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Deadly discrimination: Implications of “Missing Girls” for workplace safety

We examine an indirect but potentially deadly consequence of the “missing girls” phenomenon. A shortage of brides causes many parents with sons of marriageable age to work harder and seek higher-paying but dangerous jobs.

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Agricultural development: New perspectives in a changing world

Explores key emerging issues facing developing-country agriculture today, from rapid urbanization to rural transformation to climate change

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Agricultural development: New perspectives in a changing world: Synopsis

Agricultural Development: New Perspectives in a Changing World is the first comprehensive exploration of key emerging issues facing developing-country agriculture today, from rapid urbanization to rural transformation to climate change.

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Agricultural development in a changing world

The world has been changing rapidly, and major issues surrounding agriculture have evolved as well. In fact, over the last several decades major shifts have occurred in the thinking on and practice of agricultural development.

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2020 Global food policy report: Building inclusive food systems: Synopsis [in Russian]

Продовольственные системы всего мира подошли к переломно- му моменту — масштабы и темпы изменений, происходящих в глобальных, региональных, национальных и местных продоволь- ственных системах, имеют беспрецедентный размах.

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2020 Global food policy report: Building inclusive food systems: Synopsis [in Chinese]

目前,我们的食物系统正处于关键时期⸺无论 是在规模还是在速度上,全球、地区、国家和地方食 物系统正在发生着空前的变化。食物系统正以迅猛的速度发展,以满足日益增长且不 断变化的需求,但仍然无法满足每个人的需求。当这份报告付印时,新冠肺炎的爆发 构成了新的全球性威胁。在全世界与这个流行病战斗之际,经济和生计受到破坏之时, 贫穷和弱势群体可能遭受的损失最大。应对这个冲击的影响,包括从供应链和贸易中 断,到严重的失业问题以及贫困水平上升,迫切需要在短期内为最弱势群体提供有效 和有针对性的社会保障。

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2020 Global food policy report: Synopsis [in Arabic]

Food systems are at a critical juncture—they are evolving quickly to meet growing and changing demand but are not serving everyone’s needs.

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Regional developments

Building inclusive food systems to help reach the goal of ending hunger and malnutrition globally will require innovation and investment at the regional and country levels.

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IFPRI in Asia

Highlights of IFPRI’s current cutting-edge, policy-relevant research in Central, East, South, and Southeast Asia are featured in this brochure.

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The impact of exposure to air pollution on cognitive performance

This paper examines the effect of both cumulative and transitory exposures to air pollution for the same individuals over time on cognitive performance by matching a nationally representative longitudinal survey and air quality data in China accor

discussion paper

The dark side of competition: Gender differences

The literature has placed great emphasis on the advantages of competition on market efficiency while ignoring the downside of competition on health. Using a natural experiment in Taiwan, we show that excessive competition comes at a health cost.

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2015 Global Nutrition Report Dataset

The 2015 Global Nutrition Report Dataset contains data for all the indicators that were used in Global Nutrition Report 2015: Actions and Accountability to Accelerate the World's Progress on Nutrition .