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Channing Arndt, "LAUNCH EVENT: 2019 Global Food Policy Report"
No full textChanning Arndt SPECIAL EVENT LAUNCH EVENT: 2019 Global Food Policy Report Washington, DC, USA MAR 27, 2019 - 12:15 PM TO 01:45 PM ED
Trade Policy Reform and the Missing Revenue †
No full textIn many African countries, large discrepancies exist between revenues implied by published tariff rates multiplied by estimated import volumes and actual receipts. We develop a stylised trade model where average and marginal tariff rates diverge and incorporate insights from this model into a computable general equilibrium model of an African economy (Mozambique) to study the implications of trade policy reform. Model simulations indicate that lowering tariff rates and reducing duty-free importation in a manner that maintains official revenue benefit nearly everyone. The main exception is those who benefited from duty-free imports in the base. Copyright 2008 The author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Centre for the Study of African Economies. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: [email protected], Oxford University Press.
Faster Thank You Think: The Renewable Energy Revolution and Developing Countries
No full textChanning Arndt POLICY SEMINAR Faster than you think: Renewable Energy and Developing Countries JUN 13, 2019 - 09:30 AM TO 10:30 AM ED
Foresight and One CGIAR
No full textChanning Arndt POLICY SEMINAR Socio-Technical Innovation Bundles for Agri-Food Systems Transformation: Implications for research and the One CGIAR agenda MAR 19, 2021 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM ED
The Future of African Agriculture
No full textChanning Arndt COUNTRY WORKSHOP The Knowledge Lab on Climate Resilient Food Systems: An analytical support facility to achieve the SDGs Co-Organized by IFPRI and AGRA FEB 7, 2019 - 08:30 AM TO 05:55 PM EA
The Knowledge Lab on Climate-Resilient Food Systems
No full textChanning Arndt COUNTRY WORKSHOP The Knowledge Lab on Climate Resilient Food Systems: An analytical support facility to achieve the SDGs Co-Organized by IFPRI and AGRA FEB 7, 2019 - 08:30 AM TO 05:55 PM EA
Conclusions and Looking Forward
No full textThe research work sought to contribute to improving the practice of measuring poverty and wellbeing in developing country contexts. The contributions include: two sets of software code designed to provide an advanced yet flexible basis for consumption (PLEASe) and multidimensional (EFOD) poverty analysis; a review of the theoretical foundations underlying the methods expressed in the code; discussion of practical issues encountered in the analysis of poverty and wellbeing both in general terms and in the eleven country cases included; a synthesis of general lessons emerging from the case studies as a group and an extension to the analysis of inequality. This book was not designed to suggest an exact cookbook approach to conducting analysis or to permit analyses to be produced more quickly. Rather, the analytical packages are meant to permit the analyst to spend more time thinking, cross-checking, and judging and less time on mechanical tasks
Absolute poverty lines
No full textPrivate consumption capabilities form only one facet of comprehensive living standards assessments, but they are an important facet whose measurement should be done well. Measurement is complex due to a multitude of methodological choices, which often interact with imperfect data and a desire for comparability through time. This paper outlines ideas underpinning these choices with particular attention to the tensions between consistency and specificity. We also highlight a series of limitations associated with typical cost of basic needs approaches. Finally, we reaffirm that a 'sensibly eclectic' approach, employing multiple methods, is the best available mode for addressing these limitations
Synthesis
No full textThis synthesis chapter seeks to draw general lessons from the case studies presented in the book. It does not include a review or summary of each chapter. Instead, we revert to themes that emerged from earlier in the book. Specifically, we argue that appropriately assessing living standards is challenging, and focus on the different nature of the challenges for consumption poverty line estimation and multidimensional poverty measurement. The six case studies uniformly indicate that the process of drawing appropriate absolute poverty lines is not straightforward and cannot be done mechanically. This is so principally due to five key factors: heterogeneity, volatility, vulnerability, data, and theory. The first three factors are usefully grouped together. In all of the case countries considered, poor people are heterogeneous, frequently live in environments with strikingly high levels of volatility, and are, almost by definition, vulnerable to shocks
Measuring Poverty and Wellbeing in Developing Countries
No full textDetailed analyses of poverty and wellbeing in developing countries, based on large-scale, nationally representative household surveys, have been ongoing for more than three decades. The large majority of developing countries now conduct on a regular basis a variety of household surveys—income, consumption, health, demographics, labour force, household enterprise, and others. And the information base in developing countries with respect to poverty and wellbeing has improved dramatically. Nevertheless, appropriate measurement of poverty remains complex and controversial; this chapter lays out for the reader the issues and challenges. This is particularly true in developing countries where (i) the stakes with respect to poverty reduction are high; (ii) the determinants of living standards are often volatile; and (iii) related information bases, while much improved, are often characterized by significant non-sample error
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