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Creative chaos: A review of Ben Ramalingam’s “Aid on the Edge of Chaos”

Erwin Knippenberg is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School. According to Nobel Prize winner Elinor Ostrom “Practitioners and scholars … More

Index-based insurance: Insurance or lottery tickets?

Nathan Jensen is a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell’s Dyson School who is working with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). … More

Improving agricultural productivity while sequestering carbon

Julia Berazneva is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market. For the majority of the … More

The distributional consequences of group procurement: In practice (part 2)

Paul Christian is a Research Associate at Cornell’s Dyson School.  In an earlier post I described how in-kind transfers of … More

The distributional consequences of group procurement: In theory (part 1)

Paul Christian is a Research Associate at Cornell’s Dyson School.  Making sure that the benefits of poverty programs most accrue … More

Household survey safari: (almost) Overland from Woldya to Mwanza

Ellen McCullough is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. Without data, those of us seeking to apply economics to … More

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

Revisiting our macro-level views on agricultural input use in Africa using micro-level data

Megan Sheahan is a Research Support Specialist at Cornell’s Dyson School. Before I spent a summer in western Kenya helping … More

Using a big data approach to study daily cooking behaviors in the developing world

Andrew Simons is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. What are the biggest problems facing the world today? If you … More