1. Overview : handbook on food demand, supply, sustainability and security / Raghbendra Jha, Raghav Gaiha and Anil Deolalikar -- 2. The political economy of food security : a behavioral perspective / C. Peter Timmer -- 3. Shocks to the system : monitoring food security in a volatile world /...

The theme of this book is that economic growth is key, but institutions and other national and subnational attributes matter as well. They are critical to explaining differences in social development and poverty reduction across countries and subnational areas that cannot be accounted for by...

For the past decade, South Asian governments have been investing heavily to achieve the education millennium development goals (MDGs). The region has also made great progress in enrolling girls in both primary and secondary school. The rapid gains in enrollment have not been accompanied by...

Benefit-cost analysis and other forms of economic evaluation are powerful tools, encouraging the systematic collection and assessment of the evidence needed to support sound policy decisions. In low-and middle-income countries, where resources are very scarce and needs are very great, such...

"One of the key issues the world grappled with during Covid-19 was the distributional implications of lockdowns globally. The shadow of lockdown policies continues when nations still try to emerge out of the pandemic. Heterogeneity herein over time, country and even within nations in policy...

This paper studies the impact of co-residence with father-in-law and mother-in-law on female labor force participation (FLFP) and autonomy. We study this in the Indian context where patrilocality is common and women have limited mobility and autonomy, especially with a parent-in-law present in...

Untersuchungen des Arbeitsmarktes und des Heiratsmarktes in der Dritten Welt zeigen im allgemeinen eine hohe Korrelation zwischen Einkommen und Schulbildung bzw. ähnlicher Schulbildung der Frau verglichen mit dem Mann. Dennoch gibt es in beiden Fällen auch gravierende Abweichungen, die in...

Zahlreiche Studien belegen für die Dritte Welt einen engen positiven Zusammenhang zwischen Art und Dauer des Schulbesuchs, dem späteren Einkommen und der Dauer der Erwerbstätigkeit im Rahmen des formalen Arbeitsmarktes. Als Kritik an dieser Berechnung wird vor allem geäußert, daß die...