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Southern African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis
Hachigonta, Sepo (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
eight of the countries that make up southern Africa — Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland … change makes the challenges greater. Southern Africa is already experiencing rising temperatures, shifting precipitation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132811
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Quality or quantity?
Handa, Sudhanshu; Simler, Kenneth - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2000
The role of school quality in determining educational outcomes has received much research attention in the United States. However, in developing countries, where a significant part of the school age population never attends school, policymakers must consider both quality and quantity when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997108
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Quality or quantity?
Handa, Sudhanshu; Simler, Kenneth - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2000
The role of school quality in determining educational outcomes has received much research attention in the United States. However, in developing countries, where a significant part of the school age population never attends school, policymakers must consider both quality and quantity when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997242
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Raising primary school enrollment in developing countries
Handa, Sudhanshu - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1999
Few policies are as universally accepted as raising primary school enrolment in developing countries, but the policy levers for achieving this goal are not straight forward. This paper merges household survey data with detailed school supply characteristics from official sources, in order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997260
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Parameter estimation for a computable general equilibrium model: a maximum entropy approach
Arndt, Channing; Robinson, Sherman; Tarp, Finn - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1999
We introduce a maximum entropy approach to parameter estimation for computable general equilibrium (CGE) models. The approach applies information theory to estimating a system of nonlinear simultaneous equations. It has a number of advantages. First, it imposes all general equilibrium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008863981
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Atlas of African agriculture research and development: Revealing agriculture's place in Africa
Sebastian, Kate (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
nature of smallholder agriculture in Africa; the many factors shaping the location, nature, and performance of agricultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850582
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East African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis
Waithaka, Michael (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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 … will increase the efforts needed to achieve sustainable food security throughout the region. East Africa's populations is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850583
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The triangle of microfinance: Financial sustainability, outreach, and impact
Zeller, Manfred (contributor); Meyer, Richard L. (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
The initial success of microfinance programs in the 1970s led pioneers to think that many essential problems of the poor might be resolved by access to credit alone -- the ability to acquire assets, to start businesses, to finance emergency needs and to insure against illness and disaster. Part...
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Famine in Africa: Causes, responses, and prevention
von Braun, Joachim (contributor); Teklu, Tesfaye (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
€”extreme poverty, armed conflict, economic and political turmoil, and climate shocks—are now most prevalent in Africa. Researchers … famine context. Broadening current theories and models of development for conquering famine, Famine in Africa grounds its … results of field work and other research from numerous parts of Africa, with a particular focus on Botswana, Ethiopia, Niger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850590
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Land tenure and natural resource management: A comparative study of agrarian communities in Asia and Africa
Otsuka, Keijiro (contributor); Place, Frank (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
have experienced the reduction of farm size and the decline of natural resources. Through a comparison of Asia and Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850591