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Agriculture, development, and urban bias by Bezemer, Dirk J, Headey, Derek D.

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Reversing Urban Bias in African Rice Markets: Evidence from Senegal by Demont, M., Rutsaert, Pieter, Ndour, M., Wim, V.

“…Urban bias constitutes an important institutional impediment to economic development in poor countries. …”
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Rural and urban dynamics and poverty: Evidence from China and India by Fan, Shenggen, Chan-Kang, Connie, Mukherjee, Anit

“…More important, correcting the urban bias will lead to larger reductions in poverty as well as more balanced growth across sectors and regions. …”
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Rurbanomics for common prosperity: New approach to integrated urban-rural development by Chen, Kevin Z., Mao, Rui, Zhou, Yunyi

“…Chinese experience is employed to showcase concrete challenges from the urban–rural disparity and how the proposed approach works for urban-rural integration.Theoretical and practical approaches with urban bias largely fail to counter the challenges. Building on China's recent practice probing beyond urban bias, IFPRI (2019) proposes the term rurbanomics with a highlight of equalized urban-rural economic partnership, whereafter Zhou and Chen (2021) enrich the term into a conceptual framework. …”
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Decentralization and public service delivery in Nigeria by Okojie, Christiana

“…The deficiencies in service delivery have been exacerbated by a strong urban bias in development policies and growing fiscal imbalances among the three tiers of government: national, state, and local. …”
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Profit-making businesswomen or (too) proud women and prostitutes? : change and continuity in the social practice of gender at Kiwira market, Tanzania by Wahlström, Nora

“…However, this topic suffers from an urban bias as well as a focus mainly on West Africa. …”

The road to pro-poor growth in Zambia: past lessons and future challenges by Thurlow, James, Wobst, Peter

“…To better understand the failure of growth and poverty-reduction this paper first considers the relationship between the structure of growth and Zambia's evolving political economy. A strong urban-bias has shaped the country's growth path leading to an economy both artificially and unsustainably distorted in favor of manufacturing and mining at the expense of rural areas. …”
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Price, income and nutrition course: Tufts University and IFPRI course by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Topics: Overview of the role of incomes and prices in determining nutritional status/; Policy approaches to incomes and prices as mechanisms for affecting food consumption/; Methods for evaluating effectiveness of price and income policies (overview)/; Effectiveness of price and income policies/; Basic economic concepts: Supply, demand, equilibrium, price formation, and elasticity/; Basic economic concepts: Household consumption, utility analysis, indifference curve analysis, income and substitution effects, normal and inferior foods, and income-specific consumption parameters/; Extensions: Demand for micronutrients; effects of intrahousehold distribution on elasticity estimates, time allocation, and demand for food/; Farm household behavior and price policy: Production functions, marketed surplus, and prices as determinants of income and consumption of farmers and non-farmers/; Markets: Functions and failures/; Extensions: Nutrition and farm productivity, gender and agricultural production, and agricultural supply and nutrition/; Consumer price interventions: Explicit subsidies to consumers, implicit subsidies to consumers, subsidies to producers, effectiveness, and implementation issues/; Income interventions: Types, effectiveness, and differences between LDCs and developed safety net and food for work programs/; Intrahousehold issues: alternative views of the household, evidence on intrahousehold allocation, household composition and individual consumption, differential control of assets and incomes within the household/; Policy analysis case study/; Macro food policy: Macro prices and food sector, rural-urban terms of trade, and issues of urban bias/; Structural adjustment"…”
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Estimating the cost and affordability of healthy diets: How much do methods matter? by Headey, Derek D., Hirvonen, Kalle, Alderman, Harold

“…Testing these assumptions on the cost of the EAT-Lancet reference diet, we find sizable sensitivity of baseline methods to adjusting diet affordability estimates for systematic cross-country differences in demographic profiles and non-food expenditure requirements, smaller effects of adjusting for inadequate food product coverage in international price data, and inconclusive evidence on issues of urban bias in price surveys. Our proposed methodological improvements significantly change country, regional and global estimates of healthy diet affordability, though not the headline conclusion that several billion people cannot afford a healthy diet. …”
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Agricultural exit problems: Causes and consequences by Headey, Derek D., Bezemer, Dirk J, Hazell, Peter B. R.

“…Africa presents a divergent pattern of slow growth with rapid urbanization stemming from urban-biased policies, low rural population density, and high rates of population growth. …”
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中国教育和医疗卫生中的不平等问题 by Zhang, Xiaobo

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Investment and cultivation strategies for women and youth inclusion: cases from on-farm, off-farm and non-farm activities in Ethiopia and Mali by Nigussie, Likimyelesh, Diallo, A., Minh, Thai Thi

“…However, the literature on inclusive VCD in Africa is limited due to urban biases, and the lack of a framework to address gender inequality and poverty. …”
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Integrated urban-rural development and common prosperity: Connotation, international experience and implementation path [in Chinese] by Chen, Kevin Z., Mao, Rui, Zhang, Yunfei

“…China’s long-term implementation of urban-biased policies led to a huge gap between urban and rural areas for a long time and hindered the realization of common prosperity. …”
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