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New methods aren’t always silver bullets: Challenges with use of the inverse hyperbolic sine transformation for elasticity estimation

October 5, 2020

JULIE KURTZ

How do different types of expenditures relate to households’ overall budgets? To characterize this relationship, economists frequently use demand elasticities, which are the percent

Research

Policy seminar: COVID-19 impacts on African agricultural trade and food security

October 5, 2020

JULIE KURTZ

The COVID-19 pandemic has crippled a number of African agricultural exports, while dependency on food imports and lower purchasing power across much of the

Research

Agricultural extension

October 5, 2020

JULIE KURTZ

Agricultural transformation and development are critical to the livelihoods of more than a billion small-scale farmers and other rural people in developing countries. Extension

Articles

ETHIOPIA’S AGRIFOOD SYSTEM

October 5, 2020

JULIE KURTZ

Ethiopia has experienced impressive agricultural growth and poverty reduction, stemming in part from substantial public investments in agriculture. Yet, the agriculture sector now faces

Articles

Passing of Isher Judge Ahluwalia

October 5, 2020

JULIE KURTZ

Isher Judge Ahluwalia, an Indian economist, public policy researcher, and professor passed away on September 26, 2020. Ahluwalia was an IFPRI Board Member (2000-06)

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Survey: Despite COVID-19, food consumption remains steady in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

October 4, 2020

JULIE KURTZ

There is substantial concern that global food insecurity is increasing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Organizations such as the UN Food and Agriculture Organization

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Research

New methods aren’t always silver bullets: Challenges with use of the inverse hyperbolic sine transformation for elasticity estimation

October 5, 2020

JULIE KURTZ

How do different types of expenditures relate to households’ overall budgets? To characterize this relationship, economists frequently use demand elasticities, which are the percent

Research

Policy seminar: COVID-19 impacts on African agricultural trade and food security

October 5, 2020

JULIE KURTZ

The COVID-19 pandemic has crippled a number of African agricultural exports, while dependency on food imports and lower purchasing power across much of the

Research

Agricultural extension

October 5, 2020

JULIE KURTZ

Agricultural transformation and development are critical to the livelihoods of more than a billion small-scale farmers and other rural people in developing countries. Extension

Articles

ETHIOPIA’S AGRIFOOD SYSTEM

October 5, 2020

JULIE KURTZ

Ethiopia has experienced impressive agricultural growth and poverty reduction, stemming in part from substantial public investments in agriculture. Yet, the agriculture sector now faces

Articles

Passing of Isher Judge Ahluwalia

October 5, 2020

JULIE KURTZ

Isher Judge Ahluwalia, an Indian economist, public policy researcher, and professor passed away on September 26, 2020. Ahluwalia was an IFPRI Board Member (2000-06)

Articles

Survey: Despite COVID-19, food consumption remains steady in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

October 4, 2020

JULIE KURTZ

There is substantial concern that global food insecurity is increasing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Organizations such as the UN Food and Agriculture Organization

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