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Poverty, inequality, and agriculture in the EU
Azevedo, João Pedro; Brink, Rogerius Johannes Eugenius … - 2018
crisis of 2008. This paper assesses the role of agriculture and the Common Agricultural Program in achieving this. The paper … sheds light on the relationship between poverty and agriculture as part of the process of structural transformation. It … as evaluating the role of agriculture as a driver of shared prosperity. The analysis performed throughout the paper uses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002270
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Cross-region transfers in a monetary union : evidence from the US and some implications
Pennings, Steven - 2020
US federal transfers to individuals are large, countercyclical, vary geographically, and are often credited for helping stabilize regional economies. This paper estimates the short-run effects of these transfers using plausibly exogenous regional variation in temporary stimulus packages and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241154
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Where they live : district-level measures of poverty, average consumption, and the middle class in Central Asia
Seitz, William - 2019
Rapid economic growth over the past two decades lifted millions of people out of poverty in Central Asia. But the uneven spread of prosperity left many communities struggling to catch up. To support lagging regions within countries, each of the region's five national governments has made...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059249
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228617
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114017
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Regional development overview : challenges, adopted strategies, and new initiatives
Jackson, Randall W.; Hewings, Geoffrey; Rey, Serge; … - 2019
Despite the increasing attention in recent years to the spatial dimensions of economic development, consideration of the importance of space and the recognition that macro, aspatial perspectives can prove to be misleading are not new. Around the world, much of the disappointment with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012167859
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Leveraging Urbanization to Promote a New Growth Model While Reducing Territorial Disparities in Morocco : Urban and Regional Development Policy Note
Lall, Somik - 2019
Today 60 percent of Moroccans reside in urban areas, as opposed to 35 percent in 1970. By 2050, nearly three-quarters of the country's population will be living in cities. Along with the concentration of people, urbanization will lead to the increasing concentration of economic activities in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644214
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The Atlas of Rural Marginalized Areas and of Local Human Development in Romania
Tesliuc, Emil - 2016
Romania aims to be a country in which all citizens are provided with an equal opportunity toparticipate in society, where their basic needs are met and their differences respected, and whereall people feel valued and can live in dignity.Our society is still far from this ideal. One in every five...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644486
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Evaluation of the Portfolio of Regional Development Investment Projects
World Bank Group - 2015
In the context of Romania's push toward sustainable and inclusive development, the government has asked the World Bank to support the harmonization of public investments financed by the European Union and the state budget. The current report describes the national program for local development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644603