- "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: August 2015
Can financial inclusion exclude? Some negative consequences of microsaving programs
Felipe Dizon is a PhD candidate in Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis. In 2013 alone, donors pledged $31 billion to support financial inclusion. In the past, microcredit and insurance programs received all of the attention, … Continue reading →
Are cash-crop growing farmers better off?
Aurélie Harou is a post-doctoral research fellow at Columbia University’s Earth Institute Agriculture and Food Security Center. Walking through the fertile but dangerous fields of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 2007-2008, I was bewildered by the disparity between … Continue reading →
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Africa’s hidden underemployment sink*
Ellen McCullough is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market. Labor productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa has been garnering attention recently. Development economists focus on labor productivity because it tends to be strongly associated … Continue reading →
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Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals
Erwin Knippenberg is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School. In September, the United Nations General Assembly intends to adopt one of the most ambitious and comprehensive agendas the international community has ever seen, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Meant … Continue reading →