CASH TRANSFERS ENABLE HOUSEHOLDS TO COPE WITH AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AND PRICE SHOCKS: EVIDENCE FROM ZAMBIA [0.03%]
现金转移帮助家庭应对农业生产及价格冲击：来自赞比亚的证据
Kathleen Lawlor,Sudhanshu Handa,David Seidenfeld;Zambia Cash Transfer Evaluation Team
Kathleen Lawlor
Climate change is projected to dramatically disrupt rainfall patterns and agricultural yields in Sub-Saharan Africa. These shocks to food production can mire farming households in poverty traps. This study investigates whether unconditional...
Agricultural Transformation, Nutrition Transition and Food Policy in Africa: Preston Curves Reveal New Stylised Facts [0.03%]
非洲农业转型、营养转化与食品政策：普雷斯特曲线揭示新特征事实关系
William A Masters,Nathaniel Z Rosenblum,Robel G Alemu
William A Masters
This paper uses a Preston Curve approach to test for changes over time in agriculture, nutrition and food policy, comparing national averages in Africa and elsewhere at each level of national income per capita from the 1990s to the 2010s. O...
Relating Seasonal Hunger and Prevention and Coping Strategies: A Panel Analysis of Malawian Farm Households [0.03%]
马旺亚农户家庭中的季节性饥饿及其预防和应对策略的面板数据分析
C Leigh Anderson,Travis Reynolds,Joshua D Merfeld et al.
C Leigh Anderson et al.
Relative to chronic hunger, seasonal hunger in rural and urban areas of Africa is poorly understood. This paper examines the extent and potential correlates of seasonal hunger in Malawi using panel data from 2011-2013. We find that both urb...
Can Integrated Agriculture-Nutrition Programmes Change Gender Norms on Land and Asset Ownership? Evidence from Burkina Faso [0.03%]
包容性农业营养计划能改变性别规范并影响土地和资产的所有权吗？来自布基纳法索的证据
Mara van den Bold,Andrew Dillon,Deanna Olney et al.
Mara van den Bold et al.
This article uses a mixed-methods approach to analyse the impact of an integrated agriculture and nutrition programme in Burkina Faso on women's and men's assets, and norms regarding ownership, use and control of assets. We use a cluster-ra...
Enhancing Smallholder Access to Agricultural Machinery Services: Lessons from Bangladesh [0.03%]
提升小农获取农业机械服务的途径——来自孟加拉国的经验与启示
Khondoker A Mottaleb,Dil Bahadur Rahut,Akhter Ali et al.
Khondoker A Mottaleb et al.
Resource poor smallholders in developing countries often lack access to capital goods such as farm machinery. Enabling adequate access through machinery services can thereby significantly contribute to food security and farm incomes. At the...
Sanitation and Religion in South Asia: What Accounts for Differences across Countries? [0.03%]
南亚的卫生与宗教：各国之间存在差异的原因是什么？
Sangita Vyas,Dean Spears
Sangita Vyas
Exposure to open defecation has serious consequences for child mortality, health, and human capital development. South Asia has the highest rates of open defecation worldwide, and although the incidence declines as household income rises, d...
Well Begun, But Aiming Higher: A Review of Vietnam's Education Trends in the Past 20 Years and Emerging Challenges [0.03%]
良好的开端：越南过去二十年的教育趋势及面临的挑战
Hai-Anh H Dang,Paul W Glewwe
Hai-Anh H Dang
Given its modest position as a lower-middle income country, Vietnam stands out from the rest of the world with its remarkable performance on standardized test scores, school enrollment, and completed years of schooling. We provide an overvi...
Indigenous migration dynamics in the Ecuadorian Amazon: a longitudinal and hierarchical analysis [0.03%]
厄瓜多尔亚马逊地区的土著迁移动态：纵向和分层分析
Jason Davis,Samuel Sellers,Clark Gray et al.
Jason Davis et al.
Amazonian indigenous populations are approaching a critical stage in their history in which increasing education and market integration, rapid population growth and degradation of natural resources threaten the survival of their traditions ...
Spousal Bargaining Over Care for Elderly Parents in China: Imbalances in Sex Ratios Influence the Allocation of Support [0.03%]
中国夫妻就赡养年迈父母进行协商：性别比失衡影响了对父母的照料分配
Maria Porter
Maria Porter
Using a unique Chinese survey of parents and adult children, this paper examines how married children negotiate with their spouses for time devoted to caring for their own parents. Applying a collective bargaining framework, I show that the...
Widowhood, Socio-Economic Status, Health and Wellbeing in Low and Middle-Income Countries [0.03%]
低收入和中等收入国家中的寡妇生活：经济社会地位、健康与福祉的关系
Peter Lloyd-Sherlock,Barbara Corso,Nadia Minicuci
Peter Lloyd-Sherlock
Using data on women aged 50 and over from the WHO's Survey of Ageing and Adult Health for China, Ghana, India, the Russian Federation and South Africa (N=17,009), we assess associations between widowhood and socio-economic, health and quali...