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Book Synopsis Validating Operational Food Insecurity Indicators Against a Dynamic Benchmark by : Luc Christiaensen
Download or read book Validating Operational Food Insecurity Indicators Against a Dynamic Benchmark written by Luc Christiaensen and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indicators of household food insecurity are typically static and thus ignore a key dimension of food insecurity.An explicitly forward-looking food insecurity indicator is developed that takes into account both current dietary inadequacy and vulnerability to dietary inadequacy in the future. Relative to this dynamic benchmark, three readily available indicators are evaluated.Christiaensen, Boisvert, and Hoddinott develop an explicitly forward-looking indicator of food insecurity that takes into account both current dietary inadequacy and vulnerability to dietary inadequacy in the future.Application of this measure to data from northern Mali shows that neglecting the future dimension of food insecurity causes serious underestimation of food insecurity in this area.The authors evaluate the performance, relative to their dynamic benchmark, of three readily available alternative indicators:- An agricultural production index.- A dietary diversity index.- A coping strategy index.Despite the uneven performance of these indexes relative to the individual components of the dynamic food insecurity indicator developed in the paper, they all demonstrate strong associations with that indicator. This is a promising result, given the urgent demand for reliable indicators of food insecurity.This paper - a product of the Poverty Reduction and Social Development Unit, Africa Region - is part of a larger effort in the region to understand the evolution of poverty and inequality in Africa in the 1990s. Luc Christiaensen may be contacted at [email protected].
Book Synopsis Validating Operational Food Insecurity Indicators Against a Dynamic Benchmark by : Luc J. Christiaensen
Download or read book Validating Operational Food Insecurity Indicators Against a Dynamic Benchmark written by Luc J. Christiaensen and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indicators of household food insecurity are typically static and thus ignore a key dimension of food insecurity. An explicitly forward-looking food insecurity indicator is developed that takes into account both current dietary inadequacy and vulnerability to dietary inadequacy in the future. Relative to this dynamic benchmark three readily available indicators are evaluated.
Book Synopsis Proceedings of 2015 2nd International Conference on Industrial Economics System and Industrial Security Engineering by : Menggang Li
Download or read book Proceedings of 2015 2nd International Conference on Industrial Economics System and Industrial Security Engineering written by Menggang Li and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-10 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects high-quality papers on the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of industrial economics study and industrial security engineering, providing insights that address problems concerning the national economy, social development and economic security. The book is divided into major sections including Industrial Economics; Industrial Security; Empirical Studies; and others, all of which cover different aspects, such as industrial organization, industrial structure, industrial development, industrial distribution and industrial policies, as well as theories on industrial security in a globalized world. The papers in each section describe state-of-art research works that are often oriented on real-world applications, and highlight the benefits of related methods and techniques for developing the emerging fields of Industrial Economics and Industrial Security.
Book Synopsis Institutions, Politics, and Contracts by : Lorena Alcázar
Download or read book Institutions, Politics, and Contracts written by Lorena Alcázar and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That Lima's water system was in near-crisis was not enough to bring about radical change. Partial reforms to reduce many of the city's worst problems were carried out under public management. But a quarter of Lima's citizens still had no access to water or sewerage connections, extended service interruptions were common and more than a third of the scarce water supply was wasted. Why did the push for privatized water and sanitation fall?
Book Synopsis Contractual Savings, Stock, and Asset Markets by : Gregorio Impavido
Download or read book Contractual Savings, Stock, and Asset Markets written by Gregorio Impavido and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cross-country and time-series evidence from some OECD and developing countries shows that pension funds and life and nonlife insurance companies contribute to stock market development.
Book Synopsis Health Insurance Reform in Four Latin American Countries by : William Jack
Download or read book Health Insurance Reform in Four Latin American Countries written by William Jack and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia have reformed the ways health insurance and health care are organized and delivered, have extended formal coverage to previously marginalized groups, and have tried to finance this extension fairly. Each has reformed health insurance differently.
Book Synopsis Can Institutions Resolve Ethnic Conflict? by : William Russell Easterly
Download or read book Can Institutions Resolve Ethnic Conflict? written by William Russell Easterly and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnic diversity has a more adverse effect on economic policy and growth when a government's institutions are poor. But poor institutions have an even more adverse effect on growth and policy when ethnic diversity is high.
Book Synopsis Banking Crises and Exchange Rate Regimes by : Ilker Domaç
Download or read book Banking Crises and Exchange Rate Regimes written by Ilker Domaç and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuing a policy of exchange rate stability reduces the probability of banking crises, particularly in developing countries.
Book Synopsis Annuity Markets in Comparative Perspective by : Estelle James
Download or read book Annuity Markets in Comparative Perspective written by Estelle James and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary result of a continuing research project that analyzes annuity markets in various countries. The projects focused on understanding whether annuity markets can be relied upon to provide reliable retirement income at reasonable prices.
