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Assets at marriage in rural Ethiopia
This paper contributes to the economic analysis of marriage and the family by examining and analyzing the relative importance of potential determinants of assets brought to marriages in rural Ethiopia. One potential determinant is assortative matching, whereby the rich marry the rich and the poor marry the poor, generating a positive correlation between assets brought to marriage by both spouses. Another determinant explored is compensating parental transfers at marriage, whereby parents reduce assets transferred to their marrying children if their spouses bring more.
Land redistribution, tenure insecurity, and intensity of production
This study analyzes the determinants of land tenure insecurity and its impact on intensity of use of purchased farm inputs among households in Southern Ethiopia. Seventeen percent of the households stated that they were tenure insecure. The feeling of tenure insecurity could be caused by the land redistribution policy in Ethiopia where household size has been the main criterion used for land allocation after the land reform in 1975. This would imply that land rich households should be more tenure insecure.
Evaluating the Mexico city policy
US development assistance represents a significant source of funding for many population programs in poor countries. The Mexico City policy, known derisively as the global gag rule, restricts activities of foreign nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that receive such assistance. The intent of the policy is to reduce the use of abortion in developing countries—a policy that is born entirely of US domestic politics and that turns on and off depending on the political party in power.
The dragon and the elephant
China’s and India’s rapid rise in the global arena has not only captured the attention of the world but has also set into motion a rethinking of the very paradigm of economic development....Today, China and India together account for 40 percent of the world’s population. Both have implemented a series of economic reforms in the past two and half decades: China initiated this process at the end of the 1970s, while India began in the early 1990s. These reforms have led to rapid economic growth, with a growth rate of 8–9 percent per annum in China and 6–7 percent per annum in India.
IFPRI Forum: Squeezing the most out of scarce water resources
CONTENTS:; Renewed Policy Action in South Asia; Strengthening Ties with the African Union; Millions Fed: Proven Successes in Agricultural Development; Interview with Fazle Hasan Abed; IFPRI Wins COM+ Communication Award; Strengthening Women’s Assets; A Winning Proposition
Growth and poverty reduction impacts of public investments in agriculture and rural areas
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Socio-economic differentials in child stunting are consistently larger in urban than rural areas
Urban-rural comparisons of childhood undernutrition suggest that urban populations are better-off than rural populations. However, these comparisons could mask the large differentials that exist among socioeconomic groups in urban areas. Data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for 11 countries from three regions were used to test the hypothesis that intra-urban differentials in child stunting were greater than intra-rural differentials, and that the prevalence of stunting among the urban and the rural poor was equally high.
Public private partnerships for irrigation: Expanding access or increasing inequality
Public Private Partnerships for irrigation and otherdevelopment is becoming a widely accepted model forfinancing future agricultural and overall economic development and was part of the ‘toolkit’ of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development that took place in Addis Ababa in July 2015 to approve a framework for financially supporting the Sustainable Development Goals and the post-2015 Agenda.
Childhood shocks, safety nets and cognitive skills: Panel data evidence from rural Ethiopia
Using child-level panel data from rural areas of Ethiopia, this paper analyzes effects of both economic and non-economic shocks on child cognition skills measured after the early childhood age window.
Climatic variability and cooperation in rangeland management
In this paper, we develop an empirical model of an agro-pastoral system subject to high climatic risk to test the impact of rainfall variability on livestock densities, land allocation patterns and herd mobility observed at the community level. Also, because grazing land is a common-pool resource, we determine the impact of cooperation on these decision variables.