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International Food Policy Research Institute
Nonprofit•Washington 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: In this paper, the authors focus on the hydrological impacts of RWH for recharge at the local (individual structure) and watershed scale in rural areas, and propose some evaluation criteria to assess the local and watershed-scale impacts of watershed development.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the effect of intergovernmental and other transfers on local governments' incentives to collect internally generated revenues and funds (IGF) and found that despite an incentive scheme built into one of the major intergovernmental grants, the flow of all grants taken together discourages, rather than encourages, IGF.
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TL;DR: Increasing food prices will make fighting micronutrient malnutrition in developing countries more difficult, and in societies where preference is given to males in the intrahousehold distribution of nonstaple foods, this objective will be even more challenging.
Abstract: BackgroundThe recent rise in agricultural commodity prices has been dramatic, and food prices are likely to follow an upward trend, at least in the medium term. Moreover, the recent financial crisis has also lowered incomes and increased food prices. Not only does this reduce dietary quality, but expenditures for health, sanitation, and education will decline, all of which will have a detrimental effect on health and nutrition outcomes.ObjectiveTo provide some perspectives on the role of major socioeconomic factors in driving health and nutrition outcomes.MethodsWe use demand elasticity parameters estimated from household-level survey data to simulate an increase in food prices, which is then mapped into energy and nutrient intakes. Furthermore, we also use house-hold-level data to analyze the implications of unequal intrahousehold distribution of food for the nutritional status of adult women and female children.ResultsA 50% increase in food prices results in a decrease in energy intake of 5% to 15% and ...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an approach to reconcile household surveys and national accounts data by using the information provided by the National Accounts data to re-estimate the household weights used in the survey so that the survey results are consistent with the aggregate data.
Abstract: This paper presents an approach to reconciling household surveys and national accounts data. The problem is how to use the information provided by the national accounts data to re-estimate the household weights used in the survey so that the survey results are consistent with the aggregate data. The estimation approach uses an estimation criterion based on an entropy measure of information. The survey household weights are treated as a prior. New weights are estimated that are close to the prior and that are also consistent with the additional information. This approach is implemented to reconcile household survey data and macro data for Madagascar. The results indicate that the approach is powerful and flexible, supporting the efficient use of information from a variety of sources to reconcile data at different levels of aggregation in a consistent framework.
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TL;DR: In this article, a range of tariff-cutting formulas such as the "Swiss" formula have been surveyed and examined under the Doha Development Agenda, with a focus on tariff escalation and peaks.
Abstract: Most of the large tariff reductions achieved in multilateral trade negotiations have involved tariff-cutting formulas such as the 'Swiss' formula. Wide variations in initial tariff rates between active participants, however, call for new approaches under the Doha Development Agenda. This Paper surveys a range of formula options and examines both targeted and flexible applications of the Swiss formula that target tariff escalation and peaks, and would allow policymakers to directly target how far they will move towards free trade, while providing some flexibility for trading off reductions in peak tariffs against reductions in lower-tariff sectors.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Michael B. Zimmermann | 83 | 437 | 23563 |
Kenneth H. Brown | 79 | 353 | 23199 |
Thomas Reardon | 79 | 285 | 25458 |
Marie T. Ruel | 77 | 300 | 22862 |
John Hoddinott | 75 | 357 | 21372 |
Mark W. Rosegrant | 73 | 315 | 22194 |
Agnes R. Quisumbing | 72 | 311 | 18433 |
Johan F.M. Swinnen | 70 | 570 | 20039 |
Stefan Dercon | 69 | 259 | 17696 |
Jikun Huang | 69 | 430 | 18496 |
Gregory J. Seymour | 66 | 385 | 17744 |
Lawrence Haddad | 65 | 243 | 24931 |
Rebecca J. Stoltzfus | 61 | 224 | 13711 |
Ravi Kanbur | 61 | 498 | 19422 |
Ruth Meinzen-Dick | 61 | 237 | 13707 |