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Improving donor support for urban poverty reduction
Banks, Nicola - 2011
within their priorities and funding patterns. -- urban poverty ; foreign aid ; Bangladesh ; South Asia …
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Transfers for extreme poverty reduction : implications for patron-client relationships in the context of Bangladesh's agricultural reformation
Scott, Lucy - 2014
"agricultural reformation" of rural Bangladesh, whereby the growth of the non-farm economy and increased connectivity of rural areas … the findings of primary fieldwork on the char islands of north-west Bangladesh which examined the processes resulting from … in rural Bangladesh. Because of this, the activities of the CLP have the potential to be "transformative …
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Recovery with distress : unpacking COVID-19 impact on livelihoods and poverty in Bangladesh
Rahman, Hussain Zillur; Rahman, Atiya; Faruk, Md. Saiful; … - 2022
Bangladesh, their coping strategies, and the extent to which policy support materialzed. While the poor as a whole demonstrated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012816294
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Climate change and agricultural productivity in Myanmar : application of a new computable general equilibrium (CGE) model
Jensen, Henning Tarp; Keogh-Brown, Marcus; Tarp, Finn - 2021
Myanmar is facing climate change (CC) induced changes to the productivity of their critically important rice sector over the coming century. Moreover, the recent five-year Myanmarese Agriculture Development Strategy (ADS) sets out a vision of achieving an '…inclusive, competitive, food and...
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Gender differences in child investment behaviour among agricultural households : evidence from the Lesotho Child Grants Programme
Sebastian, Ashwini; De la O Campos, Ana Paula; Daidone, … - 2016
We examine the impacts of an unconditional cash transfer in Lesotho using an experimental impact evaluation design. We find that the cash transfer led to different outcomes for girls and boys, overall favouring secondary school-aged girls. Girls in this age group were less likely to miss school,...
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Long-run rural livelihood diversification in Kagera, Tanzania
Dimova, Ralitza; Halvorsen, Sandra Kristine; … - 2021
What drives livelihood diversification among predominantly rural households in developing countries and how can welfare-enhancing patterns be established and sustained in the long run? A large literature has focused on whether income diversification is a means of survival or a means of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012423035
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Agricultural risks, the COVID-19 pandemic, and farm household welfare and diversification strategies in Africa
Iddrisu, Abdul Malik; Karakara, Alhassan Abdul-Wakeel; … - 2022
Agricultural activities in many African countries are bedevilled by a range of risk factors. Using micro-level household datasets from a range of countries in Africa, we examine the drivers of agricultural risks, while exploring the role of context as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic...
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Comparing the development of agricultural technology and information technology in rural Vietnam
Kaila, Heidi - 2015
This paper presents a descriptive analysis on the ownership of different types of technology - both agricultural machinery and information technology - within households in rural areas of Vietnam. We find that there has been little development in the ownership of agricultural machinery, but a...
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Diffusion of agricultural innovations in Guinea-Bissau : from learning to doing
Caeiro, Rute Martins - 2022
This paper analyses the pathways of technology diffusion through social networks, following the experimental introduction of new technologies in Guinea-Bissau. In the context of an agricultural extension project, we document both the direct effects of this intervention and subsequent diffusion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012816413
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Helping poor farmers to help themselves : evidence from a group-based aid project in Mozambique
Nyyssölä, Milla; Pirttilä, Jukka; Sandström, Susanna - 2012
This paper evaluates the impact of an integrated rural development programme on farming techniques and food security in the Gaza area of rural Mozambique. We examine the impact of a group-based approach, in a country with few impact evaluations of technology adoption in farming. Using...
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