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Sarpanch raj: is the President all powerful?

Palaniswamy, Nethra - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010

The policy of mandated representation (reservation) for disadvantaged social groups in Indian village councils or Gram Panchayats has been the subject of numerous studies. The implicit, and often unstated, assumption that underlies most of these studies is that the president of the council is...

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Do external grants to district governments discourage own-revenue generation?: A look at local public finance dynamics in Ghana

Mogues, Tewodaj; Benin, Samuel; Cudjoe, Godsway - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

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Scaling up in agriculture, rural development, and nutrition: Addressing institutional challenges to large-scale implementation:

Kohl, Richard - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012

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In pursuit of votes: The capture of the allocation of local public goods by the central state in Ghana

Horowitz, Leah; Palaniswamy, Nethra - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010

Decentralization reforms have been the overwhelming response to failures in the targeting of public resources by the central state in developing countries. The policy debate on decentralization typically revolves around several a priori hypotheses on how the design of formal institutions of...

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Estimating the impact of access to infrastructure and extension services in rural Nepal:

Dillon, Andrew; Sharma, Manohar; Zhang, Xiaobo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011

access to public infrastructure and services to land value and a panel of household-level data on consumption, poverty, and … as further research into precisely how infrastructure and services affect rural households' welfare and how their …

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

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

. Overall, the studies find that investments in agricultural research, infrastructure, and human capital are beneficial in the …

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The rural-urban transformation in Ethiopia:

Dorosh, Paul A.; Schmidt, Emily - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010

s, though it still remains far below the sub-Saharan Africa average. Similarly, fixed telephone line infrastructure more …

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Paving the way for development?: The impact of transport infrastructure on agricultural production and poverty reduction in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Ulimwengu, John; Funes, Jose; Headey, Derek; You, Liangzhi - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

infrastructure investments would affect market access, and how market access would in turn affect agricultural production and … investment in ports in the DRC should be a priority in the infrastructure investment portfolio. …

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Reducing poverty and hunger in Asia:

Islam, Nurul ed. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008

Investment Priorities for Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Asia Shenggen Fan, Joanna Brzeska, and Ghada Shields

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Impacts of considering climate variability on investment decisions in Ethiopia:

Block, Paul J.; Strzepek, Kenneth; Rosegrant, Mark; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008

"Numerous studies indicate that agricultural production is sensitive to climate variability, and lack of infrastructure … indicates frequent droughts and floods, which can devastate agricultural production and existing infrastructure. Too much …

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