Impact Assessment Discussion Papers

This assessment focuses on IFPRI’s research program, Strengthening Food Policy through Intrahousehold Analysis,” within the Food Consumption and Nutrition Division (F [...]

IFPRI, traditionally a centralized development organization, is now embracing networks as one institutional strategy to achieve “regional decentralization.” Since 199 [...]

This report assesses the impact of IFPRI’s Global Research Program on The Sustainable Development of Less-Favored Areas (“GRP-5”). Initiated in 1998, the stated obj [...]

The objective of this study is to attempt to characterize the influence and impact of IFPRI in relation to the Mexican PROGRESA/Oportunidades anti-poverty and human resou [...]

"Why is an economywide approach helpful for analyzing food policies, and what has been the impact of that part of IFPRI's activities over the past decade? This paper (the [...]

"This paper evaluates the influence and impact that IFPRI research and related activities had on the initiation, evolution, and impact of the food for education (FFE) pro [...]

This report assesses the impact of IFPRI’s work on the agriculture negotiations in the WTO’s Doha Round. It is set against the context of IFPRI’s mission which emph [...]

Policy research is valuable as a source of information for decisionmakers. The value of research is the expected social gain from policy decisions influenced by the infor [...]

Since its earliest years IFPRI has conducted research on food subsidies, concentrating on methods to achieve the social objectives of subsidies without undue distortion o [...]

This paper addresses the problem of how to measure the benefits of policy-oriented social science research. It argues that social science research promotes economic effic [...]