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consumption and around 0.4 fewer meals per day per person. Poverty increased by 12 and 17.5 percentage points in two of the three …
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high-poverty areas of rural Mozambique. Preschools were randomly assigned to 30 of 76 eligible communities. Using a panel …
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interest or support from governments. This is the case in Mozambique, where neither the poverty reduction strategy nor small … higher household consumption, lower rural poverty, as well as upward mobility, particularly for rural and poorly educated …
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nationally representative household survey on poverty dynamics; (ii) to assess the robustness and reliability of official poverty … statistics; and (iii) to provide alternative estimates of poverty and welfare indicators in light of the methodological and … poverty-rate estimates: measurement errors in consumption data and flaws in the methodology used to calculate poverty lines …
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Management of common-pool resources in the absence of individual pricing can lead to suboptimal allocation. In the context of irrigation schemes, this can create water scarcity even when there is sufficient water to meet the total requirements. High-frequency data from three irrigation schemes...
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Almost a decade after large land-based investment for agriculture increased sharply, opinions on its impact continue to …
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on Agriculture. In addition, the paper (i) develops internationally comparable measures of overall agro-ecological crop …
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This paper uses the recently collected Living Standard Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture Initiative …
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sheds light on the relationship between poverty and agriculture as part of the process of structural transformation. It … crisis of 2008. This paper assesses the role of agriculture and the Common Agricultural Program in achieving this. The paper … regional level where the Common Agricultural Program funding tends to go, poverty-wise, within each country. This approach …
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This paper analyzes the effects of land market restrictions on structural change from agriculture to non-farm in a …-inelastic (assuming the non-farm good is non-tradable), or non-agriculture is less labor intensive relative to agriculture (assuming the … disaggregated occupational choices suggests that land restrictions increase wage employment in agriculture, but reduce it in …
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