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International Food Policy Research Institute

NonprofitWashington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
About: International Food Policy Research Institute is a nonprofit organization based out in Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Food security & Agriculture. The organization has 1217 authors who have published 4952 publications receiving 218436 citations.


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TL;DR: For much of the post-WWII period, governments in rich and poor countries alike have increased public spending on, and performance of, agricultural research as mentioned in this paper, focusing on the public and rapidly evolving, private roles in financing agricultural R&D, and the international dimensions of these funding and policy issues.

126 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the impact of migration and remittances on asset holdings, consumption expenditures, and credit constraint status of households in origin communities, using a unique longitudinal data set from Bukidnon, Philippines.
Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of migration and remittances on asset holdings, consumption expenditures, and credit constraint status of households in origin communities, using a unique longitudinal data set from Bukidnon, Philippines. Taking into account the endogeneity of the number of migrants and remittances received, a larger number of migrant children reduces the values of nonland assets and total expenditures per adult equivalent. However, remittances have a positive impact on housing, consumer durables, nonland assets, total expenditures (per adult equivalent), and educational expenditures, enabling asset accumulation and investment in human capital. Neither migration nor remittances affects current credit constraint status.

126 citations

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TL;DR: This article conducted a randomized survey experiment of four different household definitions in Mali to examine the implications for household-level statistics, and found that additional keywords in definitions increase rather than decrease household size and significantly alters household composition.

126 citations

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TL;DR: Poor maternal schooling was a main constraint for child feeding, healthseeking and hygiene practices in Accra, but the lack of household resources was a constraint only for health seeking and hygiene.
Abstract: Life in urban areas presents special challenges for maternal child care practices. Data from a representative quantitative survey of households with children < 3 y of age in Accra, Ghana were used to test a number of hypothesized constraints to child care including various maternal (anthropometry, education, employment, marital status, age and ethnic group) and household-level factors (income, availability of food, quality of housing and asset ownership, availability of services, household size and crowding). Three care indices were created as follows: 1) a child feeding index; 2) a preventive health seeking index; and 3) a hygiene index. The first two indices were based on data from maternal recall; the hygiene index was based on spot-check observations of proxies of hygiene behaviors. Multivariate analyses (ordinary least-squares regression for the child feeding index and ordered probit for the two other indices) showed that maternal schooling was the most consistent constraint to all three categories of child care practices. None of the household-level characteristics were associated with child feeding practices, but household socioeconomic factors were associated with better preventive health seeking and hygiene behaviors. Thus, poor maternal schooling was a main constraint for child feeding, health seeking and hygiene practices in Accra, but the lack of household resources was a constraint only for health seeking and hygiene. The programmatic implications of these findings for interventions in nutrition education and behaviors in Accra are discussed.

125 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors used data collected in rural Egypt to estimate a micro-level model of the economic and demographic determinants of international migration This model uses predicted income functions to establish origin incomes (incomes excluding remittances).
Abstract: This study uses data collected in rural Egypt to estimate a micro‐level model of the economic and demographic determinants of international migration This model uses predicted income functions to establish origin incomes (incomes excluding remittances) Three findings are noteworthy First, the results suggest that education may not necessarily be positively correlated with migration Second, the data indicate that the relationship between income and migration is that of a flat, inverted U‐shaped curve Third, when the combined effects of income and land are considered, males from poor and landless households have the highest propensity to migrate Poverty and landlessness combine to push rural Egyptians to work abroad

125 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Michael B. Zimmermann8343723563
Kenneth H. Brown7935323199
Thomas Reardon7928525458
Marie T. Ruel7730022862
John Hoddinott7535721372
Mark W. Rosegrant7331522194
Agnes R. Quisumbing7231118433
Johan F.M. Swinnen7057020039
Stefan Dercon6925917696
Jikun Huang6943018496
Gregory J. Seymour6638517744
Lawrence Haddad6524324931
Rebecca J. Stoltzfus6122413711
Ravi Kanbur6149819422
Ruth Meinzen-Dick6123713707
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
202321
202267
2021351
2020330
2019367
2018272