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Can crop purchase programs reduce poverty and improve welfare in rural communities? : evidence from the food reserve agency in Zambia
Fung, Winnie; Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis Saweda; Mason, Nicole - 2015
effects of the FRA's maize marketing activities on smallholder farm household welfare. Results suggest that FRA activities …
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Evaluating the long-run impact of an innovative anti-poverty program : evidence using household panel data
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Ara, Jinnat - 2016
-term impact on food security, household savings, assets and participation in microfinance. Participant women are less likely to be …
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Financial literacy and food security in extremely vulnerable households
Millimet, Daniel L.; McDonough, Ian K.; Fomby, Thomas B. - 2015
literacy as a potential salient determinant of household-level food security. In light of the recent financial crisis and the …
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Do households where women own land fare better for food security? : evidence for Tanzania
Burrone, Sara; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2023
This paper aims to study the relationship between women's land ownership and household food security in Tanzania, using … data from three waves of the Tanzanian National Panel Survey. The analysis focuses on the Household Dietary Diversity Scale …. Additionally, we examine the impact of the gendered division of crop cultivation on household food security, distinguishing between …
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Food security and wheat prices in Afghanistan : a distribution-sensitive analysis of household-level impacts
D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - 2012
We investigate the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally …
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Linkages between poverty and income inequality of urban-rural sector : a time series analysis of India's urban-based aspirations from 1951 to 1994
Kibriya, Shahriar; Bessler, David A.; Price, E. C. - In: Applied economics letters 26 (2019) 6, pp. 446-453
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Caste, ethnicity and poverty in rural India
Gang, Ira N.; Sen, Kunal; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002
This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC) and Schedule Tribe (ST) households with the non-scheduled population. The incidence of poverty among SC and ST households is significantly higher than non-scheduled households....
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Regional migration, insurance and economic shocks : evidence from Nicaraguax
Millán, Teresa Molina - 2015
household. Distinguishing by destination and economic activity I show that the level of insurance increases when migrants and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011387156
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Cognitive skills, noncognitive skills, and school-to-work transitions in rural China
Glewwe, Paul; Huang, Qiuqiong; Park, Albert - 2017
Economists have long recognized the important role of formal schooling and cognitive skills on labor market participation and wages. More recently, increasing attention has turned to the role of personality traits, or noncognitive skills. This study is among the first to examine how both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613141
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Does the Grameen Bank exert market power over borrowers?
Bairagi, Subir; Azzam, Azzeddine M. - In: Applied economics letters 21 (2014) 10/12, pp. 866-869
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