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Supports for Working Families: Work and Care Policies across Welfare States

Gornick, Janet C.; Meyers, Marcia K. - In: CESifo DICE Report 1 (2003) 4, pp. 13-18

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Aiding Conflict: The Impact of U.S. Food Aid on Civil War

Nunn, Nathan; Qian, Nancy - eSocialSciences - 2012

This paper examines the effect of U.S. food aid on conflict in recipient countries (these include Asian countries like Afghanistan, Sri Lanka). To establish a causal relationship, time variation in food aid is exploited which is caused by fluctuations in U.S. wheat production together with...

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Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) in Selected OECD Countries

Kamerman, Sheila B. - In: CESifo DICE Report 1 (2003) 4, pp. 19-24

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Parental employment and work-family stress: Associations with family food environments

Bauer, Katherine W.; Hearst, Mary O.; Escoto, Kamisha; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 3, pp. 496-504

' employment and parents' stress balancing work and home obligations. This study utilized data from Project F-EAT, a population …-based study of a socio-demographically diverse sample of 3709 parents of adolescents living in a metropolitan area in the … Midwestern United States, to examine cross-sectional associations between mothers' and fathers' employment status and parents …

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AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF A FOOD SECURITY COMMODITY RESERVE: COMMODITY VS. CASH

Young, C. Edwin; Westcott, Paul C.; Hoffman, Linwood A.; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 1999

The cost of operating the Food Security Commodity Reserve as a commodity reserve was compared with the cost of a cash reserve to purchase food aid supplies only in the period of need. Preliminary simulation results reveal the cash reserve to be less costly in almost all cases.

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Food Failures and Futures

Garrett, Laurrie - eSocialSciences - 2008

The paper is an analysis of food aid, rising food prices and its implications.

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Improving humanitarian response to slow-onset disasters using famine-indexed weather derivatives

Chaniarat, Sommarat; Turvey, Calum G.; Mude, Andrew G.; … - In: Agricultural Finance Review 68 (2008) September, pp. 169-195

This paper illustrates how weather derivatives indexed to forecasts of famine can be designed and used by operational agencies and donors to facilitate timely and reliable financing, for effective emergency response to climate-based, slow-onset disasters such as drought. We provide a general...

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Targeting food security interventions when â€œeveryone is poorâ€: The case of Ethiopiaâ€™s Productive Safety Net Programme

Coll-Black, Sarah; Gilligan, Daniel O.; Hoddinott, John; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011

In Ethiopia, as in many other African countries, there is a pressing need to improve household food security. An emerging consensus suggests that this is most easily accomplished through two development strategies with two complementary dimensions: investments that facilitate income generation...

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On food security stocks, peace clauses, and permanent solutions after Bali:

Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

This paper discusses potential solutions to the current impasse related to food security stocks, including a concrete proposal by the author on language to be included in the Agreement on Agriculture that may help comply with the mandate of the Bali Ministerial to find a solution in the next...

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Targeting food security interventions: The case of Ethiopiaâ€™s productive safety net programme

Coll-Black, Sarah; Gilligan, Daniel O.; Hoddinott, John F. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132774