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Luc Christiaensen
Researcher at World Bank
Publications - 173
Citations - 9141
Luc Christiaensen is an academic researcher from World Bank. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poverty & Agriculture. The author has an hindex of 41, co-authored 163 publications receiving 8055 citations. Previous affiliations of Luc Christiaensen include World Bank Group & Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
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Rural Push, Urban Pull and... Urban Push? New Historical Evidence from Developing Countries
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used historical data on urban birth and death rates for 7 countries from Industrial Europe (1800-1910) and 33 developing countries (1960-2010) to show that many cities of to-day's developing world are "mushroom cities" vs. the "killer cities" of In-rial Europe; fertility is high, while mortality is much lower.
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Greening China's rural energy : new insights on the potential of smallholder biogas
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a preliminary assessment of biogas use by smallholder farmers in rural China, using data collected from 2,700 households in five provinces, and find that user satisfaction is high, and environmental and economic benefits appear tangible.
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Revisiting the Global Food Architecture: Lessons from the 2008 Food Crisis
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that to safeguard the strengths of the current system, four failures in market functioning and policymaking need to be addressed and propose a market-based food security system is only sustainable given well functioning national social safety nets.
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Schools, Household, Risk, and Gender: Determinants of Child Schooling in Ethiopia ∗
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of adverse income shocks on gender-differentiated child schooling outcomes was examined and the relationship between investments in child schooling and key factors related to household characteristics, supply and quality of schooling, and income shocks was highlighted.
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Gauging the welfare effects of shocks in rural Tanzania
TL;DR: In this article, household surveys in rural Kilimanjaro and Ruvuma, two cash-crop-growing regions in Tanzania that experienced a precipitous coffee price decline around the turn of the millennium, identified health and drought shocks as well as commodity price declines as major risk factors.