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Formal-informal economy linkages and unemployment in South Africa:
Davies, Rob; Thurlow, James - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
South Africa's high involuntary unemployment and small informal sector are attributed to an underperforming formal sector and barriers to entry in the informal sector. This paper examines the economywide linkages between the formal and informal economies while accounting for different types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008521826
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Nutrition mapping in Tanzania: an exploratory analysis
Simler, Kenneth R. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
's nutritional status as measured by anthropometry. This research in Tanzania is the first attempt to map nutrition in an African … spatial distribution of undernutrition in Tanzania?...The answer to the question of whether nutrition mapping is feasible is a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997106
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Rapid assessments in urban areas
Garrett, James L.; Downen, Jeanne - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001
CARE's experiences in Bangladesh and Tanzania suggest a number of ways that rapid assessment procedures can be strengthened …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997141
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Nutrition mapping in Tanzania: an exploratory analysis
Simler, Kenneth R. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
Tanzania to explore the possibility of applying small-area estimation methods to the study of children's nutritional status as … districts and subdistricts. In the case of Tanzania, the nutrition mapping approach reveals considerable heterogeneity in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997238
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Rapid assessments in urban areas
Garrett, James L.; Downen, Jeanne - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001
CARE's experiences in Bangladesh and Tanzania suggest a number of ways that rapid assessment procedures can be strengthened …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997301
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A 1992 social accounting matrix (SAM) for Tanzania:
Wobst, Peter - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1998
As part of the Tanzania country study being done under the IFPRI research project on Macroeconomic Reform and Regional … agricultural production in Tanzania accounts for about half of GDP, the disaggregated Tanzania SAM contains 21 agricultural sectors … out of 56 sectors in total. The Tanzania SAM consists of 56 activity accounts capturing the flows belonging to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008863973
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Economics of land degradation: The costs of action versus inaction
Nkonya, Ephraim; Gerber, Nicolas; von Braun, Joachim; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
In recent years, prices of agricultural land have increased quickly, actually doubling and tripling in many parts of the world. This land value reassessment has been prompted by rising crop prices and perceived land scarcity. But even as the value of land rises, land degradation continues and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850554
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Improving diagnostics for aflatoxin detection:
Harvey, Jagger; Gnonlonfin, Benoit; Fletcher, Mary; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850555
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Improving the measurement of food security:
Headey, Derek D.; Ecker, Olivier - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
Although food security measurement has been substantially expanded in recent decades, there persists significant dissatisfaction with existing measurement systems, especially in the wake of the global food and financial crisis. In this paper we first set out a list of criteria that an ideal food...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850572
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Indice globale della fame: La sfida della fame 2013: Sviluppare la resilienza delle comunita per la sicurezza alimentare e nutrizionale
von Grebmer, Klaus; Headey, Derek; Bene, Christophe; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
L Indice Globale della Fame 2013 (GHI), relativo ai dati del periodo 2008-2012, mostra che la fame mondiale e diminuita di un terzo rispetto al 1990. Nonostante i progressi, il livello della fame nel mondo rimane "grave", con 870 milioni di persone a soffrirne, secondo le stime...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850585