- Project Papers and Notes“The estimated average leakage in the Vulnerable Group Development (VGD) programme due to short ration and undercoverage is 8 percent of the total wheat allotment. These losses are low by international and Bangladesh standards, and are due, ...
- IFPRI Briefs“…IFPRI examined the effectiveness of community-based targeting following three recent emergencies: the 1998 floods in Bangladesh; the 2002 drought in Ethiopia; and the 2001-02 failed maize harvest in Malawi.” — ...
- IFPRI Briefs“…IFPRI examined the effectiveness of community-based targeting following three recent emergencies: the 1998 floods in Bangladesh; the 2002 drought in Ethiopia; and the 2001-02 failed maize harvest in Malawi. All three cases show ...
- IFPRI BriefsThe International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) evaluated the FFE programme based on surveys of households and schools conducted in 2000. In 2003, IFPRI resurveyed the same households and schools to assess the impacts of the PES and ...
- Project Papers and NotesWhich social safety-net progammes reach poor households? How cost efficient are they? This research shows that public works programmes have great potential for targeting poor households. However there is a great variability in their performance. ...
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- IFPRI BriefsThe programme has a substantial positive impact on the diet of children. It also complements the basic livelihood strategies of poor urban women working outside the home.
- Project Papers and NotesWhich social safety-net progammes reach poor households? How cost efficient are they? This research shows that public works programmes have great potential for targeting poor households. However there is a great variability in their performance. ...
- IFPRI BriefsThe synergy between food assistance and market development contributed to avoiding a food-price crisis. In addition to being well targeted, timely, and efficiently administered, food assistance needs to reach the vulnerable in sufficient amounts ...
- IFPRI Briefs“…Workfare programmes have been used across Asia, Africa, and Latin America to provide the poor with income transfers, help them cope with income shocks, and create assets by constructing much-needed infrastructure-which, once built, ...
- IFPRI BriefsBoth food for work and free distributiona are reaching poor and vulnerable households ahd have a positive direct impact on weight-for-height. The benefits of the programmes vary depending on the sex of the child, and at times, the sex of ...
- IFPRI BriefsThe programme has a substantial positive impact on the diet of children. It also complements the basic livelihood strategies of poor urban women working outside the home.
- Project Papers and NotesBoth food for work and free distribution are reaching poor and vulnerable households ahd have a positive direct impact on weight-for-height. The benefits of the programmes vary depending on the sex of the child, and at times, the sex of ...
- IFPRI BriefsBoth food for work and free distributiona are reaching poor and vulnerable households ahd have a positive direct impact on weight-for-height. The benefits of the programmes vary depending on the sex of the child, and at times, the sex of ...
- IFPRI BriefsGiven the large amount of funds allocated to food-assisted Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition (MCHN) programmes. it is critical to improve their effectiveness. Operations research holds promise for helping achieve this goal. Effective ...
- IFPRI BriefsPoverty maps are easily used, easily understood, and objectively verifiable. Using them for politically sensitive decisions, such as where to locate food assistance projects, is likely more acceptable than basing such decisions on obscure and ...
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- IFPRI BriefsCapacity development is essential to participatory initiatives, especially given the recent trend toward decentralized governance in many developing countries. Communities need both the wherewithal to carry out development activities themselves, ...
- IFPRI BriefsUrban Challenges to Food and Nutrition Security
- IFPRI BriefsIFPRI examined the effectiveness of community-based targeting following three recent emergencies: the 1998 floods in Bangladesh; the 2002 drought in Ethiopia; and the 2001-02 failed maize harvest in Malawi.
- IFPRI BriefsPoverty maps are easily used, easily understood, and objectively verifiable. Using them for politically sensitive decisions, such as where to locate food assistance projects, is likely more acceptable than basing such decisions on obscure and ...
- IFPRI BriefsPoverty maps are easily used, easily understood, and objectively verifiable. Using them for politically sensitive decisions, such as where to locate food assistance projects, is likely more acceptable than basing such decisions on obscure and ...
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