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Byline: Jennifer Denno Cissé

NBER Workshop Recap: Policy in the Presence of Poverty Trap Mechanisms

Jennifer Denno Cissé is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. Emilia Tjernström is an Assistant Professor of Public Affairs … More

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Conferences, Poverty

Global Challenges, Local Solutions

Matthew Graziose is a PhD candidate in behavioral nutrition at Columbia University. Jennifer Denno Cissé is a PhD candidate at … More

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Conferences, Food Security, Summaries and Reviews

From Improved Nutrition to Economic Development?

Jennifer Denno Cissé is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. Follow her on Twitter @jenncisse. The UNDP’s 1996 Human Development Report opens with the following statement … More

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Guatemala, Nutrition, Poverty

Food security as resilience

Joanna Upton is a Postdoctoral Associate and Jennifer Denno Cissé is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. The international community came to agreement … More

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Food Security, Kenya, Methods, Nutrition, Resilience

Resilience: Who are the non-resilient?

Jennifer Denno Cissé is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. Follow her on Twitter @jenncisse. With the growing focus on resilience programming among donors and implementers, … More

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Food and Agriculture, Methods, Poverty, Resilience

MIEDC 2015: highlights of young researchers’ work

Julia Berazneva is a PhD candidate, Jennifer Denno Cissé is a PhD student, and Joanna Upton is a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell’s Dyson … More

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Conferences, Summaries and Reviews

Resilience: So what is it anyway?

Jenn Denno Cissé is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School. Follow her on Twitter @jenncisse. Quite a bit of confusion, or at least disagreement, … More

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Climate Change, Poverty, Resilience

Resilience: Why all the hype?

Jenn Denno Cissé is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School. Follow her on Twitter @jenncisse. Although the engineering and ecological origins of the … More

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Climate Change, Poverty, Resilience

Intro to Resilience Series

Jenn Denno Cissé is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School. Follow her on Twitter @jenncisse. Given the recent excitement (and even occasional controversy) … More

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Climate Change, Poverty, Resilience
"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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