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Food aid and violent conflict : a review of literature
Koppenberg, Maximilian; Mishra, Ashok K.; Hirsch, Stefan - 2023
We decompose the relationship between food aid and conflict into the channels through which food aid can affect conflict. We address questions of methodological choice and estimation techniques for empirical studies. Our review of the empirical evidence on the effect of food aid on conflict...
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Trade liberalization, economic activity, and political violence in the Global South : evidence from PTAs
Amodio, Francesco; Baccini, Leonardo; Chiovelli, Giorgio; … - 2023
This paper investigates the impact of agricultural trade liberalization on economic activity and political violence in … emerging countries. We use data on all Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) signed between 25 low- and middle-income countries … and their high-income trade partners between 1995 and 2013. We exploit the implied reduction in agricultural tariffs over …
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Biofuel subsidies : an open-economy analysis
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Wall, … - 2009
subsidy spurs global demand for food and confers a terms-of-trade benefit to the food-exporting nation. This might encourage … subsidization. Terms-of-trade effects wash out between trading nations; hence, any policy intervention by the two trading nations … that raises crude use must be jointly suboptimal. -- Optimal biofuel subsidy ; Pigouvian tax ; terms-of-trade ; pollution …
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Food for fuel : the effect of the US biofuel mandate on poverty in India
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Hélène; Ural … - 2018
RFS on world food prices and their impact on household level consumption and wage incomes in India. We first develop a …, sugar and meat and dairy, which together provide almost 70% of Indian food calories. Our model predicts that world prices …
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The agricultural origins of time preference
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - 2014
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403576
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Financial literacy and food security in extremely vulnerable households
Millimet, Daniel L.; McDonough, Ian K.; Fomby, Thomas B. - 2015
Food insecurity is one of the most, if not the most, significant, nutrition-related public health issue confronted in the US. Unfortunately, we know very little about the determinants of food security except that it is not synonymous with poverty. Many households above the poverty line are food...
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Agricultural extension and technology adoption for food security : evidence from Uganda
Pan, Yao; Smith, Stephen C.; Sulaiman, Munshi - 2015
This paper evaluates causal impacts of a large-scale agricultural extension program for smallholder women farmers on food security in Uganda through a regression discontinuity design that exploits an arbitrary distance-to-branch threshold for village program eligibility. We find eligible farmers...
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Evaluating the long-run impact of an innovative anti-poverty program : evidence using household panel data
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Ara, Jinnat - 2016
Using a four-round panel data set from the first phase of the Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction – Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR – TUP) programme of BRAC, we investigate whether a one-off transfer of livestock assets improves well-being of the very poor women in Bangladesh....
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Civil war, famine and the persistence of human capital: evidence from Tajikistan
Grogan, Louise Anne - 2021
The dissolution of the Soviet Union and 1992-96 Tajik civil war resulted in huge human and economic losses. Nevertheless, contemporary data suggest the persistence of investments in human capital in the region most affected by famine and least favoured since the cessation of hostilities,...
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Improving women's mental health during a pandemic
O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Caro, Luis Pinedo - 2021
In low-income settings, women are vulnerable to the psychological distress caused by the social and economic impact of large-scale shocks (e.g., pandemics, natural disasters, political). This paper evaluates a randomized over-the-phone counseling intervention aimed at mitigating the mental...
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