Resultados de búsqueda - "living standards"

Agricultural mechanization patterns in Nigeria: Insights from farm household typology and agricultural household model simulation por Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Nin-Pratt, Alejandro, Diao, Xinshen

“…We apply cluster analysis to data from the Living Standards Measurement Study—Integrated Surveys on Agriculture project in Nigeria to identify associations between mechanization and farm household types. …”
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Supply and demand for cereals in Nepal, 2010-2030 por Prasad, Sanjay K., Pullabhotla, Hemant, Ganesh-Kumar, Anand

“…For estimating the demand function and projecting future demand, data from the Nepal Living Standards Survey II (NLSS II), undertaken in the year 2003/04, are used.…”
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Access to credit and its impact on welfare in Malawi por Diagne, Aliou, Zeller, Manfred

“…Improved access to credit, they argue, will help poor rural households engage in more productive income-generating activities both on and off the farm and raise their living standards. Community and member-based microfinance programs have thus enjoyed considerable political and financial support during the 1990s. …”
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Access to credit and its impact on welfare in Malawi por Diagne, Aliou, Zeller, Manfred

“…Improved access to credit, they argue, will help poor rural households engage in more productive income-generating activities both on and off the farm and raise their living standards. Community and member-based microfinance programs have thus enjoyed considerable political and financial support during the 1990s. …”
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Examining the socioeconomic impacts of irrigation in the Southeast Anatolia Region of Turkey por Miyata, Sachiko, Fujii, Tomoki

“…We surveyed seven irrigated and eight non-irrigated villages in Sanliurfa Province, collecting several indicators at the household level, including crop patterns, household living standards, and access to water. Local perception of the irrigation project and decisions regarding water use also are examined. …”
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Agricultural diversity and child stunting in Nepal por Shively, Gerald E., Sununtnasuk, Celeste

“…Data from the 2010/2011 Nepal Living Standards Survey (NLSS) are used in a series of regression models to explain stunting outcomes and variation in height-for-age Z-scores among 1,769 children 0–59 months of age. …”
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The spatial distribution of poverty in Vietnam and the potential for targeting por Minot, Nicholas, Baulch, Bob

“…First, the paper estimates per capita expenditure as a function of selected household and geographic characteristics using the 1998 Vietnam Living Standards Survey. Next, these results are combined with data on the same household characteristics from the 1999 Census to estimate the incidence of poverty in each province. …”
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2020 Focus briefs on the world's poor and hungry people por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The best data for assessing progress against poverty come from surveys of the living standards of nationally representative samples of households. …”
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Reaching middle-income status in Ghana by 2015: What are the constraints and opportunities for raising agriculture productivity? por Benin, Samuel, Randriamamonjy, Josee

“…Using data from the recent Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSSV) to estimate the determinants of (i) adoption and intensity of adoption of purchased inputs, (ii) crop productivity, and (iii) agriculture income per capita, this paper analyzes the constraints and opportunities for raising agriculture production in order the above challenge... …”
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Willingness to pay for biological diversity conservation in Simbu Province, Papua New Guinea por Ezebilo, Eugene Ejike

“…In recent years, economic hardship and rapid population growth have eroded living standards for millions of people in the developing world. …”

Gendered impacts of falling rubber prices: Changing livelihood strategies in China's rubber hearltand por Su, Y., Sujakhu, N.M., Smith, A.

“…The rubber industry has become an important economic driver for lifting rural farmers out of poverty and ensuring basic living standards in a historically underdeveloped area of the country. …”
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An evaluation of groundwater institutions in India: a property rights perspective por Ananda, J., Aheeyar, Mohamed M. M.

“…Groundwater governance has become an intractable policy issue, which has many implications for the living standards and well-being of millions of rural poor in South Asia. …”
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A 2007 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Vietnam por Arndt, Channing, Garcia, Andre, Pham, Hoang Ha, McCoy, Simon, Tarp, Finn, Thurlow, James

“…Labor and household information is drawn from the 2006 Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey. Finally, the SAM identifies government, investment and foreign accounts. …”
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Achieving food security in southern Africa: new challenges, new opportunities por Haddad, Lawrence James

“…Now Southern Africa is experiencing a wave of economic and political reform that has the potential to raise living standards and bring the countries of the region into the world economy as full participants. …”
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Financial access of midstream agricultural firms in Africa: Evidence from the LSMS‐ISA and World Bank Enterprise Surveys por Ambler, Kate, de Brauw, Alan, Herskowitz, Sylvan, Pulido, Cristhian

“…We use data from the Living Standards Measurement Study—Integrated Surveys on Agriculture and the World Bank Enterprise Survey from seven African countries, to identify agricultural midstream firms and assess their access to credit, comparing them to nonagricultural midstream firms. …”
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Improving decentralized forest management in Cameroon: options and opportunities from ten years of experience por Oyono, P.R., Ribot, J.C., Assembe-Mvondo, Samuel, Logo, P.B.

“…The impacts of this transfer of power on local democracy, equity, living standards, poverty alleviation, social vulnerability and environmental sustainability are, however, weak. …”
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Implementing the world conservation strategy: success stories from Central America and Colombia por Barborak, J.R., Green, G.C.

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Presentations for Introducing the new Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) por Quisumbing, Agnes R., Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Heckert, Jessica, Seymour, Greg

“…WEMNS was developed by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Emory University, Oxford University, and the World Bank’s Living Standards Measurement Study Unit in collaboration with country partners and the 50x2030 Initiative, supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the United States Agency for International Development. …”
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Harmonized Data for Measuring the Effects of Weather Variability por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The sources of household survey data are the following: National Household Budget Surveys and National Panel Surveys (for Tanzania); National Household Surveys and National Panel Surveys (for Uganda); and Ghana Living Standards Surveys (for Ghana). Precipitation data are obtained from the Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Station data (CHIRPS). …”
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Nonfarm employment, agricultural intensification, and productivity change: Empirical findings from Uganda por Amare, Mulubrhan, Shiferaw, Bekele

“…This article uses panel data from the Living Standards Measurement Study‐Integrated Surveys on Agriculture for Uganda to assess the farm‐level effects of nonfarm employment on agricultural intensification and productivity change. …”
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