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2012: The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index

Sabina Alkire, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Amber Peterman, Agnes Quisumbing, Greg Seymour and Ana Vaz

2012: Food price volatility in Africa: Has it really increased?

Nicholas Minot

2012: The comprehensive Africa agriculture program as a collective institution

Regina Birner, Kathleen Flaherty and Shashi Kolavalli

2012: Mechanization in Ghana: Searching for sustainable service supply models

Patrick Aboagye, Frances Cossar, Xinshen Diao, Nazaire Houssou, Kipo Jimah and Shashi Kolavalli

2012: Differential export taxes along the oilseeds value chain:: A partial equilibrium analysis

Bouët, Antoine, Carmen Estrades and David Laborde Debucquet

2012: The role of rural producer organizations for agricultural service provision in fragile states

Jennifer Golan and Catherine Ragasa

2012: Cash, food, or vouchers?: Evidence from a randomized experiment in northern Ecuador

Melissa Hidrobo, John Hoddinott, Amy Margolies, Vanessa Moreira and Amber Peterman

2012: Public expenditures, private incentives, and technology adoption: The economics of hybrid rice in South Asia

Harun Ar-Rashid, Kajal Gulati, Deepthi Kolady, David Spielman and Patrick Ward

2012: Malaria and agriculture: A global review of the literature with a focus on the application of integrated pest and vector management in East Africa and Uganda

Margaret Najjingo Mangheni, Claudia Ringler, Daniel Tsegai and Benjamin Wielgosz

2012: Did using input vouchers improve the distribution of subsidized fertilizer in Nigeria?: The case of Kano and Taraba states

Lenis Liverpool-Tasie

2012: The supply of inorganic fertilizers to smallholder farmers in Tanzania: Evidence for fertilizer policy development

Todd Benson, Stephen L. Kirama and Onesmo Selejio

2012: The supply of inorganic fertilizers to smallholder farmers in Mozambique: Evidence for fertilizer policy development

Todd Benson, Benedito Cunguara and Tewodaj Mogues

2012: The supply of inorganic fertilizers to smallholder farmers in Uganda: Evidence for Fertilizer Policy Development

Stephen Bayite-Kasule, Todd Benson, Patrick Lubega, Tewodaj Mogues and Julian Nyachwo

2012: Taxation policy and gender employment in the Middle East and North Africa Region: A comparative analysis of Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia

Omar Bouazouni, Rim Chatti, Erwin Corong and Fofana, Ismaël

2012: Policy reform toward gender equality in Ethiopia: Little by little the egg begins to walk

Neha Kumar and Agnes Quisumbing

2012: Improving the measurement of food security

Olivier Ecker and Derek Headey

2012: Improved performance of agriculture in Africa South of the Sahara: Taking off or bouncing back?

Michael E. Johnson, Alejandro Nin-Pratt and Bingxin Yu

2012: Review of input and output policies for cereals production in Pakistan

Abdul Salam

2012: Supply and demand for cereals in Pakistan, 2010-2030

Syed Hamza Haider, Hina Nazli and Asjad Tariq

2012: The road to specialization in agricultural production:: Evidence from rural China

Yu Qin and Xiaobo Zhang

2012: Change and diversity in smallholder rice-fish systems: Recent evidence from Bangladesh

Madan M. Dey, A.B.M. Mahfuzul Haque, Md. Saidur Rahman, Spielman David J. and Rowena Valmonte-Santos

2012: Is MERCOSUR’s External Agenda Pro-Poor?: An assessment of the European Union-MERCOSUR free-trade agreement on poverty in Uruguay applying MIRAGE

Carmen Estrades

2012: Heterogeneous pro–poor targeting in India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

Christopher Barrett and Yanyan Liu

2012: The impacts of public investment in and for agriculture: Synthesis of the existing evidence

Shenggen Fan, Linden McBride, Tewodaj Mogues and Bingxin Yu

2012: What determines public expenditure allocations?: A review of theories, and implications for agricultural public investments

Tewodaj Mogues

2012: Nonlinear dynamics of livestock assets: Evidence from Ethiopia

Stefan Dercon and Bjorn Van Campenhout

2012: An overview of Chinese agricultural and rural engagement in Tanzania

Bräutigam, Deborah and Xiaoyang Tang

2012: The partially liberalized cocoa sector in Ghana: Producer price determination, quality control, and service provision

