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Impact of Self Help Groups on the food security and non-food consumption of weaker sections of the society

Swamy, Vighneswara; B.K., Tulasimala - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Microfinance across the globe is being practiced as a tool to mitigate poverty and chiefly as an empowerment tool to …

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Evidence-based research and its effect on policymaking:

Islam, Nurul - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

Evidence-based research is widely recognized as an essential input in effective economic policymaking. However, for the results of their research to influence policy, the research community must overcome a variety of challenges, including the absence of adequate and relevant data, differences of...

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The impact of India's rural employment guarantee on demand for agricultural technology:

Bhargava, Anil K. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

This paper investigates whether this increase in the opportunity cost of agricultural labor incentivizes farm owners to adopt labor-saving agricultural technology. Using a regression discontinuity design and new Indian agricultural census data, this paper finds that NREGA causes a shift of...

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Aligning public expenditure for agricultural development priorities under rapid transformation: The case of China:

Yu, Bingxin; Chen, Kevin Z.; Zhang, Haisen - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

This paper provides a comprehensive review of agricultural policy and public agricultural expenditure (PAE) in China. China shifted away from taxing agriculture to supporting agriculture in the mid-2000s, but the sector faces mounting demographic, biophysical, and trade challenges. PAE in China...

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Role of water

Koo, Jawoo; Cox, Cindy M.; Siebert, Stefan; Doll, Petra - In: Atlas of African agriculture research and development: …

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Urban wage behavior and food price inflation: the case of Ethiopia [Research Note]:

Headey, Derek D.; Bachewe, Fantu Nisrane; Worku, Ibrahim; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012

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Resilience for food and nutrition security

Fan, Shenggen (contributor); Pandya-Lorch, Rajul (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

In recent years, many people and parts of the world have been hit by major shocks ranging from conflicts, erratic weather patterns, earthquakes, droughts, and floods to food price spikes. At the same time, poor people and communities remain vulnerable to shocks that may be smaller in...

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How to build resilience to conflict: The role of food security

Breisinger, Clemens; Ecker, Olivier; Maystadt, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

This Food Policy Report explains why there is a need to place even higher priority on food security-related policies and programs in conflict-prone countries, and offers insights for policymakers regarding how to do so. To understand the relationship between conflict and food security, this...

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Growth and population dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa

Chevallier, Agnès; Goff, Maëlan Le - In: Panorama du CEPII (2014) 3

levels remain significantly lower than in other developing countries and the effect of growth on poverty is very small. At …

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Accuracy and Poverty Impacts of Proxy Means-Tested Transfers: An Empirical Assessment for Bolivia

Klasen, Stephan; Lange, Simon - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2015

-effective way to identify income-poor beneficiaries of targeted anti-poverty programs. However, their usefulness depends on whether …-parametric regression-techniques, we show that the resulting leakage can largely be confined to the non-poor close to the poverty line …. However, simulating the impact on poverty measures of a uniform transfer to beneficiaries across inclusion rates suggests that …

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