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Mobile phones and the internet have significantly affected practically all sectors of the economy, and agriculture is …
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. Using data from the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture in Malawi and Tanzania …
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Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia …
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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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This paper exploits a novel municipal-level data set to explore patterns of convergence in income and poverty in Mexico … evidence of income and poverty convergence at the municipal level. The findings suggest that these convergence processes stem … transfers to poor households, seem to have played an important role in driving these results by bolstering income growth among …
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structural route of the past, through manufacturing, to higher income, but with appropriate investments, they can develop high …
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This paper estimates the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral and North-South-East-West Highways in India on welfare, social inclusion, and environmental quality. The analysis uses district-level data for 1994-2011 and the difference-in-difference method. The results suggest that the highways...
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How do labor income shocks affect household investment in upper secondary and tertiary schooling? Using longitudinal … data from 2005-15 for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, this paper explores the effect of a negative household income shock on … the enrollment status of youth ages 15 to 25. The findings suggest that negative income shocks significantly increase the …
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track, the bottom 40 percent of the income distribution is lagging behind in the EU's recovery. This is likely caused by the … agriculture into a key sector for shared prosperity in rural areas: agriculture is no longer associated with poverty. The other … agriculture to thrive are in place: roads, advisory services, secure property rights, and access to health and education. This …
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Sweden's gender pension gap is about 33 percent at retirement, reflecting the gender earnings gap - itself a reflection of a structural gender difference in low-pay jobs for women and men and career advancement opportunities. The individual nonfinancial defined contribution (NDC) account data...
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