Shashi Kolavalli, Haruna Maamah, John Poku and Marcella Vigneri

2012: Structural change in Argentina, 1935–60: The role of import substitution and factor endowments

Dario Debowicz and Paul Segal

2012: Traceability in a supply chain with repeated moral hazard

Alexander Saak

2012: Managing transition in Yemen: An assessment of the costs of conflict and development scenarios for the future

Abdulmajeed Al-Bataly, Perrihan Al-Riffai, Clemens Breisinger, Olivier Ecker and Wilfried Engelke

2012: Bangladesh rice trade and price stabilization: Implications of the 2007/08 experience for public stocks

Paul Dorosh and Shahidur Rashid

2012: Analyzing intersectoral convergence to improve child undernutrition in India: Development and application of a framework to examine policies in agriculture, health, and nutrition

Purnima Menon and Rajani Ved

2012: Branding and agricultural value chains in developing countries: insights from Bihar, India

Bart Minten, Krishna Singh and Rajib Sutradhar

2012: Costly posturing: relative status, ceremonies and early child development in China

Xi Chen and Xiaobo Zhang

2012: Should private storage be subsidized to stabilize agricultural markets after price support schemes are removed?

Fabienne Femenia

2012: Mapping the contemporary fertilizer policy landscape in Malawi: a guide for policy researchers

Noora-Lisa Aberman, Regina Birner, Klaus Droppelmann, Peter Gaff, Michael E. Johnson and Eva Schiffer

2012: The Economic Consequences of Excess Men: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan

Simon Chang and Xiaobo Zhang

2012: The value of customized insurance for farmers in rural Bangladesh

Danielle Clarke, Narayan C. Das, Ruth Hill, Neha Kumar, Parendi Mehta and Francesca de Nicola

2012: Gender assessment of the agricultural sector in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Catherine Ragasa, Annie Kinwa-Muzinga and John Ulimwengu

2012: Toward an integrated approach for addressing malnutrition in Zambia: a literature review and institutional analysis

Scott Drimie and Jody Harris

2012: Review of input and output policies for cereal production in Bangladesh

Anand Ganesh-Kumar and Hemant Pullabhotla

2012: Onset risk and draft animal investment in nigeria

Hiroyuki Takeshima

2012: Farmer Groups, Input Access and Intragroup Dynamics: A Case Study of Targeted Subsidies in Nigeria

Lenis Liverpool-Tasie

2012: Does Food Security Matter for Transition in Arab Countries?

Clemens Breisinger, Jean-François Maystadt and Jean-François Trinh Tan

2012: Agriculture, Income, and Nutrition Linkages in India: Insights from a Nationally Representative Survey

Priya Bhagowalia, Derek Headey and Suneetha Kadiyala

2012: Targeted Subsidies and Private Market Participation: An Assessment of Fertilizer Demand in Nigeria

Lenis Liverpool-Tasie

2012: Mineral Resources and Conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A Case of Ecological Fallacy

Giacomo De Luca, Renato Folledo, Jean-François Maystadt, Petros Sekeris and John Ulimwengu

2012: What Dimensions of Women’s Empowerment Matter Most for Child Nutrition? Evidence Using Nationally Representative Data from Bangladesh

Priya Bhagowalia, Purnima Menon, Agnes Quisumbing and Vidhya Soundararajan

2012: Unattended but not undernourished: young children left behind in rural China

Ren Mu and Alan de Brauw

2012: Measuring aspirations: discussion and example from Ethiopia

Tanguy Bernard and Alemayehu Taffesse

2012: The Feminization of Agriculture with Chinese Characteristics

Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle and Alan de Brauw

2012: Women’s Property, Mobility, and Decisionmaking: Evidence from Rural Karnataka, India

Rahul Lahoti, J. Y. Suchita and Hema Swaminathan

2012: The Agriculture-Nutrition Disconnect in India: What Do We Know?

