Search Results - "poverty reduction"

PIM 2017 annual report by CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets

“…Real food prices remain well above the levels of the 1980s and 1990s, slowing progress on poverty reduction (FAO food price index). Crises due to conflict and adverse weather in 2017 put 815 million people at risk of hunger (IFPRI’s 2018 Global Food Policy Report), reversing the prior downward trend, and straining social protection and emergency relief programs. …”
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Policy support through modeling and evaluation: Methodological challenges and practical solutions by Badiane, Ousmane, Henning, Christian, Krampe, Eva

“…A critical challenge for all policymakers wrestling with economic development and poverty reduction in Africa—as well as everywhere else in the world—is how to assess which programs and policies actually work. …”
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A poverty-sensitive scorecard to prioritize lending and grant allocation: Evidence from Central America by Hernandez, Manuel A., Torero, Máximo

“…Development projects are generally subject to a potential tradeoff between sustainability and poverty reduction. Grants are also commonly assigned without a standardized criterion. …”
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Locus of control, hyperbolic preferences, and demand for commitment and savings: Evidence from rural Ethiopia by Abay, Kibrom A., Berhane, Guush, Assefa, Thomas

“…These results provide interesting insights that may help in designing poverty reduction policies.…”
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Producing biofuels in low-income countries: An integrated environmental and economic assessment for Tanzania by Branca, Giacomo, Felix, Erika, Maltsoglou, Irini, Rincón, Luis E., Thurlow, James

“…Overall, environmental constraints alter the socioeconomically optimal biofuel strategy for Tanzania by limiting potential poverty reduction. Unlike previous studies, our integrated assessment suggests that a mixed farming system with greater emphasis on large-scale plantations is more appropriate for producing sugarcane-ethanol in Tanzania.…”
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Reducing risk, strengthening resilience: Social protection and nutrition by Drimie, Scott, Yosef, Sivan

“…Struggling to meet the needs of their poor populations through various poverty-reduction initiatives, they wondered whether attaching conditions to those programs would make a difference. …”
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The economywide impacts of climate change on Philippine agriculture by Rosegrant, Mark W., Perez, Nicostrato, Pradesha, Angga, Thomas, Timothy S.

“…Sustaining agricultural production growth to help achieve inclusive growth and poverty reduction is a key goal for the Philippine government.…”
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Typology of agricultural productivity zones by Yu, Bingxin, Guo, Zhe

“…Within a given farming system, production agents also are heterogeneous, in terms of not only the resource constraints they face (Byerlee, Harrington, and Winkelmann 1982; Chambers and Jiggins 1987), but also how those resource constraints affect technology adoption and technological change that may result in productivity growth and possibly poverty reduction (Feder, Just, and Zilberman 1985; Feder and Umali 1993). …”
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Varietal development and the effectiveness of seed sector policies: The case of rice in Nigeria by Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Maji, Alhassan

“…Seed is an essential input in agriculture, and the availability of quality seed of superior varieties is often critical for improved food security and poverty reduction in developing countries like Nigeria. …”
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What is the optimal locus of control for social assistance programs? Evidence from the productive safety net programme in Ethiopia by Simons, Andrew M.

“…The major policy implication is that the financial scale of the safety net program is more important to poverty reduction than the locus of control over implementation.…”
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Steadying the ladder: China's agricultural and rural development engagement in Africa by Chen, Kevin Z., Hsu, Claire, Fan, Shenggen

“…The authors then examine strategies for development – in particular agricultural and rural development – and poverty reduction. Next, the authors review China's economic engagement in Africa in the areas of trade, investment, aid, and technical cooperation.– Having conducted a comparative review of China and Africa's distinct development paths and current policy contexts, the authors discuss China's development lessons for Africa South of the Sahara and policy recommendations for China-Africa engagement related to agricultural and rural development, openness and liberalization, evidence-based policymaking, pro-poor policies, institutions and capacity, rising inequality, and environmental degradation.– This paper rigorously integrates China's positive and negative development lessons for Africa in light of the most recent research on emerging domestic and international development strategies.…”
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The political economy of MGNREGS spending in Andhra Pradesh by Sheahan, Megan, Liu, Yanyan, Barrett, Christopher B., Narayanan, Sudha

“…While government spending on pro-poor community asset creation and income-transfers could have compounding positive effects on poverty reduction, it is important to first study trends in the allocation of funds, particularly as they relate to the susceptibility of the program to political clientelism. …”
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Fruit and vegetable value chains in Africa by Aboushady, Nora, Kornher, Lukas, Zaki, Chahir

“…Participation in FVVCs can also have positive impacts on employment creation, income mobility, and poverty reduction. Yet, Africa’s participation in FVVCs is undermined by a number of structural challenges, some of which are typical of FVVCs, and some related to long-standing issues facing African economies in general, and the agriculture sector in particular.…”
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The transformation of the Afar Commons in Ethiopia: State coercion, diversification, and property rights change among pastoralists by Hundie, Bekele, Padmanabhan, Martina

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Integrating livestock in the CAADP framework: Policy analysis using a dynamic computable general equilibrium model for Ethiopia by Gelan, Ayele, Engida, Ermias, Caria, A. Stefano, Karugia, Joseph T.

“…Researchers and policymakers increasingly recognize that the livestock sector supports the livelihoods of a large proportion of rural households in Africa and may have an important role to play in rural poverty reduction strategies. In order to develop this insight, economywide models should capture both the biological, dynamic relationships between the stocks and flows of livestock and the economic linkages between the sector and the rest of the economy. …”
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Trends in key agricultural and rural development indicators in Rwanda by Bizimana, Claude, Usengumukiza, Felicien, Kalisa, John, Rwirahira, John

“…This report gives an account of the progress towards achieving the Vision 2020 goals and Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (EDPRS) targets, the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG1), and the implementation of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) compact in Rwanda. …”
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Potential impact of investments in drought tolerant maize in Africa by La Rovere, Roberto, Kostandini, Genti, Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Dixon, John, Mwangi, Wilfred, Guo, Zhe, Banziger, Marianne

“…This study was conducted in collaboration with HarvestChoice (IFPRI) and evaluates the potential impacts of the Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa (DTMA) project run by CIMMYT and the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in 13 countries of eastern, southern and West Africa, describing cumulative economic and poverty-reduction benefits to farmers and consumers in those countries over 2007-16, from higher yields and from diminished season-to-season yield fluctuations, through the adoption by farmers of improved, drought tolerant maize varieties. …”
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Rural institutions and imperfect agricultural markets in Africa: Experiences from producer marketing groups in Kenya by Shiferaw, Bekele, Muricho, Geoffrey, Kassie, Menale, Obare, Gideon

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Strategies and priorities for African agriculture: Economywide perspectives from country studies by Diao, Xinshen, Thurlow, James, Benin, Samuel, Fan, Shenggen

“…This book examines the potential of agriculture to contribute to national growth and poverty reduction. It also evaluates the financial costs of accelerating agricultural growth. …”
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Social equity, inclusiveness, gender, and climate change adaptation: Helping people and communities build climate resilience (A compilation of article abstract) by Soriaga, Rowena, Cabriole, Marie Aislinn, Marie, Aislinn, Oro-Monville, Emilita, Hellin, Jon

“…ClimBeR's goal is to enhance smallholder resilience while ensuring equitable outcomes and contributing to poverty reduction. However, gender disparities in decision-making and climate investment remain significant barriers. …”
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