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Evaluating nutrition and health impacts of agricultural innovations
Qaim, Matin - 2014
details of these agriculture-nutrition-health linkages are not yet well understood. While there is a broad literature on the …Agricultural innovations are seen as a key avenue to improve nutrition and health in smallholder farm households. But … and health impacts have rarely been analyzed. In this article, we argue that future impact studies should include …
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Bread of the Future : Climate Change, Agriculture and Food in Latin America (El Pan Del Futuro: Cambio Climático, Agricultura Y Alimentación En América Latina)
Maletta, Hector E. - 2014
impact on agriculture and food security. Such impact estimates use two methods: Ricardian models and Integrated Assessment … changes, income growth and others). Unexpectedly enough, the resulting prospects for agriculture and food are not catastrophic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014182912
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Microfinance and Poverty -A Macro Perspective
Imai, Katsushi S.; Gaiha, Raghav; Thapa, Ganesh; Annim, … - Research Institute for Economics and Business … - 2010
Building on the recent literature on finance, growth and hunger, we have examined the experience of Asian countries over the last five decades, using dynamic panel models. Although the results are mixed, depending on the specification and variables used, there is some evidence favouring a...
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Macroeconomic and distributional impacts of jatropha based biodiesel in Mali
Boccanfuso, Dorothée; Coulibaly, Massaoly; Savard, Luc; … - In: Economies : open access journal 6 (2018) 4/63, pp. 1-22
existing agriculture land is used for jatropha cultivation. The distributional results are slightly different. We find that …
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Do Minimum Wage Laws Affect Those Who Are Not Covered? Evidence From Agricultural and Non-Agricultural Workers
Fan, Maoyong - 2020
) are exempt. U.S. agriculture also is characterized by a large percentage of unauthorized workers who may or may not earn …
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Do Minimum Wage Laws Affect People Who are Not Covered? Evidence from Documented, Undocumented, Hourly, and Piece Rate Workers in U.S. Agriculture
Pena, Anita - 2015
), are exempt. Furthermore, U.S. agriculture is characterized by a large percentage of illegal migrants, and workers who are … illegal may or may not receive wages above minimum levels. This paper presents a case study, drawing from agriculture, that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013035593
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Understanding the Effects of Agricultural R&D Investments on Poverty and Undernourishment in Sub-Saharan Africa : A Causal Mediation Approach
Benfica, Rui; Nin Pratt, Alejandro - 2021
This analysis explores the relationship between agricultural R&D investments and rural poverty reduction, and the prevalence of undernourishment in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It uses a panel data set of internationally comparable poverty dis-aggregated by urban and rural areas, country level...
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Impact of a Lower Oil Subsidy on Indonesian Macroeconomic Performance, Agricultural Sector and Poverty Incidences : A Recursive Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Analysis
Oktaviani, Rina; Hakim, Dedi B.; Sahara; Siregar, Hermanto - 2015
Budget deficit, exchange rate fluctuation and high fuel world price provides a pressure on budget capacity to stimulate the Indonesian economy. The government has designed several fiscal policies, including reducing the fuel subsidy. The study objective is to analyse the impact of reducing fuel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014220796
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Agricultural Productivity, Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth in Africa : Linkages and Pathways
Ogundipe, Adeyemi; Oduntan, Emmanuel Akanji; Adebayo, … - 2016
livelihood and food from agriculture. The Sub-Saharan African region is home to more than quarter of a billion people living in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014124767
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The Labor Productivity Gap between the Agricultural and Nonagricultural Sectors, and Poverty and Inequality Reduction in Asia
Imai, Katsushi S.; Gaiha, Raghav; Bresciani, Fabrizio - 2019
The objective of this paper is to examine how agricultural and nonagricultural labor productivities have grown over time and whether the growth pattern affected poverty in low- and middle-income economies in Asia. We first examine whether labor productivities in the agricultural and...
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