Resultados de búsqueda - "empirical evidence"

Building an evaluative culture for effective evaluation and results management por Mayne, J.

“…Such an organization values empirical evidence on the results it is seeking to achieve.…”
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Building an evaluative culture for effective evaluation and results management por Mayne, J.

“…Such an organization values empirical evidence on the results it is seeking to achieve.…”
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A review of the contribution of livestock to food security, poverty alleviation and environmental sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa por Ehui, Simeon K.

“…This paper reviews the empirical evidence on the contribution of livestock to aggregate food supply, farm income, human nutrition, and to the environmental sustainability. …”
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The nonfarm sector and rural development: review of issues and evidence por Islam, Nurul

“…This paper assembles empirical evidence on the nonfarm sector and analyzes policies for affecting future rural development. …”
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The nonfarm sector and rural development: review of issues and evidence por Islam, Nurul

“…This paper brings together empirical evidence on the nonfarm sector and analyzes policies for its future development. …”
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Linking Women's Empowerment and their Resilience por Leder, S.

“…Based on conceptualizations of empowerment ranging from narrow and instrumentalist to complex ones that engage with structural and social change, interpretations have diverse and reciprocal impacts on methodological considerations and the nature of empirical evidence. Furthermore, these diverse conceptualizations are used to evaluate and inform developmental policies and projects to varying degrees.…”
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Income growth, population and savings in the Southern Africa development community region por Matchaya, Greenwell C., Nhemachen, Charles, Nhlengenthwa, Sibusiso

“…While literature is replete with theories linking low incomes to population growth and savings, empirical evidence is context specific and often mixed. …”
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Performance-Based Financing tool for local level sustainable enterprise finance in community forestry por CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry

“…ICRAF Dryad Cameroon Field Monitoring System (FMS) is now operational in all 32 CFEs with all communities fully trained- including 179 employees (40% women and 60% Men); A paper on “the state of community forest enterprises (CFEs as successful social enterprises: empirical evidence from Cameroon”…”
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Multilocational trials for improved forages in Kenya por Muruu, David, Karimi, Peggy, Odhiambo, Ruth, Mwendia, Solomon, Peters, Michael

“…Towards this endeavour, selected forage grasses and legumes were established in three sites in Kenya to provided empirical evidence on their performance in these agro-ecologies and by extension in similar environments elsewhere.…”
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Aspirations and women's empowerment: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan por Kosec, Katrina, Song, Jie

“…We find strong empirical evidence that raising aspirations is one route to empowering women. …”
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Do formula-based intergovernmental transfer mechanisms eliminate politically motivated targeting? Evidence from Ghana por Banful, Afua Branoah

“…Such practices also can result in tensions between classes, and ethnic and religious groups, which are concentrated in distinct geographical areas. Nevertheless, empirical evidence consistently confirms that the practice of allocating government resources based on political relationships continues to be pervasive around the world. …”
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The impacts of IFPRI's Global Research Program on the Sustainable Development of Less-Favored Areas por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…IFPRI's Global Research Program on the Sustainable Development of Less-Favored Areas was initiated in 1998, with the goals of (1) providing empirical evidence on appropriate development strategies and public investments for improving the well-being of individuals living in less-favored areas (LFAs); and (2) assessing the appropriate targeting of various public investments to favored versus less-favored areas. …”
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Long-term consequences of short-term precipitation shocks: Evidence from Brazilian migrant households por Mueller, Valerie, Osgood, Daniel Edward

“…This outcome is consistent with the behavior of credit‐constrained rural households who are willing to accept lower long‐term income in urban areas following the depletion of their productive assets during an adverse shock. Our empirical evidence suggests that there may be a link between large precipitation shocks in rural areas and urban poverty. …”
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Moving in the right direction? Maize productivity and fertilizer use and use intensity in Ghana por Chapoto, Antony, Ragasa, Catherine

“…Using cross-sectional data on 630 maize farmers and 645 maize plots in Ghana, this paper provides empirical evidence on the responsiveness of maize yield to fertilizer use and use intensity and the economics of fertilizer use with or without subsidy. …”
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Gender assessment of the agricultural sector in the Democratic Republic of the Congo por Ragasa, Catherine, Kinwa-Muzinga, Annie, Ulimwengu, John M.

“…This assessment contributes to the knowledge gap by compiling existing empirical evidence and investigating the gender gaps in access to resources and opportunities in the agriculture and food sector in the DRC.…”
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Assessing the factors underlying differences in group performance: methodological issues and empirical findings from the highlands of Central Kenya por Place, Frank, Kariuki, Gatarwa, Wangila, Justine, Kristjanson, Patricia, Makauki, Adolf, Ndubi, Jessica

“…This paper examines the performance of rural groups in Kenya and addresses the methodological issues and challenges faced in doing this, and presents the empirical evidence regarding various hypothesized explanatory factors for relative performance levels.... …”
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Rural and urban dynamics and poverty: Evidence from China and India por Fan, Shenggen, Chan-Kang, Connie, Mukherjee, Anit

“…The bulk of the population of each of these countries still resides in the rural areas where the incidence of poverty is greatest....Empirical evidence demonstrates that public investment in the rural sector—particularly in rural infrastructure as well as in agricultural research and development, and education—will yield the largest returns in terms of both growth and poverty reduction. …”
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Implications of consumer-oriented food subsidies for domestic agriculture por von Braun, Joachim

“…That is, what is the empirical evidence? 3. How may the potentially negative effects of consumer-oriented food subsidies on domestic agriculture be avoided?…”
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Shocks and their consequences across and within households in rural Zimbabwe por Hoddinott, John F.

“…This work links the extent to which households smooth consumption or smooth assets given income shocks, the empirical evidence on the churning of households in and out of poverty, and the possibility that temporary shocks can have permanent consequences. …”
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Climate risks and agricultural changes in conflict-affected Myanmar por Minten, Bart, van Asselt, Joanna, Aung, Zin Wai, Goeb, Joseph

“…Climate change and conflict are increasingly shaping livelihoods in Myanmar, with agricultural households among the most directly affected. Yet, empirical evidence on how these stressors affect farmers’ adaptation strategies and agricultural assets remains limited. …”
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