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Policies for a Better-fed World
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A wide range of interventions, from subsidized grains all the way to conditions on nutrition in conditional cash transfers, have either been tried or put in place in different countries in order to fight under-nutrition.Abstract:
A wide range of interventions, from subsidized grains all the way to conditions on nutrition in conditional cash transfers, have either been tried or put in place in different countries in order to fight under-nutrition. A number of important policy experiments in recent years, directly or indirectly, offer important insights into how best to design these interventions. This essay is an attempt to pull together some of those insights, with the aim of saying something about what the optimal design should look like.read more
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Handbook of development economics
Hollis B. Chenery,T. N. Srinivasan,Jere R. Behrman,T. Paul Schultz,John Strauss,Dani Rodrik,Mark R. Rosenzweig +6 more
TL;DR: The contribution of endogenous growth theory to the analysis of development problems: an assessment (P. Bardhan et al. as discussed by the authors ) is discussed in detail in Section II.1.
Reseña: Poor economics. A radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty.
TL;DR: Banerjee and Duflo as discussed by the authors presented a radical re-thinking of the way to fight global poverty by Abhijit V. Banerjee, and Esther Duflo.
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IFAD RESEARCH SERIES 18 - Do agricultural support and cash transfer programmes improve nutritional status?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined previous reviews of the impact of these two programs and compared the evidence between the two, finding that although there are about the same number of programmes of each type, many more papers have been written about the cash transfer programmes than the agricultural programmes.
What is wrong with self- targeting?
TL;DR: Self-targeting (ST) is a method used to allocate social transfers toward specific households as mentioned in this paper, which is an alternative to classical targeting (T) based on selecting specific areas or villages, selecting specific categories of households, or relying on the persons in charge of local communities.
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Conditional cash transfers : reducing present and future poverty
Ariel Fiszbein,Norbert Schady,Francisco H. G. Ferreira,Margaret Grosh,Niall Keleher,Pedro Olinto,Emmanuel Skoufias +6 more
TL;DR: Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are programs that transfer cash, generally to poor households, on the condition that those households make pre specified investments in the human capital of their children.
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Grandmothers and Granddaughters: Old‐Age Pensions and Intrahousehold Allocation in South Africa
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of a large cash transfer program in South Africa on children's nutritional status and investigates whether the gender of the recipient affects that impact. But no similar effect is found for pensions received by men.
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The Economic Lives of the Poor
Abhijit Banerjee,Esther Duflo +1 more
TL;DR: Survey data is used from 13 countries to document the economic lives of the poor or the extremely poor and their patterns of consumption and income generation as well as their access to markets and publicly provided infrastructure.
Thinking Small: A Review of Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
Abhijit Banerjee,Esther Duno +1 more
TL;DR: Banerjee and Duflo as mentioned in this paper pointed out that life for the poor is a much more perilous adventure, denied many of the cushions and advantages that are routinely provided to the more affluent: if they do not have a piped water supply the poor cannot benefit from chlorination; if they cannot afford ready-made breakfast cereals they cannot gain the enriched vitamins and other nutrients; they are routinely denied access to markets; and, they get negative interest rates on their savings, while exorbitant rates are charged on their loans.
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A multifaceted program causes lasting progress for the very poor: Evidence from six countries
Abhijit Banerjee,Esther Duflo,Nathanael Goldberg,Dean Karlan,Robert Darko Osei,William Parienté,Jeremy Shapiro,Bram Thuysbaert,Christopher Udry +8 more
TL;DR: It is established that a multifaceted approach to increasing income and well-being for the ultrapoor is sustainable and cost-effective.