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Publisher: International Food Policy Research Insitute
Keywords: research, highlights, years, ifpri, frontiers, food, poor, expanding, policy
Number of Pages: 253
Published: 2005-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0896297470
ISBN-13: 9780896297470

Author: Emmanuel Skoufias
Publisher: International Food Policy Research Institute
Keywords: research, food, policy, institute, international, ifpri, report, progresa, welfare, rural, households, mexico, impacts
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2005-06-16
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 0896291421
ISBN-13: 9780896291423

PROGRESA is one of the Mexican government’s major programs aimed at developing the human capital of poor households. In early 1998, IFPRI was asked to assist Mexico’s government to determine if PROGRESA was functioning as it was intended to. This research report synthesizes IFPRI’s findings about PROGRESA’s impact and operation. The majority of IFPRI’s findings suggest that PROGRESA’s combination of education, health, and nutrition interventions into one integrated package has had a significant positive impact on the welfare and human capital of poor rural f

Authors:Ephraim Nkonya, John Pender, Pamela Jagger, Dick Sser
Publisher: International Food Policy Research Institute
Keywords: research, report, policy, institute, ifpri, food, international, uganda, land, sustainable, management, poverty, reduction, strategies
Number of Pages: 148
Published: 2004-09-16
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 0896291367
ISBN-13: 9780896291362

In Uganda, where soil erosion and depletion of soil nutrients are widespread, land degradation is a major cause of declining productivity and increasing poverty. This study analyzes the effects of households’ income strategies and land management practices in Uganda on agricultural production, household income, and land degradation. It also examines the impacts of policies and programs on income strategies and land management decisions, and assesses the trade-offs and complementarities among different agricultural and rural development objectives. The research is based on a survey of 107

Authors:Shenggen Fan, Linxiu Zhang, Xiaobo Zhang,
Publisher: International Food Policy Research Institute
Keywords: research, food, policy, institute, report, ifpri, international, investments, poverty, inequality, rural, china, public, role, growth
Number of Pages: 84
Published: 2002-05-15
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 0896291286
ISBN-13: 9780896291287

In the past two decades, China has achieved world renown for reducing rural poverty. However, it is becoming harder to reduce poverty and inequality further in China, even though its economy continues to grow. This report compares the impact specific rural public investments can have on promoting growth and reducing poverty and inequality. Returns to these investments are calculated for the nation as a whole and for three economic zones in the west, central, and coastal regions of the country. Government expenditures that have the highest impact on poverty and growth include education, agricul