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Small-Scale Farming and Food Security : The Enabling Role of Cash Transfers in South Africa's Former Homelands

von Fintel, Dieter - 2016

Cash transfers successfully alleviate poverty in many developing countries. South Africa is a case in point, implementing one of the largest unconditional cash transfer programmes internationally, and with substantial benefits to household well-being along multiple dimensions. Yet, grants...

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Food for Fuel : The Effect of the US Biofuel Mandate on Poverty in India

Chakravorty, Ujjayant - 2019

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 … incomes, mainly because most of them are employed in agriculture. Urban households also bear the higher cost of food, but do …

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Can Crop Purchase Programs Reduce Poverty and Improve Welfare in Rural Communities? Evidence from the Food Reserve Agency in Zambia

Fung, Winnie - 2015

The last decade has seen a resurgence of parastatal crop marketing institutions in sub-Saharan Africa, many of which cite improving food security and incomes as key goals. However, there is limited empirical evidence on the welfare effects of these programs. This article considers one such...

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Household Cooking Fuel Choice in India, 2004-2012 : A Panel Multinomial Analysis

Kuo, Ying-Min - 2019

We use two waves of nationally representative India Human Development Survey to examine factors driving the cooking … fuel choice in urban and rural India, separately. We utilize a random effects multinomial logit model that controls for …

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The Role of Demographics in Precipitating Crises in Financial Institutions

Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009

There are significant effects of changing demographics on economic indicators: growth in GDP especially, but also the current account balance and gross capital formation. The 15-24 age group appears to be one of the key age groups in these effects, with increases in that age group exerting...

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Agricultural Credits and Agricultural Productivity : Cross-Country Evidence

Seven, Unal - 2020

We present cross-country evidence suggesting that agricultural credits have a positive impact on agricultural productivity. In particular, we find that doubling agricultural credits generates around 4-5 percent increase in agricultural productivity. We use two different agricultural production...

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Forced Off Farm? Labor Allocation Response to Land Requisition in Rural China

Mu, Ren - 2017

Land requisition has been an important process by which Chinese local governments promote urbanization and generate revenue. This study investigates the impacts of land requisition on farmers' decisions of labor allocation between agricultural and non-agricultural sectors. We argue that,...

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Do Walmart Supercenters Improve Food Security?

Courtemanche, Charles - 2018

This paper examines the effect of Walmart Supercenters, which lower food prices and expand food availability, on household and child food insecurity. Our food insecurity-related outcomes come from the 2001-2012 waves of the December Current Population Study Food Security Supplement. Using narrow...

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Agricultural Extension and Technology Adoption for Food Security : Evidence from Uganda

Pan, Yao - 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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Anemia, Diet, and Cognitive Development : Impact of Health Information on Diet Quality and Child Nutrition in Rural India

Krämer, Marion; Kumar, Santosh; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2021

outcomes of children in rural India. Using experimental data and regression discontinuity design that exploits the exogenous …

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