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An evaluation of poverty prevalence in China: New evidence from four recent surveys:

Zhang, Chunni; Xu, Qi; Zhang, Xiaobo; Xie, Yu - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013

Knowledge of actual poverty prevalence is important for any society concerned with improving public welfare and reducing poverty. In this paper, we calculate and compare the poverty incidence rate in China using four nationally representative surveys: the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) of...

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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. Using the fact that in traditional, patriarchal societies sons are often preferred to daughters, we isolated exogenous variation in the number of children born to a mother and...

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Does rice farming shape individualism and innovation? A response to Talhelm et al. (2014):

Ruan, Jianqing; Xie, Zhuan; Zhang, Xiaobo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

Talhelm et al. (2014) provided an original rice theory to explain large psychological differences across countries and even within countries and their impact on innovation. However, their findings are subject to the problems of sample bias, measurement error, and model misspecification. After...

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Social protection and cash transfers to strengthen familes affected by HIV and AIDS:

Adato, Michelle; Bassett, Lucy - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

vulnerable to poverty, food insecurity, and threats to their children’s nutrition, health, and education, with irreversible …

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Land and schooling: Transferring wealth across generations

Quisumbing, Agnes R. (contributor); … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

among its individual members. They look at how these differences in land holdings and education affect what sons and …

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Public expenditures, growth, and poverty: Lessons from developing countries

Fan, Shenggen (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

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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Natural disasters, self-Insurance, and human capital investment: Evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Malawi

Yamauchi, Futoshi; Yohannes, Yisehac; Quisumbing, Agnes R. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

"This paper uses panel data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Malawi to examine the impacts of disasters on dynamic human capital production. Our empirical results show that accumulation of biological human capital prior to a disaster helps children maintain investments during the post-disaster...

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Financial literacy

Cohen, Monique - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010

The global financial crisis has intensified the problems of over-indebtedness, especially for the poor. In this context, the microfinance industry is giving more attention to building their customers’ financial capabilities, designing products that respond to their needs and preferences, and...

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Spatial networks, labor supply, and income dynamics: Evidence from Indonesian villages

Yamauchi, Futoshi; Muto, Megumi; Chowdhury, Shyamal; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

transition to nonagricultural labor markets depend on the distance to economic centers and the household education level. In … particular, postprimary education significantly increases the benefit from local spatial connectivity improvement in remote areas … and promotes labor transition to nonagricultural sectors. Education and local road quality are complementary, mutually …

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Policy-Oriented Research Impact Assessment (PORIA) case study on the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Mexican PROGRESA anti-poverty and human resource i...

Behrman, Jere R. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007

specific investments in education, health, and nutrition. The paper first describes PROGRESA/Oportunidades and estimates of the …

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