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poverty. In short run, the oil-biofuels nexus was clearly the driving force behind the surge in food prices, but export … sharply in many countries, and that global poverty levels have increased markedly. The good news is that the supply response … clear that additional people will fall into poverty and become food insecure. Lastly, the global food system is …
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This study provides an independent external assessment of the impact of IFPRI’s work in Ethiopia during 1995–2010. From 1995 to 2004, nearly all of IFPRI’s Ethiopia work was undertaken by Washington-based research teams working on specific themes under various “global...
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"This paper takes a local perspective on global food price shocks by analyzing food price transmission between regional markets in Ghana. It also assesses the impacts of differential local food price increases on various household groups. Taking the recent global food crisis as an example, we...
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transformed into poverty reduction. The key obstacles preventing large-scale escape from poverty are very high population growth …
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particularly erratic, and while the incidence of poverty has declined, it still remains high. The Malawian government, within the …, simply achieving the CAADP target of six percent will not be sufficient to halve poverty by 2015, i.e. achieving the first … the poverty line by 2015 and significantly improve the well-being of both rural and urban households." from authors …
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"Uganda has experienced rapid economic growth and poverty reduction over the past decade but has failed to …, out-migration and urban-led growth centered in Kampala will be insufficient to significantly reduce poverty in northern …
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The recent global food and financial crises have reversed the last decade's progress in reducing hunger and poverty …
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This paper investigates the effects of oil financed public investment on poverty using a dynamic multisectoral general … which favor nontradable activities over export agriculture and manufacturing thereby increasing rural and national poverty … growth, and poverty is less straightforward than simple models of the resource curse suggest. Taking Ghana as a stylized …
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