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Month: 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, … More

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Finance, Kenya, Risk, Social

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 … More

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DRC, Food and Agriculture, Ghana, Risk, Technology

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 … More

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Comparative Studies of Countries, Food and Agriculture, Labor, Sub-Saharan Africa

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 … More

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Aid, Editorial, Public Sector & Governance
"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."
Theodore Schultz
Nobel Lecture, 1979
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