By Akhter Ahmed, Country Representative, IFPRI-Bangladesh The latest findings from the 2022 Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES), published by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) in December 2023, reveal remarkable reductions in poverty... Source: IFPRI Bangladesh Country Office
Op-ed: How to make the AIP more cost-effective
In this Op-ed IFPRI-Malawi's Jack Thunde and Edwin Kenamu discuss some factors that could help the AIP accomplish its goals.
Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program
Africa’s Litigated Democracy
Project Syndicate published an op-ed by IFPRI's Senior Research Fellows Bob Baulch and Danielle Resnick. The op-ed discusses Malawi’s litigated general elections and compares it to re-run elections held in other African countries. The authors suggest f... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program
Op-ed: Will structured markets really deliver higher prices for Malawian farmers?
*This op-ed was written by Dr. Bob Baulch, Program Leader for IFPRI Malawi, Lilongwe. When I first came back to Malawi, two-and-a-half years ago, I had barely heard the term ‘structured markets’─ despite having spent most of the previous 25 years working on agricultural marketing issues in over 20 developing countries. When I asked my IFPRI colleagues >> Read more Source: Malawi Strategy Support Program
Op-ed: Is smuggling of maize necessarily bad?
In recent days, MDF troops have been deployed to the northern border to prevent the smuggling of maize into Tanzania and Zambia. While this action seems a natural response during a year of national food shortage, four factors should give us pause for thought.
