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2009: Paving the way for development?: The impact of transport infrastructure on agricultural production and poverty reduction in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Jose Funes, Derek Headey, John Ulimwengu and Liangzhi You

2009: Formal-informal economy linkages and unemployment in South Africa

Rob Davies and James Thurlow

2009: Recent food prices movements: A time series analysis

Bryce Cooke and Luis Robles

2009: Decentralization, agricultural services and determinants of input use in Nigeria

Kamiljon Akramov

2009: How important are peer effects in group lending?: Estimating a static game of incomplete information

Klaus Deininger, Shanjun Li and Yanyan Liu

2009: Rice production responses in Cambodia

Shenggen Fan and Bingxin Yu

2009: A latent class approach to investigating consumer demand for genetically modified staple food in a developing country: The case of GM bananas in Uganda

Ekin Birol, Falck-Zepeda, José, Enoch Kikulwe and Justus Wesseler

2009: Cluster-based industrialization in China: Financing and performance

Cheryl Long and Xiaobo Zhang

2009: Sensitivity of welfare effects estimated by equilibrium displacement model: A biological productivity growth for semisubsistence crops in Sub-Sahara African market with high transaction costs

Hiroyuki Takeshima

2009: Assessing household vulnerability to climate change: The case of farmers in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia

Temesgen Deressa, Rashid M. Hassan and Claudia Ringler

2009: Do external grants to district governments discourage own-revenue generation?: A look at local public finance dynamics in Ghana

Samuel Benin, Godsway Cudjoe and Tewodaj Mogues

2009: Impacts of prenatal and environmental factors on child growth: Evidence from Indonesia

Katsuhiko Higuchi, Rita Nur Suhaeti and Futoshi Yamauchi

2009: Rich consumers and poor producers: Quality and rent distribution in global value chains

Johan Swinnen and Anneleen Vandeplas

2009: Economic growth and distribution of income: A growth model to fit Ghanaian data

Xinshen Diao, Harumi T. Nelson and Terry Roe

2009: Trade liberalization, poverty, and food security in India

Anand Ganesh-Kumar and Manoj Panda

2009: Improving the proof: Evolution of and emerging trends in impact assessment methods and approaches in agricultural development

Mywish Maredia

2009: Improving diet quality and micronutrient nutrition: Homestead food production in Bangladesh

Kenda Cunningham, Lora Iannotti and Marie Ruel

2009: Land-tenure policy reforms: Decollectivization and the Doi Moi system in Vietnam

Michael Kirk and Nguyen Do Anh Tuan

2009: “Crossing the river while feeling the rocks”: Incremental land reform and its impact on rural welfare in China

John W. Bruce and Zongmin Li

2009: Rich food for poor people: Genetically improved tilapia in the Philippines

Sivan Yosef

2009: Rural and urban linkages: Operation flood's role in India's dairy development

Kenda Cunningham

2009: The global effort to eradicate rinderpest

Karl Rich and Peter Roeder

2009: The mungbean transformation diversifying crops, defeating malnutrition: Diversifying crops, defeating malnutrition

Jacqueline d'Arros Hughes, J.D.H. Keatinge and Subramanyam Shanmugasundaram

2009: Private sector responses to public investments and policy reforms: The case of fertilizer and maize market development in Kenya

Joshua Ariga and Thomas Jayne

2009: Institutional reform in the Burkinabè cotton sector and its impacts on incomes and food security: 1996-2006

Tanguy Bernard, Derek Headey and Jonathan Kaminski

2009: Pearl millet and sorghum improvement in India

Latha Nagarajan and Carl E. Pray

2009: Hybrid rice technology development: Ensuring China's food security

Jiming Li, Yeyun Xin and Longping Yuan

2009: The impact of shallow tubewells and boro rice on food security in Bangladesh

Mahabub Hossain

2009: Zero tillage in the rice-wheat systems of the Indo-Gangetic Plains: A review of impacts and sustainability implications

Olaf Erenstein

2009: The case of zero-tillage technology in Argentina

E. Cap, V. Malach, E. Trigo and F. Villarreal

2009: Agroenvironmental transformation in the Sahel: Another kind of “Green Revolution"

Chris Reij, Melinda Smale and Gary Tappan

2009: Community forestry in Nepal: a policy innovation for local livelihoods

Ashwini Chhatre, Hemant Ojha and Lauren Persha

2009: Controlling cassava mosaic virus and cassava mealybug in Sub-Saharan Africa

Felix Nweke

2009: The Asian Green Revolution

Peter B.R. Hazell

2009: Combating stem and leaf rust of wheat: Historical perspective, impacts, and lessons learned

John P. Brennan and H.J. Dubin

2009: Food and nutrition emergencies in East Africa: Political, economic and environmental associations

Ruth Oniang'o

2009: Assessing the economic viability of alternative water resources in water-scarce regions: Combining economic valuation, cost-benefit analysis and discounting

