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This 2012 Global Food Policy Report is the second in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments and events. Initiated in response to resurgent interest in food security, the series offers a yearly overview of the food policy developments that have...
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among its individual members. They look at how these differences in land holdings and education affect what sons and … of labor-intensive agricultural technologies, to extend and strengthen school systems in rural areas, to promote … competition in off-farm labor markets, and to eliminate discrimination against women. The authors conclude that there is no …
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include (1) a greater dependence on cash income; (2) weaker informal safety nets; (3) greater labor force participation of …
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differently than men in an urban area. Livelihood strategies for both men and women are predominantly labor based and dependent on …
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, and Asia by synthesizing studies conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute over the past ten years …
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, evolution, and impact of the food for education (FFE) program in Bangladesh. It reviews the outputs from the IFPRI program and …
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"This paper uses panel data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Malawi to examine the impacts of disasters on dynamic human capital production. Our empirical results show that accumulation of biological human capital prior to a disaster helps children maintain investments during the post-disaster...
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transition to nonagricultural labor markets depend on the distance to economic centers and the household education level. In … and promotes labor transition to nonagricultural sectors. Education and local road quality are complementary, mutually … (road) development on household income growth and nonagricultural labor supply. The empirical results show that the impacts …
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"Most investigations into the importance and determinants of adult cognitive skills assume that (1) they are produced primarily by schooling, and (2) schooling is statistically predetermined or exogenous. This study uses longitudinal data collected in Guatemala over 35 years to investigate...
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