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The COVID-19 pandemic prompted social distancing, workplace closures, and restrictions on mobility and trade that had cascading effects on economic activity, food prices, and employment in low- and middle-income countries.
Climbing up the ladder and watching out for the fall: Poverty dynamics in rural Bangladesh
Cash transfers, migration, and gender norms
Although migration remains crucial for economic development, financial constraints may limit individual ability to migrate.
Data from 3 irrigation schemes in Mozambique reveal patterns consistent with water inefficiency. A feedback tool could visually communicate ways to conserve by varying water applications at each stage of the crop cycle.
In complex nutrition-sensitive interventions, separately identifying the effect of each programmatic component on the outcomes of interest can be challenging.
Synopsis: Ethiopia’s social protection program is associated with improved household resilience
We examine the implication of the Productive Safety Nets Program (PSNP) in Ethiopia on the economic resilience of rural households.
Post-harvest loss in Mozambique: Estimating maize loss in Manica and Zambezia provinces
In Mozambique, food security remains a key issue and the country suffers perennial food shortages, especially in the provinces of Manica,Tete, Sofala, Zambezia, Maputo and Gaza.
The impacts of COVID-19 on migrants, remittances, and poverty in China: A microsimulation analysis
Chinese migrant workers are very exposed to the shocks caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Falling remittances adversely affect their families who rely on remittance incomes.
The international community is facing considerable challenges today.
In the context of climate change the world faces growing environmental pressures described as planetary boundaries including air and water pollution, land degradation, natural resources depletion and extinctions of species among other environmenta
Some thoughts and proposals for a way forward
The WTO XII Ministerial Conference (MC12) will be a different and singular event for the organization and also for the participating member countries.
Restrictions and export duties: A pending issue
Export barriers (or controls) can take a variety of forms -such as prohibitions, taxes, quotas or licenses, among others- and have been applied to industrial and agricultural products, both by developed and developing countries, while pursuing eco
Market access
Market Access is one of the most significant and challenging pillars in the WTO Agreement on Agriculture due to its magnitude and the impacts associated with a change in agricultural trade rules.
Promoting transparency on agricultural policies at the WTO: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean
Transparency is present across all three pillars of the WTO Agriculture negotiations, with many technical submissions and proposals by WTO members that either address transparency exclusively, or include related elements within the areas they cove