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Sarpanch raj: is the President all powerful?
Palaniswamy, Nethra - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
disadvantaged Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs), and women face considerable difficulties when they are situated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008505339
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008476184
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010736383
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008862337
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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
promoted as a strategy to increase dietary intakes of vitamin A among young children and adult women in Uganda. As an … and nonland assets controlled by women, affect adoption and diffusion decisions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886776
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Managing risk with insurance and savings: Experimental evidence for male and female farm managers in West Africa:
Delavallade, Clara; Dizon, Felipe; Hill, Ruth Vargas; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015
whether benefits affect men and women equally. Using a randomized field experiment in Senegal and Burkina Faso, we compare … hypothesize that this difference results from the fact that although men and women are equally exposed to yield risk, women face … essence, the basis risk associated with agricultural insurance products is higher for women. Insurance was more effective than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272207
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Is reliable water access the solution to undernutrition? A review of the potential of irrigation to solve nutrition and gender gaps in Africa South of the Sahara:
Domènech, Laia - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015
Interventions aimed at increasing water availability for livelihood and domestic activities have great potential to improve various determinants of undernutrition, such as the quantity and diversity of foods consumed within the household, income generation, and women’s empowerment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272211
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Gender, assets, and agricultural development: Lessons from eight projects:
Johnson, Nancy L.; Kovarik, Chiara; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015
and development implementers could improve outcomes for women in future projects. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272212
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Understanding men’s and women’s access to and control of assets and the implications for agricultural development projects: A case study in rice-farming households in eastern U...
Paris, Thelma; Pede, Valerien; Luis, Joyce; Sharma, Raman; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015
This research was undertaken to understand gender issues on the distribution of, access to, and control over major assets of rice-farming households as well as the effects of technologies promoted by an Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D) project in selected villages in eastern Uttar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272214