Border Carbon Adjustment (BCAs) may play an important role in lowering the economic costs of greenhouse gas mitigation and in overcoming political-economy constraints on use of carbon taxes or equivalent measures.
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Women's empowerment and the intrinsic demand for agency: Experimental evidence from Nigeria
Most studies of intrahousehold resource allocation examine outcomes and do not consider the decision-making process by which those outcomes are achieved.
There is a need to address gender inequalities in agri-food systems (AFS) governance to close the gender gap and improve women’s agency and participation in the agri-food sector.
This paper assesses the structure of Rwanda’s current and evolving agrifood system and its contribution to national development.
This paper analyzes transaction data from agricultural surveys carried out in five countries in low-and-middle-income countries to test for a difference in the prices received by men and by women marketing the same crop in the same village.
Gendered farm work, off-farm employment, and decision-making power: Quantitative evidence from Tajikistan
Globally, nearly half of all workers in rural areas work in agriculture (International Labour Organization 2020).
A review of measures and indicators for assessing the relationship between women’s empowerment and nutrition
In this review we sought to understand how the relationship between women’s empowerment and women’s and children’s diet and nutrition outcomes have been conceptualized and studied.
Forsa, which means “Opportunity” in Arabic, is a new economic inclusion program of the government of the Arab Republic of Egypt.
This paper empirically investigates the role of off-farm and non-agricultural activities in Myanmar’s rural sector, based primarily on the nationally representative MLCS 2016/17.
The third round of the Myanmar Household Welfare Survey (MHWS), a nationally and regionally representative phone survey, was implemented between July and August 2022.
Cash Transfers, Trust, and Inter-household Transfers: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania
This paper was originally published in December 2020 and was updated in November 2022.
Policy options for fertilizer subsidy reforms in Rwanda: A simulation-based analysis and synthesis of prior studies
Agricultural input subsidies are a prominent feature in the 2018-2024 Strategic Plan for Agricultural Transformation (PSTA 4), which is designed and implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources (MINAGRI).
Intra-household decisions on cookstove choices and impacts on the welfare of women and girls
This study aimed to examine the intra-household decision-making on stove choice and understand whether the gender and other characteristics of the household member who decides on the type of cookstove used affect the intended welfare gains for wom
Identifying energy solutions to support development of irrigated agriculture in Ethiopia
Sub-Saharan African countries have long been beset with energy poverty.
Do electoral considerations play a role in the targeting of humanitarian transfers?
Egypt introduced the Takaful and Karama Program (TKP), a pair of targeted cash transfer schemes in 2015.
Livestock, capture fisheries, and aquaculture in Myanmar: Status and recent trends [in Burmese]
Traditional forms of livestock-rearing and fishing have been central components in rural livelihoods in Myanmar for centuries and remain important today.
Revisiting poverty trends and the role of social protection systems in Africa during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Quantifying the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on poverty in Africa has been as difficult as predicting the path of the pandemic, mainly due to data limitations.
Measuring consumption over the phone: Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia
The paucity of reliable, timely household consumption data in many low- and middle-income countries has made it difficult to assess how global poverty has evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Agri-food exports are important for Myanmar’s economic takeoff, in particular for the transformation of agri-food systems.