Book Synopsis The Credit Crunch in East Asia by : Pierre-Richard Agénor
Download or read book The Credit Crunch in East Asia written by Pierre-Richard Agénor and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A two-step approach is used to assess the extent to which the credit crunch in East Asia was supply- or demand-driven. The results for Thailand suggest that the contraction in bank lending that accompanied the crisis was the result of supply factors.
Book Synopsis Picking the Poor by : Norbert Rüdiger Schady
Download or read book Picking the Poor written by Norbert Rüdiger Schady and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geographic targeting of social programs to the poor has become increasingly important in Peru. The potential payoffs of such targeting are large, and differences in outcomes with different targeting indicators are small.
Book Synopsis Estimating the Effects of Corruption by : Aminur Rahman
Download or read book Estimating the Effects of Corruption written by Aminur Rahman and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countries that are serious about reducing corruption tend to attract more investment, both domestic and foreign, and to accelerate economic growth and poverty reduction.
Book Synopsis Foreign Direct Investment in Africa by : Jacques Morisset
Download or read book Foreign Direct Investment in Africa written by Jacques Morisset and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A few Sub-Saharan countries, by improving their business environment, have begun to attract more substantial foreign direct investment than other African countries with bigger domestic markets and greater natural resources. Like Ireland and Singapore, perhaps they can become competitive internationally and attract sustainable foreign direct investment.
Book Synopsis Productivity Growth and Resources Degradation in Pakistan's Punjab by : Derek Byerlee
Download or read book Productivity Growth and Resources Degradation in Pakistan's Punjab written by Derek Byerlee and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: November 2000 The introduction of green revolution technologies in wheat and rice production in Pakistan's Punjab province reversed the country's food crisis and stimulated rapid agricultural and economic growth. But resource degradation through intensification, monocropping, and mismanagement of water resources has offset much of the productivity effect of technological change. The introduction of green revolution technologies in wheat and rice production in Asia in the mid-1960s reversed the food crisis and stimulated rapid agricultural and economic growth. But the sustain-ability of this intensification strategy is being questioned in light of the heavy use of external inputs and growing evidence of a slowdown in productivity growth and degradation of the resource base. Ali and Byerlee address the critical issue of long-term productivity and the sustainability of Pakistan's irrigated agriculture. To estimate changes in total factor productivity in four production systems of Punjab province, they assemble district-level data on 33 crops, 8 livestock products, and 17 input categories. They find that average annual growth in total factor productivity was moderately high (1.26 percent) for both crops and livestock for the period 1966-94, but observe wide variation in productivity growth by cropping system. A second, disaggregated data set on soil and water quality reveals significant resource degradation. The authors use the two data sets to decompose the effects of technical change and resource degradation through application of a cost function. They find that continuous and widespread resource degradation (as measured by soil and water quality variables) has had a significant negative effect on productivity, especially in the wheat-rice system, where resource degradation has more than offset the productivity effects of technological change. Degradation of the health of the agro-ecosystem was related in part to modern technologies, monocropping, and mismanagement of water resources. The results call for urgent analysis of technology and policy options to arrest the degradation of resources. This paper--a joint product of the Rural Development Department and the Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center--is part of a larger effort to support the development of sustainable intensification of irrigated agricultural systems. The study was funded by the Bank's Research Support Budget under the research project "Total Factor Productivity Growth in Post-Green Revolution Agriculture of Pakistan and Northwest India." Mubarik Ali may be contacted at [email protected].
Book Synopsis Finance and Marcoeconomic Volatility by : Cevdet Denizer
Download or read book Finance and Marcoeconomic Volatility written by Cevdet Denizer and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countries with more developed financial sectors, experience fewer fluctuations in real per capita output, consumption, and investment growth. But the manner in which the financial sector develops matters. The relative importance of banks in the financial system is important in explaining consumption, and investment volatility. The proportion of credit provided to the private sector, best explains volatility of consumption, and output. The authors generate their main results using fixed-effects estimates with panel data from seventy countries for the years 1956-98. Their general findings suggest that the risk management, and information processing provided by banks, maybe especially important in reducing consumption, and investment volatility. The simple availability of credit to the private sector, probably helps smooth consumption, and GDP.
Book Synopsis The World Bank Research Program 2001 by : World Bank
Download or read book The World Bank Research Program 2001 written by World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is a compilation of reports on research projects initiated, under way, or completed in fiscal year 2001 (July 1, 2000 through June 30, 2001). The abstracts cover 150 research projects from the World Bank and grouped under 11 major headings including poverty and social development, health and population, education, labor and employment, environment, infrastructure and urban development, and agriculture and rural development. The abstracts detail the questions addressed, the analytical methods used, the findings to date and their policy implications. Each abstract identifies the expected completion date of each project, the research team, and reports or publications produced.
Book Synopsis Industrial Growth and Quality of Institutions by : David A. Grigorian
Download or read book Industrial Growth and Quality of Institutions written by David A. Grigorian and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing the legal and regulatory framework, improving contract enforcement, and reducing administrative barriers in the business environment increases the amount of investment and improves the efficiency of resource allocation.
