"The primary goal of emergency food aid after an economic shock is often to bolster short-term food and nutrition security.

""For effective decisionmaking, policymakers and program managers often need detailed information about the welfare of the population, including knowledge about which specific areas are most affected by poverty and undernutrition.

"This paper examines how market institutions can affect links between urban and rural areas with specific emphasis on goods market integration in the national context.Traditionally, development researchers and practitioners have focused either on

"This paper uses longitudinal data from 15 villages in rural Ethiopia to explore the nature and consequences of these links. It addresses the following questions: (1) What are the links between rural households and local urban centers?

"While many community-driven development (CDD) initiatives may be successful, their impact is often limited by their small scale.

"This paper contributes to the economic analysis of marriage and the family by examining and analyzing the relative importance of potential determinants of assets brought to marriages in rural Ethiopia.

"Food aid programs have become increasingly important for disaster relief in many developing countries.

This paper synthesizes the results of five studies using household panel data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Mali, Mexico and Russia, which examine the extent to which households are able through formal and/or informal arrangements to insure their con

A methodology to produce disaggregated estimates of inequality is implemented in three developing countries: Ecuador, Madagascar, and Mozambique.

This case study explores the relationships between agroforestry-based soil fertility replenishment (SFR) systems (improved follows and biomass transfer) and poverty reduction in rural western Kenya.

As the goals of international agricultural research move beyond increasing food production to the broader aims of reducing poverty, both agricultural research and studies of its impact become more complex.

Household food security is an important measure of well-being.

The diversity of urban areas presents substantial challenges to the validity of information from rapid assessments, yet CARE’s experiences in Bangladesh and Tanzania suggest a number of ways that rapid assessment procedures can be strengthened to

This paper investigates how the control and devolution of productive assets are allocated among husband and wife.

Since the transition to democracy, South African public works programs are to involve community participation, and be targeted to the poor and women.

This paper is based on community-level data from 188 villages in rural Madagascar.

The paper reviews recent theory and empirical evidence testing unitary versus collective models of the household.

This paper examines the impact of rainfall shocks on a measure of adult health, body mass, drawing on a unique panel data set of households residing in rural Zimbabwe.

The UNICEF-expanded model for nutrition is used to analyze the circumstances of care in urban environments.