Stuart Gillespie, Jody Harris and Suneetha Kadiyala

2012: Supply and Demand for Cereals in Bangladesh: 2010–2030

Anand Ganesh-Kumar, Sanjay K. Prasad and Hemant Pullabhotla

2012: An Overview of Chinese Agricultural and Rural Engagement in Ethiopia

Bräutigam, Deborah and Xiaoyang Tang

2012: Agriculture-nutrition linkages and policies in India

Mahendra S. Dev

2012: Exploring agricultural levers for mitigating the overnutrition burden in India

H.P.S. Sachdev

2012: Financial reforms and international trade

Xing Chen, Abdul Munasib and Devesh Roy

2012: Innovation and research by private agribusiness in India

Latha Nagarajan and Carl E. Pray

2012: The relevance of content in ICT initiatives in Indian agriculture

Pier Paolo Ficarelli and Claire J. Glendenning

2012: Land institutions, investments, and income diversification: Pathways to economic development for Brazil’s quilombo communities

William Bowser and Carl Nelson

2012: The macroeconomic impacts of Chinese currency appreciation on China and the rest of world: A global computable general equilibrium analysis

Simla Tokgoz, Jun Yang and Wei Zhang

2012: All eggs in one basket: A reflection on Malawi’s dependence on agricultural growth strategy

Klaus Droppelmann, Ian Kumwenda and Jonathan Makuwira

2012: Enhancing resilience in the Horn of Africa: An exploration into alternative investment options

Derek Headey, Alemayehu Taffesse and Liangzhi You

2012: Reforming the public administration for food security and agricultural development: Insights from an empirical study in Karnataka

Regina Birner, Katharina Raabe and Madhushree Sekher

2012: The dynamics of insurance demand under liquidity constraints and insurer default risk

Yanyan Liu and Robert Myers

2012: Agricultural productivity and public expenditures in sub-saharan africa

Summer Allen and Matin Qaim

2012: Government expenditures, social outcomes, and marginal productivity of agricultural inputs: a case study for Tanzania

Summer Allen, Ousmane Badiane and John Ulimwengu

2012: Pluralistic extension system in Malawi

Charles Masangano and Catherine Mthinda

2012: Measuring the contribution of Bt cotton adoption to India's cotton yields leap

Guillaume Gruère and Yan Sun

2012: Including women in the policy responses to high oil prices: a case study of South Africa

Fofana, Ismaël

2012: Economic statecraft in China’s New Overseas Special Economic Zones: Soft power, business, or resource security?

Bräutigam, Deborah and Xiaoyang Tang

2012: Revisiting the palm oil boom in Southeast Asia: The role of fuel versus food demand drivers

Joseph Balagtas, Guillaume Gruère and Daniel J. Sanders

2012: The food security system: A new conceptual framework

Clemens Breisinger and Olivier Ecker

2012: Farmers’ information needs and search behaviors: Case study in Tamil Nadu, India

Kwadwo Asenso-okyere, Suresh Babu, Claire J. Glendenning and Senthil Kumar Govindarajan

2012: Rural demography, public services, and land rights in Africa: A village-level analysis in Burkina Faso

Harounan Kazianga, William Masters and Margaret McMillan

2012: Economic development, external shocks, and food security in Tajikistan

Kamiljon Akramov and Ganga Shreedhar

2012: Infectious disease detection with private information

Alexander Saak

2012: Economic transformation in Ghana: Where will the path lead?

Vida Alpuerto, Felix Ankomah Asante, Xinshen Diao, Renato Folledo, Shashi Kolavalli, Guyslain Ngeleza, Elizabeth Robinson and Mira Slavova

2012: Globalization, structural change, and productivity growth

Margaret McMillan and Dani Rodrik

2012: A review of input and output policies for cereals production in India

Anand Ganesh-Kumar, Ashok Gulati, Neelmani Gupta, Hemant Pullabhotla and Ganga Shreedhar

2012: Demand and supply of cereals in India: 2010-2025

Anand Ganesh-Kumar, Kavery Ganguly, Ashok Gulati, Rajesh Mehta, Sanjay K. Prasad and Hemant Pullabhotla

2012: Close eye or closed eye: The case of export misinvoicing in Bangladesh

Kaikaus Ahmad, Pranav Gupta and Devesh Roy

2012: The sophistication and diversification of the African agricultural sector: A product space approach

Badibanga, Thaddée and John Ulimwengu

2012: Why women are progressive in education?: Gender disparities in human capital, labor markets, and family arrangement in the Philippines

Marites Tiongco and Futoshi Yamauchi

2012: Resource-Rich Yet Malnourished: Analysis of the demand for food nutrients in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Josee Randriamamonjy, Cleo Roberts and John Ulimwengu

2012: Putting Gender on the Map: Methods for mapping gendered farm management systems in Sub-Saharan Africa

Vincent Akamandisa, Julia Behrman, Lesley Hope, Zhenya Karelina, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Ben Wielgosz and Barbara van Koppen