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Access, adoption, and diffusion: The long-term impacts of improved vegetable and fish technologies in Bangladesh by Kumar, Neha, Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…As part of a larger longitudinal study that resurveyed 1,907 households and 102 villages in 14 of Bangladesh's 64 districts, the project focused on assessing the long-term impacts of a number of anti-poverty interventions—specifically, microfinance, agricultural technology, and educational transfers—on a range of monetary and nonmonetary measures of well-being. This note focuses on the long-term impacts on men's and women's assets of disseminating agricultural technologies to individuals compared with groups. …”
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Facing the development challenge in Mozambique: an economywide perspective by Tarp, Finn, Arndt, Channing, Jensen, Henning Tarp, Robinson, Sherman, Heltberg, Rasmus

“…The diagnosis was of an economy that failed to maintain monetary control, consumed beyond its means, focused production excessively on nontraded goods, and relied on inefficient and inflexible microeconomic structures. …”
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PROGRESA and its impacts on the human capital and welfare of households in rural Mexico: a synthesis of the results of an evaluation by IFPRI by Skoufias, Emmanuel

“…Targeting its benefits directly to the population in extreme poverty in rural areas, it aims to alleviate current poverty through monetary and in-kind benefits, as well as reduce future levels of poverty by encouraging investments in education, health and nutrition. …”
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Validity of rapid estimates of household wealth and income for health surveys in rural Africa by Morris, Saul Sutkover, Carletto, Calogero, Hoddinott, John F., Christiaensen, Luc

“…MAIN RESULTS -- In both Mali and Malawi, the wealth proxy correlated highly (r0.74) with the more complex monetary value method. For rural areas of Côte d'Ivoire, it was possible to generate a list of just 10 expenditure items, the values of which when summed correlated highly with expenditures on all items combined (r=0.74, development dataset, r=0.72, validation dataset). …”
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Carbon farming in India: are the existing projects inclusive, additional, and permanent? by Adeeth AG Cariappa, Krishna, Vijesh V.

“…Around 99% of farmers had not received any monetary benefit. While certain agricultural practices predated carbon projects, raising concerns about additionality, practices like no-tillage, alternate wetting and drying, intercropping, reduced chemical fertilizers, micro-irrigation, and tree planting aligned with additionality principles. …”
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Assessing the overall benefits of programs enhancing human capital and equity: A new method with an application to school meals by Alderman, Harold, Aurino, Elisabetta, Baffour, Priscilla Twumasi, Gelli, Aulo, Turkson, Festus Ebo, Wong, Brad

“…We then convert these into long-term monetary gains from increased learning, to which we finally add the distributional benefits under different scenarios of inequality aversion preferences. …”
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Is global human well-being peaking? by Grafton, R. Q., Chu, L., Kompas, T., Fanaian, Safa

“…A mitigation response to peaking average global human well-being is cross-country monetary transfers from higher- to lower-income countries. …”
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Micro-differences in local resource management: the case of honey in West Kalimantan, Indonesia by Jong, W. de

“…The paper argues that such institutionalized resource management provides a sound basis for resource use that meets new challenges, such as achieving sustainable use or increasing monetary incomes. The possible practical implications depend on the particularities of each individual case. …”
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Sumatra’s rubber agroforests: advent, rise and fall of a sustainable cropping system by Feintrenie, L., Levang, P.

“…But with growing demographic pressure, market integration and household monetary needs, agroforests are increasingly endangered. …”
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Why keep lions instead of livestock? Assessing wildlife-tourism based payment for ecosystem services involving herders in the Maasai Mara, Kenya by Osano, Philip M., Said, Mohammed Yahya, Leeuw, Jan de, Ndiwa, Nicholas N., Kaelo, D., Schomers, S., Birner, Regina, Ogutu, J.

