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Agriculture, structural transformation and poverty reduction: Some new insights
No full textLuc Christiaensen Will Martin POLICY SEMINAR Agriculture, Structural Transformation and Poverty Reduction Some New Insights OCT 22, 2018 - 12:15 PM TO 01:45 PM ED
Cote d'Ivoire Jobs Diagnostic
No full textAfter a decade of crisis and stellar
economic growth over the past five years, Côte d’Ivoire has
now set its sight on becoming an emerging economy. Improving
prospects for productive employment will be essential for
socially sustainable growth and poverty reduction. The
"Cote d'Ivoire Jobs Diagnostic: Employment,
Productivity, and Inclusion for Poverty Reduction"
report provides a comprehensive and multi-sectoral empirical
analysis of employment challenges and opportunities to
inform strategies and policy actions in Côte d’Ivoire. The
report aims to expand policy discussions on employment from
a focus on the number of jobs and unemployment to a broader
attention on the quality, productivity and inclusiveness of
jobs. It makes the case for a jobs strategy with a sharper
poverty lens that would focus on raising labor productivity
in agriculture and informal off-farm employment to foster
structural transformation, while, in parallel, pursuing
longer-term goals of expanding the thin formal sector
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No full textCode and data used in "Consumption Sub-aggregates Should Not Be Used to Measure Poverty" by Luc Christiaensen, Ethan Ligon, and Thomas Sohneson
Consumption risk, technology adoption, and poverty traps : evidence from Ethiopia / Stefan Dercon and Luc Christiaensen
Get PDFChild growth, shocks, and food aid in rural Ethiopia
Get PDFOver the past decades child stunting in Ethiopia has persisted at alarming rates. While the country experienced several droughts during this period, it also received enormous amounts of food aid, leading some to question the effectiveness of food aid in reducing child malnutrition. Using nationally representative household surveys from 1995-96 and controlling for program placement, Yamano, Alderman, and Christiaensen find that children between 6 and 24 months experienced about 0.9 cm less growth over a six-month period in communities where half the crop area was damaged compared with those without crop damage. Food aid was also found to have a substantial effect on the growth of children in this age group. And on average, the total amount of food aid appeared to be sufficient to protect children against plot damage, an encouraging sign that food aid can act as an effective insurance mechanism, though its cost-effectiveness needs further investigation.Food&Nutrition Policy,Gender and Development,Development Economics&Aid Effectiveness,Food&Beverage Industry,School Health,School Health,Food&Beverage Industry,Food&Nutrition Policy,Development Economics&Aid Effectiveness,Poverty Lines
Authorship in the Interstices of History, Biography, Reality and Memory: Histoire(s) du cinéma and Cabra Marcado para Morrer
Get PDFEste artigo contrasta Histoire(s) du cinéma de Jean-Luc Godard e Cabra Marcado Para Morrer de Eduardo Coutinho, estão engajadas com a questão da autoria no cinema. Enquanto a imagem de Godard enfatiza a capacidade que tem um filme de transmitir a visão de mundo pessoal de um artista, a presença de Coutinho na tela funciona menos como um meio de subjetivar a obra do que como um catalizador instigando cetas reações nos "atores" filmados
Tracking Poverty Over Time in the Absence of Comparable Consumption Data
No full textTracking Poverty Over Time in the Absence of Comparable Consumption Data David Stifel and Luc Christiaensen Following the endorsement by the international community of the Millennium Development Goals, there has been an increasing demand for practical methods for steadily tracking poverty. The minimum data requirements for this methodology are the availability of a household budget survey and a series of surveys with a comparable set of asset data also contained in the budget survey. JEL codes: C81, I32 The worldwide endorsement of the Millennium Development Goals and the shift to results-based lending in supporting developing countries have intensified the importance of being able to reliably gauge the evolution of poverty. While the method is straightforward, the predicted evolution of poverty holds only under a series of stringent assumptions such as distribution-neutral growth, a correct attribution of sectoral GDP growth to households (World Bank 2005), and a close correspondence between growth observed in the national accounts and income or consumption growth measured in household surveys (Ravallion 2003; Deaton and Kozel 2005). The empirical application uses the asset information from the 1993, 1998, and 2003 Kenyan Demographic and Health Surveys and the consumption measure from the 1997 Welfare Monitoring Survey (WMS). 3 Tracking Wt by tracking xt requires essentially three steps: developing an accurate empirical model of ct as a function of xt; estimating ct k as a function of xt k, where k is a positive or negative integer; and generating an estimate of expected Wt k from the estimated ct k. 3. Comparison of these indicators across the population in rural areas, other urban localities, and Nairobi between 1993 and 2003 based on the Demographic and Health Surveys (table 4) shows substantial improvements in primary and secondary enrollment rates and stunting prevalence in rural areas, even stronger improvements in these indicators in Nairobi, and a mixed picture in other urban areas, with primary enrollment rates increasing, secondary enrollment rates falling marginally, and stunting prevalence increasing Further inspection indicates that their relative prices (in terms of the overall consumer price index) declined substantially, possibly because of technological innovation, trade liberalization, or exchange rate misalignment (in particular, real exchange rate overvaluation). Going forward, comparing economic asset-based poverty measures with those derived from household budget surveys using actual consumption data emerges as an important research agenda for applied economists to shed further light on the empirical validity of the stationarity assumption. var(b To obtain estimates of the expected welfare indicator in stage 2, a vector of t beta coefficients (bs) is first drawn from a multivariate normal distribution with a mean btGLS and variance covariance V(btGLS) and applied to the target 0 t data xt k to predict household log expenditures (xcht kbs)
The Determinants of Food Aid Provisions to Africa and the Developing World
Get PDFWe examine the supply-side and demand-side determinants of global bilateral food aid shipments between 1971 and 2008. First, we find that domestic food production in developing countries is negatively correlated with subsequent food aid receipts, suggesting that food aid receipt is partly driven by local food shortages. Interestingly, food aid from some of the largest donors is the least responsive to production shocks in recipient countries. Second, we show that U.S. food aid is partly driven by domestic production surpluses, whereas former colonial ties are an important determinant for European countries. Third, amongst recipients, former colonial ties are especially important for African countries. Finally, aid flows to countries with former colonial ties are less responsive to recipient production, especially for African countries.
Consumption risk, technology adoption, and poverty traps : evidence from Ethiopia
No full textStefan Dercon and Luc Christiaense
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