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Future of Food : Maximizing Finance for Development in Agricultural Value Chains
Townsend, Robert - 2018
Current levels of investment in agricultural value chains are insufficient to achieve key development goals including ending poverty and hunger, boosting shared prosperity through more and better jobs, and better stewarding the world's natural resources by 2030. Crowding-in private investment to...
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Agricultural Market Insurance Development : Policy Note - Brazil
Arias, Diego - 2017
Over the last decades, the government of Brazil has developed a risk management strategy with the goal of reducing the volatility of cash flow in the agricultural sector and the vulnerability of the less privileged stakeholders in the rural areas (that is, family farmers). Setting up a...
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What Explains Agricultural Price Movements?
Baffes, John - 2016
After 2005, commodity prices experienced their longest and broadest boom since World War II. Agricultural prices have now come down considerably since their 2011 peak, but are still 40 percent higher in real terms than their 2000 lows. This paper briefly addresses the main arguments on the...
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General Equilibrium Effects of Price Distortions on Global Markets, Farm Incomes and Welfare
Valenzuela, Ernesto - 2008
Earnings from farming in many developing countries have been depressed by a pro-urban bias in own-country policies as well as by governments of richer countries favoring their farmers with import barriers and subsidies. Both sets of policies, which reduce national and global economic welfare and...
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Global Distortions to Key Agricultural Commodity Markets
Anderson, Kym - 2009
The regional books that provided detailed estimates of distortion in developing economies are all country focused. While they include commodity details for their particular country, they are not able to provide an overview for developing countries or high-income countries as a group, or for the...
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Agricultural Price Distortions, Poverty, and Inequality in the Philippines
Cororaton, Caesar B. - 2009
This paper analyzes the poverty and inequality implications of removing agricultural and non-agricultural price distortions in the domestic market of the Philippines and abroad. Liberalization in the rest of the world is poverty and inequality reducing, whereas full domestic liberalization...
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Price Volatility in Food and Agricultural Markets : Policy Responses
FAO - 2011
The approach taken in this report reflects the view of the collaborating international organizations that price volatility and its effects on food security is a complex issue with many dimensions, agricultural and non-agricultural, short and long-term, with highly differentiated impacts on...
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Are microcredit participants in Bangladesh trapped in poverty and debt?
Khandker, Shahidur R.; Samad, Hussain A. - 2013
This paper addresses whether microcredit participants in Bangladesh are trapped in poverty and debt, as many critics …
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The Path to Universal Health Coverage in Bangladesh : Bridging the Gap of Human Resources for Health
El-Saharty, Sameh - 2015
Bangladesh is committed to achieving universal health coverage (UHC) by 2032; to this end, the government of Bangladesh … availability. Despite Bangladesh's impressive strides in improving its economic and social development outcomes, the government … the limited fiscal space for implementing UHC in Bangladesh, particularly given low public spending for health and high …
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Voices to Choices : Bangladesh's Journey in Women's Economic Empowerment
Solotaroff, Jennifer L. - 2009
Women have experienced significant changes in various spheres of their lives during the last decades as Bangladesh made … themselves. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the economic developments in gender equality in Bangladesh. Through …, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), BangladeshThe women's story is central to Bangladesh's economic and social transformation …
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