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Seeing is believing? Evidence from an extension network experiment by Kondylis, Florence, Mueller, Valerie, Zhu, Siyao Jessica

“…We run a field experiment to measure the impact of augmenting the CF model with a direct CF training on the diffusion of a new technology. …”
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Strengthening resilience of rural households through improved social protection by CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets

“…Adequate social protection programs help vulnerable people address immediate needs, protect and augment their assets and human capital, and move out of poverty. …”
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The returns to empowerment in diversified rural household: Evidence from Niger by Wouterse, Fleur

“…In fact, empowerment is the only human capital variable that strongly and positively affects total household income, opening up interesting avenues for policy interventions aimed at augmenting a household’s noncognitive ability through, for example, leadership training or encouraging producer group membership—to increase incomes of the rural poor.…”
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US trade wars with emerging countries in the 21st century: Make America and Its partners lose again by Bouët, Antoine, Laborde Debucquet, David

“…We conclude that there is no scenario in which the US government augments its domestic welfare or gross domestic product. …”
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MusaDeepMosaic: Development of a machine learning genomic mosaic classifier tool. by Vicens, Romain, Cenci, Alberto, Guillaume, Martin, Sardos, Julie, Rouard, Mathieu, Breton, Catherine

“…The initial results of our data augmentation and normalization efforts, based on clustering, are encouraging. …”
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Orange Fleshed Sweetpotato is here to stay in Angola by International Potato Center

“…Improved sweetpotato varieties produced yields three times higher than existing local varieties, and were sold in the market, augmenting farmers’ income.…”
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Using best-worst scaling to inform agroecological interventions in Western Kenya by Zander, Kerstin K., Drucker, Adam G., Aluso, Lillian, Mengistu, Dejene K., Fadda, Carlo, Termote, Céline, Davis, Kristin E.

“…To assess such preferences, we conducted a survey among farmers in Western Kenya which included a best-worst scaling experiment augmented by qualitative questions about the reasons for farmers’ views about the importance of the benefits arising from agroecological practices. …”
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Achieving sustainability and scalability of a large-scale prenatal cash and food transfer intervention in Bangladesh by Akter, Fahmida, Parvin, Aklima, Roy, Shalini, Frongillo, Edward A., Leroy, Jef L., Larson, Leila M.

“…We conducted implementation research that aimed to understand how the MCBP, and augmented versions of it, 1) stimulated behavior changes, 2) enabled or prevented participants to sustain behavior changes, and 3) achieved conditions required for program scale-up.…”
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How did wars dampen trade in the MENA region? by Karam, Fida, Zaki, Chahir

“…This paper investigates the effects of war on trade in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA), an area at considerable risk for conflicts. Using an augmented gravity model, we introduce a war variable and distinguish between different types of conflicts. …”
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India’s rural employment guarantee boosts demand for agricultural technology by Bhargava, Anil K., International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, International Food Policy Research Institute, International Livestock Research Institute, International Rice Research Institute, WorldFish

“…A focus on education and agricultural skill development may augment the chances that workers are prepared for a higher-productivity agricultural sector. …”
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Putting it all together: Aggregating impacts of school-feeding programmes on education, health and nutrition: two proposed methodologies by Gelli, Aulo, Espejo, Francisco, Shen, Jing, Kristjansson, Elizabeth

“…School-feeding is an important intervention to attract children to school and augment their learning. The benefits of school-feeding cover several domains. …”
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Strategies of subversion in vertically-divided contexts: Decentralisation and urban service delivery in Senegal by Resnick, Danielle

“…Senegal's decentralisation process provided opportunities for the central government to deliberately reduce the autonomy of local government under conditions in which the latter could be held accountable for good service delivery and increase autonomy when local government could be targeted for poor performance – actions manifested through backtracking on political decentralisation, undermining fiscal decentralisation, and augmenting administrative ambiguity. The case offers useful implications for donors involved in decentralisation and urban service‐delivery projects in opposition‐controlled cities.…”
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The contribution of increased equity to the estimated social benefits from a transfer program: An illustration from PROGRESA by Alderman, Harold, Behrman, Jere R., Tasneem, Afia

“…These, moreover, are an underestimate of the gains from redistribution because, in addition to current gains, such gains will be augmented in the future through the distribution of the returns on the human capital investments induced by cash transfer programs. …”
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Agricultural diversity and child stunting in Nepal by Shively, Gerald E., Sununtnasuk, Celeste

“…This article investigates empirical connections between agriculture and child nutrition in Nepal. We augment the standard approach to explaining child nutrition outcomes by including information about household level agricultural production characteristics, including indicators of agricultural diversity. …”
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Aiding government effectiveness in developing countries by Gisselquist, Rachel M., Resnick, Danielle

“…The first domain examines donor efforts to augment government effectiveness at providing key services to citizens by national and local authorities. …”
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Early childhood nutrition and health by Azzarri, Carlo

“…The first domain examines donor efforts to augment government effectiveness at providing key services to citizens by national and local authorities. …”
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The impact of extension delivery through private local service providers on production outcomes of small-scale aquaculture farmers in Bangladesh by Obi, Chinedu, Manyise, Timothy, Brako Dompreh, Eric, Khondker, Murshed-E-Jahan, Rossignoli, Cristiano

“…Data analysis was conducted with Multivalued Treatment Effects (MTE) estimated using an augmented inverse-probability weighting method that allows for heterogeneous treatment effects. …”
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Economic, equity, and political trade-offs in energy transition in irrigation in Bihar, India by Durga, N., Gaurav, S.

“…Policies for improving electricity access and augmenting supply are likely to impact affordability and equity in irrigation access, especially in regions where agriculture is the mainstay of the economy. …”
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Using elicitation mechanisms to estimate the demand for nutritious maize: Evidence from experiments in rural Ghana by Chowdhury, Shyamal, De Groote, Hugo, Meenakshi, Jonnalagadda V., Haleegoah, Joyce, Ewool, Manfred, Banerji, Abhijit

“…The basic design of the experiment involved random allocation of consumers to one of three elicitation methods. This was augmented to include treatment arms to address the effect of (1) participation fees and (2) nutrition information on WTP.…”
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Collective action, social capital and group lending by CGIAR Program on Collective Action and Property Rights

“…For low-income households with meager assets, financial services that could potentially augment their income are of extreme importance. Financial mechanisms that could facilitate asset buildup, protect against risks, and sustain livelihoods of poor people would go a long way in improving their living conditions and social status. …”
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