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Tanzania Economic Update, December 2019 : Transforming Agriculture - Realizing the Potential of Agriculture for Inclusive Growth and Poverty Reduction

World Bank Group - 2019

-income status by 2025. The government recognizes agriculture as central to realizing its objectives of socioeconomic development …, which are well-articulated in the Second Agriculture Sector Development Program (ASDP II). Among the goals of ASDP II are to … transform agriculture by promoting commercialization, prioritizing high-potential commodity value chains, and mobilizing capital …

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Agricultural Distortions, Poverty, and Inequality in South Africa

Harault, Nicolas - 2009

South Africa has rapidly reduced trade barriers since the end of Apartheid, yet agricultural production and exports … (CGE) and micro-simulation model of South Africa that is linked to the results of a global trade model. This framework is … used to examine the effects of eliminating global and domestic price distortions. Model results indicate that South Africa …

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Welfare and Poverty Effects of Global Agricultural and Trade Policies Using the Linkage Model

Anderson, Kym - 2009

primary agriculture than in the rest of the economy of developing countries, and earnings of unskilled workers more than of … (given that farm incomes are well below non-farm incomes in most developing countries and that agriculture there is intensive …

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Evolution of poor food access over the course of the conflict in the Republic of Yemen

Tandon, Sharad; Vishwanath, Tara - 2019

The Republic of Yemen has undergone a profound transformation following the escalation of conflict in March 2015. There has been an increase in violence, a disruption in supply chains due to a tightening of the ports, and a decline in the general economic climate that has left a large share of...

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Food prices, access to markets and child undernutrition in Ethiopia

Brenton, Paul; Nyawo, Mike - 2019

This paper looks at how changing food prices affect child undernutrition in Ethiopia. It derives height for age (stunting) and weight for height (wasting) as indicators of child undernutrition from the two most recent years of the Livings Standards Measurement Survey and utilizes market prices...

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Poverty impact of food price shocks and policies

Laborde Debucquet, David; Lakatos, Csilla; Martin, Will - 2019

In the event of large swings in world food prices, countries often intervene to dampen the impact of international food price spikes on domestic prices and to lessen the burden of adjustment on vulnerable population groups. While individual countries can succeed at insulating their domestic...

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Learning from the Mexican Experience with Taxes on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Energy-Dense Foods of Low Nutritional Value : Poverty and Social Impact Analysis

Bonilla-Chacin, Maria Eugenia - 2016

Faced with a large and increasing obesity epidemic, the Mexican Government in the last years has increased efforts to prevent and control it. In October 2013, Mexico's Congress passed legislation imposing taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and calorie-dense foods of low nutritional value....

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Poverty and Food Security in Afghanistan : Analysis Based on the National Risk and Vulnerability Assessment of 2007/08

Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Ministry of Economy - 2012

Afghanistan faces a severe problem of poor nutrition and food insecurity. Chronic malnutrition among Afghan children is one of the highest in the world. This report investigates the status of food insecurity in Afghanistan with a focus on mapping provincial differences and an emphasis on...

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Food Insecurity and Conflict : Applying the WDR Framework

Brinkman, Henk-Jan - 2010

This paper provides a synthetic overview of the link between food insecurity and conflict, addressing both traditional (civil and interstate war) and emerging (regime stability, violent rioting and communal conflict) threats to security and political stability. In addition, it addresses the...

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The changing way governments talk about poverty and inequality : evidence from two centuries of Latin American presidential speeches

Calvo-Gonzalez, Oscar; Eizmendi, Axel; Reyes, Germán - 2018

This study uses text mining techniques on almost 900 presidential "state-of-the-union"-type speeches from 10 Latin American countries from 1819 to 2016. The paper documents a sharp increase in recent decades in references to poverty and inequality. The study's long-term view shows that the way...

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