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An assessment of IFPRI's work in Ethiopia 1995-2010: Ideology, influence, and idiosyncrasy
Renkow, Mitch; Slade, Roger - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
This study provides an independent external assessment of the impact of IFPRI’s work in Ethiopia during 1995–2010. From 1995 to 2004, nearly all of IFPRI’s Ethiopia work was undertaken by Washington-based research teams working on specific themes under various “global...
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The role of agriculture in the fast-growing Rwandan economy: Assessing growth alternatives:
Diao, Xinshen; Bahiigwa, Godfrey; Pradesha, Angga - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
change. The analysis shows that with the current investment pattern, rapid growth is possible but structural transformation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886779
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Inputs, productivity, and agricultural growth in Africa South of the Sahara:
Nin-Pratt, Alejandro - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015
productivity growth in SSA continues to lag behind every other region of the world, growing at rates that are roughly half of the … average rate of developing countries. Previous studies concluded that SSA should increase investment in agricultural research … support services for raising agricultural productivity. This study introduces a new dimension to the puzzle of agricultural …
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Do health investments improve agricultural productivity?
McNamara, Paul E.; Ulimwengu, John M.; Leonard, Kenneth L. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
Determining the causality between health measures and both income and labor productivity remains an ongoing challenge … the link between health investments and agricultural productivity. The evidence from some micro-level studies suggests … that inexpensive health interventions can have a very large impact on labor productivity. The macro-level evidence at the …
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Improved dairy cows in Uganda: Pathways to poverty alleviation and improved child nutrition:
Kabunga, Nassul S. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
milk productivity, milk commercialization, and food expenditure. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010755485
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Public Expenditures in Agriculture in Mozambique:: What Investments are Required for Technical Change, and What Drives Investment Decisions?
Mogues, Tewodaj; Benin, Samuel; Woldeyohannes, Sileshi - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
This paper undertakes a two-pronged investigation of agricultural public investments in Mozambique. Firstly, it estimates the public resources required in the agricultural sector—both in magnitude and in type or composition—in order for the country to sustainably meet its own...
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Public spending at the district level in Ghana:
Osei-Akoto, Isaac; Osei, Robert Darko; Quarmine, William; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007
Public spending may influence poverty alleviation objectives at several levels including overall spending plans of government (aggregate fiscal policy), policy decisions funded in the budget and the flow of budgeted resources to Ministries, Department and Agencies (MDAs); frontline service...
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Agricultural investment for growth and poverty reduction in Nigeria:
Alpuerto, Vida; Diao, Xinshen; Salau, Sheu; Nwafor, Manson - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
This study assesses public investment required for agricultural growth and poverty reduction in Nigeria. Using time … series data for public spending and agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) growth, the econometrically estimated … growth for poverty reduction (Diao et al. 2009), required agricultural investment would have to grow at 23.8 percent annually …
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Welfare and poverty impacts of India’s national rural employment guarantee scheme: Evidence from Andhra Pradesh:
Deininger, Klaus; Liu, Yanyan - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is one of the largest public works programs globally. Understanding the impacts of NREGS and the pathway through which its impacts are realized thus has important policy implications. We use a three-round 4,000-household panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132747
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Accelerated growth and structural transformation: Assessing Ghana’s options to reach middle-income status
Breisinger, Clemens; Diao, Xinshen; Thurlow, James; Yu, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007
Ghana has made considerable progress over the last 20 years in sustaining economic growth and reducing poverty. The Government of Ghana has declared its new development goal of reaching middle-income status by 2015. Achieving this goal will require Ghana to double its per capita income over the...
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