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Policy process and food price crisis : a framework for analysis and lessons from country studies

Babu, Suresh Chandra - 2013

During the recent food crisis, developing countries responded with a wide variety of policy responses to protect their population. Understanding the policy-making process in developing countries is important to know why such policy responses are made and how various actors and players shape up...

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Aid and development in Taiwan, South Korea, and South Vietnam

Gray, Kevin J. - 2013

The aim of this paper is to explain the divergent developmental outcomes between South Korea, Taiwan, and South Vietnam. Whilst US aid has correctly been cited as key factor in explaining the rapid post-war development of South Korea and Taiwan, the ultimate failure to establish strong...

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Long-term effects of land reform on human capital accumulation : evidence from West Bengal

Deininger, Klaus W.; Jin, Songqing; Yadav, Vandana - 2011

We use data on inter-generational gains in educational attainment by some 500,000 individuals in 200 West Bengal villages to explore gender-differentiated impacts of land reform on human capital accumulation at the individual level. While there are significant gains (of about 0.3 years for...

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Can a populist political party bear the risk of granting complete property rights? : electoral outcomes of Mexico’s second land reform

De Janvry, Alain; González-Navarro, Marco; Sadoulet, … - 2011

The Mexican land reform, one of the most sweeping in the world, proceeded in two steps: it granted peasants highly incomplete property rights on more than half of the Mexican territory starting in 1914, creating strong economic and political dependence for beneficiaries on the ruling political...

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Poverty and land distribution : evidence from a natural experiment

Keswell, Malcolm; Carter, Michael R. - 2011

While land reforms have long been motivated as a potential policy lever of rural growth and development, there is remarkably little evidence of the direct impacts of such reforms. In an effort to fill this lacunae, this paper examines South Africa's Land Redistribution for Agricultural...

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PROCEDE : a failed programme to reduce poverty and inequalities in Mexico

De Ita, Ana - 2022

This paper analyses the land tenure reform that took place in Mexico in 1992 and its PROCEDE programme (Ejido Rights Certification Programme). It considers the counter-agrarian reform's objectives, the context in which it was proposed, and the different actors involved. It delves into the main...

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Evolution of land distribution in West Bengal 1967-2004 : role of land reform

Bardhan, Pranab K.; Lucab, Michael; Mookherjeeb, Dilip; … - 2011

This paper uses data from a household survey to estimate changes in land distribution in rural West Bengal between 1967-2004 and decompose these into contributions of different factors. There was a substantial drop in land per household and land per capita, while within-village inequality rose....

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The political economy of food price policy : the case of Kenya

Nzuma, Jonathan Makau - 2013

This paper evaluates Kenya's food price crisis over 2002 - 11 using a political economy approach. Kenya's food prices … about 30 per cent of the changes in world market prices are transmitted to domestic markets in Kenya. The study finds a … relatively slow speed of adjustment of domestic food prices in Kenya of between three to five months. In response, the government …

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Using evidence and operational responses to accelerate gender equality in Kenya

Torkelsson, Åsa - 2014

Government of Kenya (GoK) integrated gender in a pronounced way in the design and implementation of the Kenya Agricultural …

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Targeting social transfer programmes : comparing design and implementation errors across alternative mechanisms

Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel; Hurrell, Alex; Devereux, Stephen - 2014

implementers. An innovative cash transfer programme in northern Kenya trialled three targeting mechanisms to learn lessons about … which approach is most effective at minimizing inclusion and exclusion errors. We conclude that community-based targeting is …

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