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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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Prévention des déficiences chez les personnes sans-abri : intérêt d’un aliment de rue enrichi

Darmon, Nicole; Briend, André - In: Cahiers d'Economie et Sociologie Rurales 79 (2006), pp. 53-66

Pour mieux prévenir la dénutrition et les déficiences vitaminiques et minérales chez les personnes en situation d’exclusion, nous avons mis au point un aliment enrichi facile à consommer dans la rue : le Vitapoche®. Il s’agit d’une pâte chocolatée résistante à la contamination...

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Armed Conflicts and Food Security

Teodosijevic, Slobodanka B. - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2003

Despite the end of the Cold War conflicts are still very frequent and most of them occur in developing countries. However, the nature of conflicts has changed and the proportion of civilian fatalities has increased markedly. The causes and consequences of conflicts are often a complex mix of...

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How Cash Transfers Promote the Case for Basic Income

Standing, Guy - In: Basic Income Studies 3 (2008) 1, pp. 5-5

There has long been a minority view that providing people with cash is an effective way of combating poverty and economic insecurity while promoting livelihoods and work. The mainstream view has nevertheless been that giving people money, without conditions or obligations, promotes idleness and...

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The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Annual Progress Report

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004

This report assesses the Annual Progress Report on the implementation of the Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction Program (SDPRP), which is the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper for Ethiopia. It reviews the fundamental development objectives of the SDPRP to build a free-market economic...

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Food Aid’s Intended and Unintended Consequences

Barrett, Christopher B. - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2006

This paper surveys the existing empirical evidence on the unintended consequences of food aid. Micro-level evidence is presented on the impacts of food aid deliveries on household labour supply, production incentives, consumption patterns and natural resource use. At the meso-level, evidence on...

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