- 2017-02-20 Stylized facts drive research agendas and policy debates. Yet robust stylized facts are hard to come by, and when available, often outdated. The 12 papers in this Special Issue revisit conventional wisdom on African agriculture and its farmers’ livelihoods using nationally representative surveys...
- The Living Standards Measurement Study - Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) is a household survey project established with a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and implemented by the LSMS team. Recognizing that existing agricultural data in the region suffers from...
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Connecting practice and research ISSN1755-1978 (Print) |1755-1986 (Online) Since 1990,Enterprise Development & Microfinance(EDM)has offered practice-based insights into the role of markets, enterprises and financial services in reducing poverty and stimulating economic development. This...
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The case for investing in nutrition is clear. Poor nutrition during the first 1,000 days—from pregnancy through a child’s second birthday—can cause life-long and irreversible damage, with consequences at the individual, community, and national level. Multi-sectoral Approaches to Nutrition: When a...
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The Rural Solutions Portal is a web-based knowledge-sharing platform that collects rural development solutions.These areinnovations, technologies, processes and methodologies for the rural world. It was set up byInternational Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)and seeded with a number of...
- 2014-11-20 The weight of literature suggests that improving economic infrastructure can boost economic growth. No country has sustained rapid growth without considerable public investment in infrastructure. However, while investment in infrastructure is a necessary condition for economic growth, it is not,...
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Development analysts tend to give short shrift to the seemingly minor bureaucratic hitches faced by practitioners - those who design, manage, implement, and evaluate aid projects. Often critical of foreign aid either for its apparent ineffectiveness at alleviating poverty or its purported...
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One of the greatest challenges of the 21st century will be to lift 3 billion people from poverty - and assist billions more living on its cusp - against a backdrop of sever natural resource degradation. With this the lundamental connections between human security and natural resource integrity...
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What are the sources for economic development and long-term growth? This book combines the best available cross-sectional data from Africa, Asia, and Latin America with appropriate theological tools including Millenium Development goals, current microeconomic policies, concise treatment of the...
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This book is the writing of a unique contemporary pioneer in the effort to humanize modern science and technology. Henderson challenges us all by her thoughtful dedication to conceptualizing new ways to accomplish old objectives.