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Papua New Guinea Agri-Food Trade Trends : Dietary Change and Obesity
Schmidt, Emily; Fang, Peixun - 2021
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has presented a unique challenge to governments across the globe, reinforcing the need to improve understanding of domestic and international trade trends to provide more informed options for policy response. During the last several months, IFPRI has been...
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Poverty Prevalence and Correlates of Household Expenditure in Four Lowland Areas of Rural Papua New Guinea
Schmidt, Emily - 2020
that approximately 80 percent of the population in PNG is dependent on rain-fed, subsistence agriculture, rural data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012847676
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Papua New Guinea Survey Report : Rural Household Survey on Food Systems
Schmidt, Emily; Gilbert, Rachel; Holtemeyer, Brian; … - 2019
Between May and July 2018, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) implemented a household-level survey in four areas of PNG: The Autonomous Region of Bougainville (South Bougainville near Buin), Madang (Middle Ramu near Kwanga Station), East Sepik (near Maprik) and West Sepik...
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How Do Perceptions of Relative Poverty Affect Women’s Empowerment? Evidence From Papua New Guinea
Kosec, Katrina; Hyunjung Mo, Cecilia; Schmidt, Emily; … - 2020
How do perceptions of one’s relative economic status affect gender attitudes, including support for women’s economic participation and involvement in decision-making? We conducted a 2018 survey experiment with female and male adults in approximately 1,000 households in Papua New Guinea....
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Structural Change in Argentina, 1935-60 : The Role of Import Substitution and Factor Endowments
Debowicz, Dario - 2013
relative decline of agriculture was due to the policies of import-substituting industrialization (ISI). This was also the …. We find that the declining land-labor ratio was more important than ISI in explaining relative stagnation in agriculture … agriculture …
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An Overview of Chinese Agricultural and Rural Engagement in Tanzania
Bräutigam, Deborah - 2013
clearer picture of Chinese activities in agriculture is important as a foundation for Africans and their development partners … to more fruitfully engage with an increasingly important actor. Chinese engagement in agriculture and rural development …
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The Road to Specialization in Agricultural Production : Evidence from Rural China
Qin, Yu - 2013
Because many rural poor live in areas far away from markets, we investigate whether better road access could help improve their livelihood and reduce rural poverty. We use three waves of a primary panel survey at the household level conducted in 18 remote natural villages in China to study how...
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Women's Empowerment in Agriculture and Dietary Quality Across the Life Course : Evidence from Bangladesh
Sraboni, Esha - 2018
's empowerment in agriculture and indicators of individual dietary quality. Our findings suggest that women's empowerment is …
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Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture and Nutritional Outcomes : Evidence From Six Countries in Africa and Asia
Quisumbing, Agnes - 2020
's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), a recent internationally-validated measure based on interviews of women and men within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834108
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WTO Dispute Settlement Cases Involving the Agreement on Agriculture, 1995–2019
Glauber, Joseph W. - 2020
A landmark achievement of the Uruguay Round, and notably, the Agreement on Agriculture, was the full inclusion of … agriculture in multilateral rules and disciplines. Since the birth of World Trade Organization (WTO), a significant number of … member countries have used the dispute settlement mechanism (DSM) for resolving the disputes in agriculture. The DSM has …
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