- "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: October 2016
You’re Approved! Insured Loans Improve Credit Access and Technology Adoption of Ghanaian Farmers
Khushbu Mishra is a PhD Candidate in Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at Ohio State University and is currently on the job market. Increasing agricultural efficiency is key to reducing poverty in developing agrarian economies such as those in Sub-Saharan … Continue reading →
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Characterizing Regional Suitability for Index Based Livestock Insurance
Chris Mills is a PhD student in Economics at Princeton University and a recent graduate in Economics and Computer Science at Cornell Pastoral populations of Sub-Saharan Africa are particularly vulnerable to environmental shocks, which contribute to livestock mortality and therefore losses … Continue reading →