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Race, equity, and public schools in post-apartheid South Africa
Yamauchi, Futoshi - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2004
"This paper uses recently available South African school census data from 1996 and 2000 to assess variations in educational quality across former population groups of public schools and dynamic changes in post-apartheid South Africa. The author argues that unless the government actively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997111
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Race, equity, and public schools in post-apartheid South Africa
Yamauchi, Futoshi - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2004
"This paper examines dynamic changes in educational quality and equity differences in the public school system between Black and other racial groups in post-apartheid South Africa, using the ratio of learners to educators in each school, available from the School Register of Needs, 1996 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997245
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An experimental inquiry into the effect of yardstick competition on corruption:
Viceisza, Angelino - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"This study reports theory-testing laboratory experiments on the effect of yardstick competition on corruption. The … results reveal that on the incumbent's side, yardstick competition acts as a corruption-taming mechanism only if the incumbent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037981
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Neopatrimonialism and agricultural protection: The case of maize in Malawi:
Phiri, Horace; Edris, Abdi Khalil - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
€“ systematic clientelism, a power concentration index, and control of corruption. All were negatively related to the level of …-induced disincentives to agricultural production due to worsening corruption, concentration of political power, and a crowding out of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132590
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The wealth and gender distribution of rural services in Ethiopia: A public expenditure benefit Incidence Analysis
Mogues, Tewodaj; Petracco, Carly; Randriamamonjy, Josee - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850556
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The Economic Consequences of Excess Men: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan:
Chang, Simon; Zhang, Xiaobo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
As sex ratio imbalances have become a problem in an increasing number of countries, it is important to understand their consequences. With the defeat of the Kuomintang Party in China, more than one million soldiers and civilians, mainly young males, retreated to Taiwan in the late 1940s....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850574
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A literature review of the gender-differentiated impacts of climate change on women's and men's assets and well-being in developing countries:
Goh, Amelia H. X. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850592
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Beyond the bari: Gender, groups, and social relations in rural Bangladesh
Quisumbing, Agnes R. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
This paper uses a longitudinal data set from rural Bangladesh to analyze the factors that affect men's and women's ability to participate in groups and to engage in relationships with powerful and influential people. Unlike studies from other countries that find group membership to be positively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850593
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The impact of shocks on gender-differentiated asset dynamics in Bangladesh:
Rakib, Muntaha; Matz, Julia Anna - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
Assets are an important means of coping with adverse events in developing countries but the role of gendered ownership is not yet fully understood. This paper investigates changes in assets owned by the household head, his spouse, or jointly by both of them in response to shocks in rural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886775
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Bargaining power and biofortification: The role of gender in adoption of orange sweet potato in Uganda:
Gilligan, Daniel O.; Kumar, Neha; McNiven, Scott; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
We examine the role of gender in adoption and diffusion of orange sweet potato, a biofortified staple food crop being … agricultural intervention with nutrition objectives, intrahousehold gender dynamics regarding decisions about crop choice and child … exchange, suggesting again that gender dimensions of networks may be important to diffusion of the crop. We use data from an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886776