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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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Promoting a strong seed sector in Sub-Saharan Africa:
Minot, Nicholas - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"Given that Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest incidence of poverty and malnutrition in the world, the stagnation in per capita grain production there is worrisome. Since 1970, per capita grain production in Sub-Saharan Africa has declined more than 10 percent. Increasing the productivity of...
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Scaling up in agriculture, rural development, and nutrition: Scaling up agricultural value chains for pro-poor development:
Hartmann, Arntraud - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
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Public sector agricultural research priorities for sustainable food security: Perspectives from plausible scenarios:
Nelson, Gerald C.; van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
dimensions—population growth, constrained natural resources, and climate change. Investments in agricultural productivity are …
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Toward an integrated approach for addressing malnutrition in Zambia: a literature review and institutional analysis:
Harris, Jody; Drimie, Scott - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
Due to the predominance of direct, specific interventions in nutrition for development, the health sector tends to own nutrition, with interventions customarily implemented through health programs. The premise that the agriculture sector should also be a vehicle for improved nutrition is...
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Population density, migration, and the returns to human capital and land: Highlights from Indonesia
Liu, Yanyan; Yamauchi, Futoshi - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
Rapid population growth in many developing countries has raised concerns regarding food security and household welfare …. To understand the consequences of population growth on in the general equilibrium setting, we examine the dynamics of … highlight the importance of migration to urban sectors in the analysis. Empirical results show that human capital in the …
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Emerging policies and partnerships under CAADP: Implications for long-term growth, food security, and poverty reduction
Badiane, Ousmane; Odjo, Sunday; Ulimwengu, John - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
as a continent-wide framework to facilitate faster agricultural growth and progress toward poverty reduction and food and … growth and poverty-reduction outcomes. …
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Climate change and floods in Yemen: Impacts on food security and options for adaptation
Wiebelt, Manfred; Breisinger, Clemens; Ecker, Olivier; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
-change-induced higher global prices for food will lower Yemen's overall GDP growth, raise agricultural GDP, decrease real household incomes …
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Foreign inflows and growth challenges for African countries
Diao, Xinshen; Breisinger, Clemens - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
support the development of manufacturing or export-oriented service sectors. Yet the recent growth experience of many African … economic growth and structural change by developing a multisector intertemporal general equilibrium model. We find that the … substantial short-run growth shock consistent with the Dutch disease theory. Opposed short-run effects on the growth of the …
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Food security and economic development in the Middle East and North Africa
Breisinger, Clemens; van Rheenen, Teunis; Ringler, Claudia - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
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