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The role of migration in reducing poverty in developing countries has been investigated mainly from the perspective of … (Tanzania) traced between 1991 and 2004 have been affected by massive refugee inflows to assess how migration may affect poverty …
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Every year, thousands of people flee their country of origin to seek protection mainly in neighboring countries. Understanding better the consequences of temporary population shocks on hosting economies should help to guide policies to enhance resilience in emergency situations. This study...
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weather patterns, earthquakes, droughts, and floods to food price spikes. At the same time, poor people and communities remain …
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This 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report is the fourth in an annual series that provides a comprehensive overview of major food policy developments and events. In this report, distinguished researchers, policymakers, and practitioners review what happened in food policy in 2014 at the global,...
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respect to prices, an increase in own price is expected to have a nonpositive effect on all nutrients. Our results also …
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estimate loss in household consumption and calorie intake as induced by food price increases. The results suggest a great deal …"Previous studies implicitly assume uniform price-effects across regions or provinces within countries. They also do … transmission of changes in world food prices to local food prices. In this paper, we first establish evidence of regional price …
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Empirical evidence suggests that women are more vulnerable to chronic poverty and gender inequality is likely to … condition the impacts of policies on the rest of the economy and consequently on poverty itself. While gender … debate by assessing the induced gender employment bias of current taxation policies in these countries. It explores the …
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Using the case of Zambia, this paper examines whether structural change translates into reduced poverty and improved … generated additional jobs, but the share of employment growth from these sectors was small and skewed more toward higher …
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This paper investigates whether this increase in the opportunity cost of agricultural labor incentivizes farm owners to adopt labor-saving agricultural technology. Using a regression discontinuity design and new Indian agricultural census data, this paper finds that NREGA causes a shift of...
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