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Recall length and measurement error in agricultural surveys
Wollburg, Philip; Tiberti, Marco; Zezza, Alberto - 2020
. Using data from the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture in Malawi and Tanzania …
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The nutrition sensitivity of food and agriculture in South Asia
Dizon, Felipe; Josephson, Anna; Raju, Dhushyanth - 2019
Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008111
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Generating gridded agricultural gross domestic product for Brazil : a comparison of methodologies
Thomas, Timothy S.; You, Liangzhi; Wood-Sichra, Ulrike; … - 2019
This paper examines two new methods to generate gridded agricultural Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and compares the results with a traditional method. In the case of Brazil, these two new methods of spatial disaggregation and cross-entropy outperform the prediction of agricultural GDP from the...
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The state of land use in Northern Nigeria : a landsat-based mapping framework
Sedano, Fernando; Molini, Vasco; Azad, M Abul Kalam - 2020
thematic detail, resulting in a more precise characterization of agriculture in the region. The map reveals that agriculture is … reported national average for Nigeria (38.4 percent). Irrigated agriculture covers nearly 2.2 percent of the total area …, reaching nearly 20 percent of the cultivated land when traditional floodplain agriculture systems are included, which is above …
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The mystery of the vanishing benefits : Ms Speedy Analyst's introduction to evaluation
Ravallion, Martin - 1999
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Measuring the unmeasured : combining technology and behavioral insights to improve measurement of business outcomes
Anderson, Stephen J.; Lazicky, Christy; Zia, Bilal - 2019
Business survey outcomes for micro and small firms are notoriously noisy, with multiple sources of measurement and recall error. This paper introduces a new survey methodology that combines automatic consistency checks of electronic data collection with triangulation and dynamic adjustment to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022347
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Estimating poverty rates in target populations : an assessment of the simple poverty scorecard and alternative approaches
Diamond, Alexis; Gill, Michael; Rebolledo Dellepiane, Miguel - 2016
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Program evaluation and spillover effects
Angelucci, Manuela; Di Maro, Vincenzo - 2015
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The need for multiple types of information to inform climate change assessment
Toman, Michael A. - 2014
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Impacts of PROSPERA on enrollment, school trajectories, and learning
Behrman, Jere R.; Parker, Susan; Todd, Petra - 2019
Many studies have demonstrated that Mexico's conditional cash transfer program, PROSPERA, has substantial effects on educational attainment. Nevertheless, little evidence exists on whether increases in time spent in school have led to higher learning in the context of the poor areas where...
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