Ekin Birol, Phoebe Koundouri and Yiannis Kountouris

2009: Green and blue water accounting in the Limpopo and Nile Basins: Implications for food and agricultural policy

Elizabeth Bryan, Siwa Msangi, Claudia Ringler, Mark Rosegrant, Timothy Sulser and Tingju Zhu

2009: The growth-poverty convergence agenda: Optimizing social expenditures to maximize their impact on agricultural labor productivity, growth, and poverty reduction in Africa

Ousmane Badiane and John Ulimwengu

2009: HIV and mobility in the Lake Victoria Basin agricultural sector: A literature review

Scott Drimie, Stuart Gillespie, Margaret Wagah and Julia Weinand

2009: Institutional change, rural services, and agricultural performance in Kyrgyzstan

Kamiljon Akramov and Nurbek Omuraliev

2009: A picture of tariff protection across the World in 2004: MAcMap-HS6, Version 2

Houssein Boumellassa, David Laborde Debucquet and Cristina Mitaritonna

2009: Governance decentralization and local infrastructure provision in Indonesia

Shyamnal Chowdhury, Reno Dewina and Futoshi Yamauchi

2009: Estimating the impact of agricultural technology on poverty reduction in rural Nigeria

Babatunde Omilola

2009: Greenhouse gas mitigation: Issues for Indian agriculture

Puja Jawajar, Xiaoli Liao, Siwa Msangi, Gerald Nelson, Richard Robertson and Tingju Zhu

2009: Rural non-farm income and inequality in Nigeria

Babatunde Omilola

2009: Lagging regions and development strategies: The case of Peru

Samuel Morley, Alejandro Nin Pratt and James Thurlow

2009: Spatial networks, labor supply, and income dynamics: Evidence from Indonesian villages

Shyamal Chowdhury, Reno Dewina, Megumi Muto, Sony Sumaryanto and Futoshi Yamauchi

2009: The evolution of an industrial cluster in China

Belton Fleisher, Dinghuan Hu, William McGuire and Xiaobo Zhang

2009: Commodity price volatility and nutrition vulnerability

Thomas Hertel and Monika Verma

2009: Measuring irrigation performance in Africa

Mandy Ewing, Siwa Msangi and Mark Svendsen

2009: Managing future oil revenues in Ghana: An assessment of alternative allocation options

Clemens Breisinger, Xinshen Diao, Rainer Schweickert and Manfred Wiebelt

2009: Impact of water user associations on agricultural productivity in Chile

Timothy Essam and Nancy McCarthy

2009: China's growth and the agricultural exports of Southern Africa

Thomas Hertel, Alejandro Nin-Pratt and Nelson Villoria

2009: The impact of climate variability and change on economic growth and poverty in Zambia

James Thurlow, Tingju Zhu and Xinshen Diao

2009: Navigating the perfect storm: Reflections on the food, energy, and financial crises

Derek Headey, Sangeetha Malaiyandi and Shenggen Fan

2009: How important is a regional free trade area for Southern Africa?: Potential impacts and structural constraints

Alejandro Nin-Pratt, Xinshen Diao and Yonas Bahta

2009: Determinant of smallholder farmer labor allocation decisions in Uganda

Fred Bagamba, Kees Burger and Arie Kuyvenhoven

2009: The potential cost of a failed Doha Round

Bouët, Antoine and David Laborde Debucquet

2009: Mapping South African farming sector vulnerability to climate change and variability: A subnational assessment

Glwadys Aymone Gbetibouo and Claudia Ringler

2009: How does food price increase affect Ugandan households?: An augmented multimarket approach

John Ulimwengu and Racha Ramadan

2009: Linking urban consumers and rural farmers in India: A comparison of traditional and modern food supply chains

Bart Minten, Thomas Reardon and Anneleen Vandeplas

2009: Promising approaches to address the needs of poor female farmers: Resources, constraints, and interventions

Agnes Quisumbing and Lauren Pandolfelli

2009: Natural disasters, self-Insurance, and human capital investment: Evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Malawi

Futoshi Yamauchi, Yisehac Yohannes and Agnes Quisumbing

2009: Risks, ex-ante actions, and public assistance: Impacts of natural disasters on child schooling in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Malawi

Futoshi Yamauchi, Yisehac Yohannes and Agnes Quisumbing

2009: Measuring child labor: Comparisons between hours data and subjective measures

Andrew Dillon

2009: The effects of political reservations for women on local governance and rural service provision

Katharina Raabe, Madhushree Sekher and Regina Birner

2009: Why is the Doha development agenda failing? And what can be done?: A computable general equilibrium-game theoretical approach

Bouët, Antoine and David Laborde Debucquet

2009: Priorities for realizing the potential to increase agricultural productivity and growth in Western and Central Africa

Alejandro Nin-Pratt, Michael Johnson, Eduardo C. Magalhaes, Xinshen Diao, Liangzhi You and Jordan Chamberlin

2009: Rethinking China’s underurbanization: An evaluation of its county-to-city upgrading policy

Shenggen Fan, Lixing Li and Xiaobo Zhang

2009: Agricultural trade liberalization and poverty in Brazil

Joachim Bento de Souza Ferreira Filho

2009: Economywide impacts of climate change on agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa

Alvaro Calzadilla, Katrin Rehdanz, Claudia Ringler, Richard Tol and Tingju Zhu

2009: Decentralization and local public services in Ghana: Do geography and ethnic diversity matter?

