The National Bureau of Economic Research and the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Assets and Market Access held an intensive … More
Tag: Poverty
Should bureaucrats in capital cities decide exactly how much aid a villager receives?
Andrew Simons is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market. Who should have … More
A reminder for those thinking about poverty traps
Nathan Jensen is a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell’s Dyson School who is working with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). … More
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
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
Looking beyond the lamplight: Measuring resilience in Somalia*
Joanna Upton is a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell’s Dyson School. A policeman walking along a dark road spies a man looking … More
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
Year of Soils 2015: Productivity and poverty
Julia Berazneva and Leah Bevis are PhD candidates at Cornell’s Dyson School. Soils are a fundamental resource for smallholder farmers: they support … More
Year of Soils 2015: Why we should care
Leah Bevis and Julia Berazneva are PhD candidates at Cornell’s Dyson School. On December 5th of 2014 the UN Secretary General Ban Ki … More
Improved poverty targeting through machine learning (part 2)
Linden McBride is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School As discussed in a prior post, the objective of proxy means … More