- "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: May 2016
Farmer Learning through Information Transfers: The Effect of Soil Testing on Farmer Demand for Agricultural Inputs
David Murphy is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. A recent blog post described how farmers in the developing world form perceptions about soil fertility, and how those perceptions correspond with high-resolution interpolated data … Continue reading →
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Tagged agriculture & rural development, fieldwork, Kenya, soils
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MIEDC 2016: Recap
Jeff Bloem is a MS student in Michigan State University’s Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics and is beginning a PhD in Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota in the fall. Leah Bevis is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s … Continue reading →
The Growth-Employment-Poverty Nexus in Latin America in the 2000s
David Jaume is a PhD student in Cornell’s Department of Economics. In a recent UNU-WIDER project Gary Fields, Guillermo Cruces and Mariana Viollaz and I undertook an extensive analysis of the nexus between economic growth, employment conditions and poverty during … Continue reading →
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Tagged comparative studies of countries, economic growth, labor markets, Latin America, poverty
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