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  Targeting food insecure households: an Indian experiment

  Eldis Document Store, 2003

  This paper presents an alternative, participatory approach to the identification of food insecure households at the community level. This approach is introduced as a response to the different food assistance schemes currently implemented by the Government of India, which show a lacklustre performance due to inappropriate targeting.
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  Rethinking food aid to fight AIDS

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This paper from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) highlights the implications of the AIDS pandemic for food aid strategy and programming.
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  Food aid and child nutrition in rural Ethiopia

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This paper uses a unique panel data set from Ethiopia to examine the determinants of participation in and receipts of food aid through free distribution (FD) and food-for-work (FFW).
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  Risk sharing and public transfers

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2002

  This paper investigates public transfers in the form of food aid for farm households in Ethiopia to test for the presence of community risk-sharing arrangements.Findings include:both perfect risk-sharing and autarky are rejected, suggesting partial risk-sharing using informal transfersthere is evidence consistent with crowding out of informal insurance linked to food aid programmes
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  Poverty, institutions, peasant band conservation investment in Northern Ethiopia

  Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003

  This PhD thesis provides an econometric analysis of various aspects of the rural economy in Northern Ethiopia.The thesis consists of five papers:an in-depth analysis of poverty, its distribution, dynamics and its correlates within the framework of the role of economic reforms on poverty reduction in a remote, unstable and environmentally troubled regionlooks at the issue of the effi
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  Health, shocks and poverty persistence

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2003

  This paper, published by World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), reviews the evidence on the impact of droughts and other serious “shocks” (transitory events which worsen the economic situation of a household) on child and adult health, focusing particularly on Zimbabwe and Ethiopia.
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  From social assistance to social development: targeted education subsidies in developing countries

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2003

  A joint project of the Center for Global Development and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), this book compiles published and unpublished material on existing conditioned transfer for education (CTE) programs and evaluates their ability to advance poverty reduction and education goals.
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  Gender, resource management and livelihood security

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 1998

  This report looks at the roles which women and men play in resource management and food or livelihood security, in order to understand changing social relations, both within and between households.These preliminary discussions will be used to inform the broader objective of the study which will explore what effect changes in the gendered patterns of access to and control of resources has on food s
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  The maze of maize: improving input and output market access for poor smallholders in southern African region: the experience of Zambia and Malawi

  Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003

  This study evaluates the causes of the 2001-3 food crisis in Zambia and Malawi, looks at existing policies and makes recommendations to avoid future crises.The study differentiates causes of the crisis (the maize harvest shortfall in 2001, as well as to why the shortfall caused a food emergency) between: immediate causes, such as reduced plantings due to low food prices the p
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  Social protection in a crisis: Argentina’s plan Jefes y Jefas

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper assesses the impact of Argentina’s main social policy response to the severe economic crisis of 2002. The Jefes programme aimed to provide direct income support for families with dependents who had lost their main source of earnings due to the crisis. In order to assess the impact of the programme, the paper asks:who got assistance?

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