- "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: December 2015
Should bureaucrats in capital cities decide exactly how much aid a villager receives?
Andrew Simons is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market. Who should have the final say on social assistance program implementation: bureaucrats in the capital city or local communities? Arguments favoring decentralized implementation … Continue reading →
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Tagged aid, Ethiopia, job market paper, poverty, public sector & governance, targeting
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Gender research beyond fairy tales: we can still do more and better
Isabel Lambrecht is an Associate Research Fellow at IFPRI’s office in Ghana and a former visiting scholar at Cornell’s Dyson School. As I embarked on a PhD, gender was the topic my advisor wanted me to include in my research. … Continue reading →
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Tagged agriculture & rural development, DRC, gender, technology adoption
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