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Agricultural research, livelihoods, and poverty: Studies of economic and social impacts in six countries
Adato, Michelle (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Those who study global poverty and ways to reduce it face a perennial set of questions: Do advances in knowledge, research, and technology make a real difference in the lives of poor people? What effect does research have on the poor? Who benefits? The contributors to Agricultural Research,...
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The quiet revolution in staple food value chains: Enter the dragon, the elephant, and the tiger
Reardon, Thomas (contributor); Chen, Kevin Z. (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
requires urgent actions to improve the productivity and climate resilience of agriculture and to upgrade the food value chains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132827
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Agriculture, trade and regionalism in South Asia:
DeRosa, Dean A.; Govindan, Kumaresan - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1995
) Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka have taken steps toward forming a regional free trade area …
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Repayment performance in group-based credit programs in Bangladesh
Sharma, Manohar; Zeller, Manfred - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1996
This paper analyzes the repayment rates of credit groups belonging to three group-based credit programs in Bangladesh …: the Association for Social Advancement (ASA), the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), and the Rangpur Dinajpur …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037778
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Implications of quality deterioration for public foodgrain stock management and consumers in Bangladesh
Dorosh, Paul A.; Farid, Naser - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2003
In the late 1990s, government policy in Bangladesh shifted in favor of increased public foodgrain stocks, setting … stock management in Bangladesh: the economic costs of stock quality deterioration in storage, including the implicit costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038179
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Modeling the effects of trade on women at work and at home
Fontana, Marzia - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2003
This working paper documents the construction of a 1993-94 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Bangladesh. The SAM …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038194
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Macro policies and the food sector in Bangladesh
Fontana, Marzia; Wobst, Peter; Dorosh, Paul A. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001
Trade liberalization in the early 1990s in Bangladesh has enabled the private sector to respond with market … revenues suggest that the extent of disincentives to agriculture will depend on whether or not the resulting real exchange rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038241
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Food policy and market reform in Viet Nam and Bangladesh: essay in Annual Report
Ahmed, Raisuddin; Goletti, Francesco - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1998
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Factors affecting repayment rates in group-based lending
Sharma, Manohar; Zeller, Manfred - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2000
financial transactions. The authors cite successful endeavors including Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, SANSA in Sri Lanka and … Credit Solidaire in Burkina Faso and, in Thailand, the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives, and examine the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996851
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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