Kamiljon Akramov and Felix Ankomah Asante

2009: Soil and water conservation technologies: A buffer against production risk in the face of climate change?: Insights from the Nile Basin in Ethiopia

Elizabeth Bryan, Edward Kato, Claudia Ringler and Mahmud Yesuf

2009: Validation of the world food programme's food consumption score and alternative indicators of household food security

Lucy Bassett, Todd Benson, John Hoddinott and Doris Wiesmann

2009: Rebuilding after emergency: Revamping agricultural research in Sierra Leone after civil war

Kwadwo Asenso-okyere, Edward Rhodes, John Sutherland and Sindu Workneh

2009: Farmers' health status, agricultural efficiency, and poverty in rural Ethiopia: A stochastic production frontier approach

John Ulimwengu

2009: Joint water quantity/quality management analysis in a biofuel production area: Using an integrated economic-hydrologic model

Bruno Edson Albuquerque, Carlos Alberto Amorim, Ximing Cai, Claudia Ringler, da Rocha, Sérgio P. Vieira and Marcia Moraes

2009: Economywide impact of avian flu in Ghana: A dynamic CGE model analysis

Xinshen Diao

2009: Brazil: Shadow WTO agricultural domestic support notifications

Andre M. Nassar and Diego Ures

2009: HIV/AIDS, growth and poverty in KwaZulu-Natal and South Africa: Integrating firm-level surveys with demographic and economywide modeling

Gavin George, Jeff Gow and James Thurlow

2009: The short-run macroeconomic impact of foreign aid to small states: An agnostic time series analysis

Henrik Hansen and Derek Headey

2009: European Union preferential trade agreements with developing countries and their impact on Colombian and Kenyan carnation exports to the United Kingdom

Andrew Muhammad and Guyslain Ngeleza

2009: The linkages between agriculture and malaria: Issues for policy, research, and capacity strengthening

Kwaw Andam, Felix A. Asante, Kwadwo Asenso-okyere and Jifar Tarekegn

2009: La biotecnología agropecuaria en América Latina: Una visión cuantitativa

Falck-Zepeda, José, Falconi, César, Sampaio-Amstalden, Maria José, Solleiro Rebolledo, José Luis, Eduardo Trigo and Verástegui, Javier

2009: Preferential trade agreements between the monetary community of Central Africa and the European Union: Stumbling or building blocks? A general equilibrium approach

Andrew Muhammad and Guyslain Ngeleza

2009: Preliminary evidence on internal migration, remittances, and teen schooling in India

Valerie Mueller and Abusaleh Shariff

2009: Productivity convergence in Brazil: The case of grain production

Xinshen Diao and Eduardo Magalhaes

2009: Dynamics of structural transformation: An empirical characterization in the case of China, Malaysia, and Ghana

Thaddee Badibanga, Xinshen Diao, Terry Roe and Agapi Somwaru

2009: Do institutions limit clientelism?: A study of the district assemblies common fund in Ghana

Afua Banful

2009: The evolution of Chinese entrepreneurial firms: Township-village enterprises revisited

Chenggang Xu and Xiaobo Zhang

2009: Evaluating the impact of land tenure and titling on access to credit in Uganda

John Pender and Carly Petracco

2009: Participation by men and women in off-farm activities: An empirical analysis in rural northern Ghana

Nancy McCarthy and Yan Sun

2009: Measuring agricultural innovation system properties and performance: Illustrations from Ethiopia and Vietnam

Dawit Kelemework and David Spielman

2009: Are returns to mothers' human capital realized in the next generation?: The impact of mothers' intellectual human capital and long-run nutritional status on children's human capital in Guatemala

Jere Behrman, Alexis Murphy, Agnes Quisumbing and Kathryn Yount

2009: Understanding farmers' perceptions and adaptations to climate change and variability: The case of the Limpopo Basin, South Africa

Glwadys Aymone Gbetibouo

2009: Agglomeration, migration, and regional growth: A CGE analysis for Uganda

Paul Dorosh and James Thurlow

2009: Biosafety decisions and perceived commercial risks: The role of GM-free private standards

Gruère, Guillaume and Debdatta Sengupta

2009: Impact of soaring food price in Ethiopia: Does location matter?

Zelekawork Paulos, John Ulimwengu and Sindu Workneh

2009: Aggregate effects of imperfect tax enforcement

Luis Robles