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Trade liberalization, poverty, and food security in India:
Panda, Manoj; Ganesh-Kumar, A. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008476189
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Access, adoption, and diffusion
Kumar, Neha; Quisumbing, Agnes R. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
This paper assesses long-term impacts of vegetable and polyculture fish production technologies on a variety of measures of household and individual well-being in Bangladesh. In 1996–1997, households were surveyed in three sites where nongovernmental organizations and extension programs were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008486406
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Patterns and trends of child and maternal nutrition inequalities in Nigeria
Omilola, Babatunde - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
Despite the fact that nonincome dimensions of well-being such as nutrition and health are now placed on the global … development agenda, substantial gaps remain in our knowledge about patterns and trends in nutrition inequalities in many …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008505315
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Food and nutrition emergencies in East Africa: Political, economic and environmental associations
Oniang'o, Ruth - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008459989
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What determines adult cognitive skills?: Impacts of preschooling, schooling, and post-schooling experiences in Guatemala
Behrman, Jere R.; Hoddinott, John; Maluccio, John A.; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
primarily by schooling, and (2) schooling is statistically predetermined or exogenous. This study uses longitudinal data … collected in Guatemala over 35 years to investigate production functions for adult cognitive skills—that is, reading …-comprehension skills and nonverbal cognitive skills—as being dependent on behaviorally determined preschooling, schooling, and post-schooling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038027
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Are returns to mothers' human capital realized in the next generation?: The impact of mothers' intellectual human capital and long-run nutritional status on children's human capita...
Behrman, Jere R.; Murphy, Alexis; Quisumbing, Agnes R.; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
maternal human capital (usually maternal schooling attainment) and children's human capital (usually children's schooling, but … impact than maternal schooling attainment on children's biological human capital; and (3) for some important indicators of … children's human capital, maternal biological capital has larger effect sizes than maternal intellectual capital (schooling and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038105