envisioned for Southern Africa and Central America. IFPRI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996498
Cover Image
Nonmarket networks among migrants
Yamauchi, Futoshi; Tanabe, Sakiko - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2003
"This paper examines nonmarket interactions among migrants from same origins in the urban labor market of Bangkok, Thailand. We test whether the labor-market performance of previous migrants has externalities to that of new migrants who moved from the same province of origin. Our empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997216
Cover Image
Collective action and vulnerability: Burial societies in rural Ethiopia
Dercon, Stefan; Hoddinott, John; Krishnan, Pramila; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
household living standards, study the correlates of participation in groups and formal and informal networks, and discuss the … relationship of networks with access to other forms of capital. In this context, they assess how one form of collective action … shocks, but shows that the better-off households belong to more groups and have larger networks. In addition, where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005105953
Cover Image
Nonmarket networks among migrants
Yamauchi, Futoshi; Tanabe, Sakiko - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2003
"This paper examines nonmarket interactions among migrants from same origins in the urban labor market of Bangkok, Thailand. We test whether the labor-market performance of previous migrants has externalities to that of new migrants who moved from the same province of origin. Our empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037810
Cover Image
Costly posturing: relative status, ceremonies and early child development in China:
Chen, Xi; Zhang, Xiaobo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
Participating in and presenting gifts at funerals, weddings, and other ceremonies held by fellow villagers have been regarded as social norms in Chinese villages for thousands of years. However, it is more burdensome for the poor to take part in these social occasions than for the rich. Because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010593551
Cover Image
Peer effects, risk pooling, and status seeking: What explains gift spending escalation in rural China?
Chen, Xi; Kanbur, Ravi; Zhang, Xiaobo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
It has been widely documented that the poor spend a significant proportion of their income on gifts even at the expense of basic consumption. We test three competing explanations of this phenomenon—peer effect, status concern, and risk pooling—based on a census-type primary household survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395603