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Poverty and Access to Roads in Papua New Guinea
John Gibson,Scott Rozelle +1 more
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This article is published in Economic Development and Cultural Change.The article was published on 2003-10-01. It has received 247 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Poverty.read more
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Heights and Human Welfare: Recent Developments and New Directions
TL;DR: In the last 25 years, approximately 325 publications on stature have appeared in the social sciences, which is more than a fourfold increase in the rate of production relative to the period 1977-1994 as discussed by the authors.
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A global map of roadless areas and their conservation status
Pierre L. Ibisch,Monika T. Hoffmann,Stefan G. Kreft,Guy Pe'er,Guy Pe'er,Vassiliki Kati,Vassiliki Kati,Lisa Biber-Freudenberger,Dominick A. DellaSala,Mariana M. Vale,Mariana M. Vale,Peter Hobson,Peter Hobson,Nuria Selva +13 more
TL;DR: Applying a 1-kilometer buffer to all roads is presented and a global map of roadless areas and an assessment of their status, quality, and extent of coverage by protected areas are presented to halt their continued loss.
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Heights and human welfare: Recent developments and new directions
TL;DR: In the last 25 years, approximately 325 publications on stature have appeared in the social sciences, which is more than a fourfold increase in the rate of production relative to the period 1977-1994 as mentioned in this paper.
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Part II: Policy instruments for sustainable road transport
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider three types of policies: physical policies, soft policies, and knowledge policies, which aim to bring about changes in consumers' and firms' behaviour, but in different ways.
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Infrastructure and growth in developing countries : recent advances and research challenges
TL;DR: A survey of recent research on the economics of infrastructure in developing countries can be found in this paper, where energy, transport, telecommunications, water and sanitation are considered, as well as the linkages between infrastructure and economic growth.
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Poverty and policy
Michael Lipton,Martin Ravallion +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors point out that typically the highest incidence and severity of poverty are still found in rural areas, especially if ill-watered, and that the policies pursued by most developing countries up to the mid-1980s have been biased against the rural sector in various ways.
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Government Spending, Growth and Poverty in Rural India
TL;DR: In this paper, a simultaneous equation model was developed to estimate the direct and indirect effects of different types of government expenditure on rural poverty and productivity growth in India using state-level data for 1970-93.
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Poverty and household size
Peter Lanjouw,Martin Ravallion +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors find that the correlation between poverty and household size vanishes in Pakistan when the size elasticity of the cost of living is about 0.6, which is the elasticity implied by a modified version of the food-share method of setting scales.
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Access to Markets and the Benefits of Rural Roads
TL;DR: In this paper, Jacoby et al. developed and implemented a method for nonparametrically estimating the benefits from road projects at the household level by examining how the value of farmland falls with distance from agricultural markets.
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How infrastructure and financial institutions affect agricultural output and investment in India
TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantify the interrelationships among the investment decisions of government, financial institutions and farmers and their joint effects on agricultural investment and output, using district-level time-series data from India.