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Food price shocks: Is there empirical evidence of a link to poverty traps?

Adamon Mukasa is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Trento, Italy and … More

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Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Methods, Uganda

Deconstructing the risks: A review of Andrew Karolyi’s “Cracking the Emerging Markets Enigma”

Parul Sharma is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. Two factors—the rate of domestic capital formation and the inflow … More

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Comparative Studies of Countries, Finance, Firms, Risk, Summaries and Reviews

Food price shocks: Are we over or under estimating the welfare effects?

Adamon Mukasa is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Trento, Italy and … More

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Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Methods, Uganda

Introduction to food price shocks series

Adamon Mukasa is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Trento, Italy and … More

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Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Uganda

Multidisciplinary approaches to analysis and fieldwork: High-quality coffee markets in Colombia

Juan N. Hernández-Aguilera, Mary Kate Wheeler, and Romane Viennet are all members of Cornell’s Dyson School. Juan is a PhD … More

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Colombia, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Methods, Risk, Technology

Call for papers: Conference on Size and Type Dependent Regulations

Cornell’s Ravi Kanbur and the Inter‐American Development Bank’s Santiago Levy are organizing a conference in Ithaca, NY on October 1-2, … More

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Conferences, Public Sector & Governance

Year of Soils 2015: Food quality and health

Leah Bevis and Julia Berazneva are PhD candidates at Cornell’s Dyson School.  As discussed in our previous post, soil quality influences the marginal … More

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Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Health, Nutrition, Poverty, Sub-Saharan Africa

Lessons from implementing a field survey in India

Soumya Gupta is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and a research scholar with the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition … More

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Fieldwork, Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Gender, Health, Human Capital, India, Nutrition

A tribute to Cornell’s role in global poverty reduction

Megan Sheahan is a Research Support Specialist at Cornell’s Dyson School. Cornell University is celebrating its 150th birthday, its sesquicentennial, … More

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Aid, Education, Environment, Firms, Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Gender, Health, Social

Designing a robust profitability tool for targeting agricultural interventions

Julianne Quinn is a PhD student in Cornell’s School of Civil & Environmental Engineering. Far too often, agricultural interventions are … More

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Climate Change, Ethiopia, Food and Agriculture, Risk, Technology

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Nobel Lecture, 1979
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