Authors:Julian M. Alston, Connie Chan-Kang, Michele C. Marra
Publisher: International Food Policy Research Institute
Keywords: research, report, international, food, institute, policy, herculem, pede, rates, analysis, return, agricultural, amp, meta
Number of Pages: 148
Published: 2000-06-01
List price: $4.50
ISBN-10: 0896291162
ISBN-13: 9780896291164

Evidence has shown high rates of return to agricultural research, but reported rates remain controversial. This study represents the first attempt to take a comprehensive look at all the available evidence on rates of return to investments in agricultural R&D since 1953, and the only attempt to do so in a formal statistical fashion. (148 pages)

Authors:Caesar B. Cororaton, David Orden,
Publisher: International Food Policy Research Institute
Keywords: effects, rural, urban, poverty, linkages, intersectoral, cotton, textile, economy, pakistan
Number of Pages: 107
Published: 2008-12-31
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 0896291677
ISBN-13: 9780896291676

Pakistan’s cotton, textile, and apparel industries are key sectors of the nation’s economy; their performance can contribute to either a rise or fall in poverty. These vital industries have faced a variety of challenges and opportunities in recent years, including world cotton price instability, liberalization of the multilateral clothing and textile trade, and sharp swings in the Pakistani macroeconomic situation. Using a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model and drawing on a national survey of Pakistani households, the authors of this report evaluate the consequences of seve

Author: Anthony M Tang
Publisher: International Food Policy Research Institute
Keywords: food, research, international, policy, institute, report, china, production, people, republic
Number of Pages: 179
Published: 1980
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0896290174
ISBN-13: 9780896290174

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: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

Author: Yair Mundlak
Publisher: International Food Policy Research Institute
Keywords: research, international, food, policy, institute, report, intersectoral, mobility, agricultural, growth, factor
Number of Pages: 138
Published: 1979
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0896290077
ISBN-13: 9780896290075

Authors:Finn Tarp, Henning Tarp Jensen, Sherman Robinson, Ras
Publisher: International Food Policy Research Institute
Keywords: research, food, policy, institute, report, international, perspective, development, challenge, mozambique, economywide, facing
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2002-12-15
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 0896291316
ISBN-13: 9780896291317

This study responds to some of Mozambique’s basic development challenges and provides qualitative and quantitative insights for policymaking from an economywide perspective. The report highlights the importance of agricultural development showing agriculture’s large sectoral multiplier effects and that applying scarce capital to agriculture is generally more effective than applying it to industry and services. A novel CGE model is developed and used in a series of analyses focused on the impact and design of economic policy. Issues addressed are aid dependency, biases in price ince