- "Most of the people in the world are poor, so if we knew the economics of being poor, we would know much of the economics that really matters. Most of the world's poor people earn their living from agriculture, so if we knew the economics of agriculture, we would know much of the economics of being poor."
Theodore Schultz
Nobel Lecture, 1979
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Monthly Archives: April 2015
Food price shocks: How do uncertainties affect land allocation decisions?
Adamon Mukasa is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Trento, Italy and a former Visiting Scholar at Cornell’s Dyson School. He is currently on the job market. In this last installment of my … Continue reading →
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Food price shocks: Is there empirical evidence of a link to poverty traps?
Adamon Mukasa is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Trento, Italy and a former Visiting Scholar at Cornell’s Dyson School. He is currently on the job market. In my previous post in this series, I … Continue reading →
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Deconstructing the risks: A review of Andrew Karolyi’s “Cracking the Emerging Markets Enigma”
Parul Sharma is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. Two factors—the rate of domestic capital formation and the inflow of external investment capital—are fundamental to releasing capital constraints in emerging markets and unlocking their full potential for economic growth. … Continue reading →
Food price shocks: Are we over or under estimating the welfare effects?
Adamon Mukasa is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Trento, Italy and a former Visiting Scholar at Cornell’s Dyson School. He is currently on the job market. Research on the welfare effects … Continue reading →
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Introduction to food price shocks series
Adamon Mukasa is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Trento, Italy and a former Visiting Scholar at Cornell’s Dyson School. He is currently on the job market. The majority of households in … Continue reading →
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