“…These lands are set aside for wildlife tourism, in return for direct monetary payments by a coalition of five commercial tourism operators. …”
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Private farmers' compensation and viability of protected areas: The case of Nairobi National Park and Kitengela dispersal corridor by Rodríguez, L.C., Henson, D., Herrero, Mario, Nkedianye, D., Reid, Robin S.

“…Here we present an analysis of the willingness-to-pay (WTP) for Nairobi and Kitengela residents for a new land management scheme in the dispersal area, in which local pastoralists leave their land open to wildlife and, by not engaging in fencing, land subdivision or poaching activities, receive monetary compensation for the incremental costs derived from use of their properties as a wildlife dispersal area. …”
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Towards sustainable community management of water infrastructures: results from experimental games in coastal Bangladesh [Abstract only] by Buisson, Marie-Charlotte, Das, Arijit, Mukherji, Aditi

“…It also shows that institutional mechanisms that allow communities to be involved at an early stage of project formulation and make monetary contributions towards project implementation are more likely to contribute toward maintenance in the long term than communities who did not undergo such institutional processes.…”
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Farmers’ Willingness to Pay for Climate Information Services: Evidence from Cowpea and Sesame Producers in Northern Burkina Faso by Ouédraogo, Mathieu, Barry, Silamana, Zougmoré, Robert B., Partey, Samuel T., Somé, Léopold, Baki, Gregoire

“…The study used the contingent valuation method for a monetary valuation of farmers’ preferences for climate information. …”
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Modelling agroforestry systems by Rapidel, Bruno, Roupsard, Olivier, Navarro, Muriel

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El pasaporte verde como sistema de pago por servicios ecosistémicos en el Corredor Biológico Mesoamericano by Martínez de Anguita, Pablo, Rivera, Samuel, Argueta, Nora Chirstel

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Cost benefit and risk analysis of biofuel production in Pakistan by Naureen, Asma

“…Standard cost-benefit technique was applied to analyze and compare net returns of all the four feedstock-based biofuels in monetary terms. For risk assessment in all biofuels production, Monte Carlo simulation was applied. …”

A critical perspective on ecological unequal exchange, dependency and development by Isakson, Alberto

“…Chile is strongly interconnected to the global markets through its trade relations. From a monetary perspective the country has shown an outstanding trade performance, having an equilibrated trade balance, avoiding debts and even presenting periods with high surplus. …”
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Mitigating poverty and undernutrition through social protection: A simulation analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh and Myanmar by Ecker, Olivier, Alderman, Harold, Comstock, Andrew R., Headey, Derek D., Mahrt, Kristi, Pradesha, Angga

“…We then analyze the estimated mitigating effects of five hypothetical social protection interventions of a typical monetary value: (1) cash transfers; (2) in-kind transfers of common rice; (3) in-kind transfers of fortified rice enriched with multiple essential micronutrients; (4) vouchers for a diversified basket of rice and non-staple foods; and (5) food vouchers with fortified rice instead of common rice. …”
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Mitigating poverty and undernutrition through social protection: A simulation analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh and Myanmar by Ecker, Olivier, Alderman, Harold, Comstock, Andrew R., Headey, Derek D., Mahrt, Kristi, Pradesha, Angga

“…We then analyze the estimated mitigating effects of five hypothetical social protection interventions of a typical monetary value: (1) cash transfers; (2) in-kind transfers of common rice; (3) in-kind transfers of fortified rice enriched with multiple essential micronutrients; (4) vouchers for a diversified basket of rice and non-staple foods; and (5) food vouchers with fortified rice instead of common rice. …”
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From crisis to recovery: How CGIAR’s BRIGHT Survey can catalyze evidence-based policy reforms in Sri Lanka by Headey, Derek D., van Asselt, Joanna, Ecker, Olivier, Balié, Jean

“…Since late 2022, a bailout package by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and policy reforms have steadied Sri Lanka’s macroeconomy, though the ordinary citizen remains far poorer than she was before the crisis. …”
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