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  • Assessing the Affordability of Nutrient-Adequate Diets (English)

    The affordability of nutritious diets is increasingly used as a metric of how well a food system provides access to nutritious diets for all. Recent work on least-cost diets has focused on individuals...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS9834 Document Date: November 3, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Schneider,Kate,Christiaensen,Luc,Webb,Patrick J.,Masters,William Alan

  • Distortions to agricultural incentives in Africa (English)

    One of every two people in Sub-Saharan Africa survives on less than $1.25 a day. That proportion has changed little over the past three decades, unlike in Asia and elsewhere, so the region's share of global...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 47769 Document Date: March 13, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Anderson,Kym,Masters,William Alan

  • Distortions to agricultural incentives in Sub-Saharan and North Africa (English)

    This chapter begins with a brief summary of economic growth and structural changes in the region since the 1950s and of agricultural and other economic policy developments as they affected the farm sector...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 56129 Document Date: September 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Anderson,Kym,Masters,William Alan

  • Distortions to agricultural incentives in Africa (English)

    This paper summarizes a set of case studies measuring distortions within and across countries over time. It is part of a global research project seeking to improve our understanding of agricultural policy...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 56028 Document Date: December 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Anderson,Kym,Masters,William Alan

  • Distortions to agricultural incentives in Cameroon (Vol. 1 of 2) : Main report (English)

    Cameroon is among the more prosperous countries in Africa, thanks to relatively abundant agricultural land and offshore petroleum. These spurred an economic boom from unification of the country in 1972...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 56031 Document Date: December 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bamou,Ernest,Masters,William Alan

  • Distortions to agricultural incentives in Senegal (Vol. 1 of 2) : Main report (English)

    This chapter provides an overview and measurement of distortions to agricultural incentives in Senegal from 1961 through 2004. Senegalese agriculture is unusually specialized in just three products: groundnuts...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 56043 Document Date: December 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Masters,William Alan