ESSP Working Paper 147, by Mekdim D. Regassa, Gashaw T. Abate, and Zaneta Kubik. Abstract: Increased deployment of agricultural extension agents (EAs) in rural areas is grounded on their importance to spur agricultural productivity and mitigate spatial imbalance in welfare. However, high turnover and low motivation level of EAs in remote areas pose a challenge for […]
ESSP Working Paper 146, by Bart Minten, Yetimwork Habte, Kaleab Baye, and Seneshaw Tamru. Abstract: Modern marketing arrangements are increasingly being implemented to assure improved food quality and safety. However, it is not well known how these modern marketing arrangements perform in early stages of roll-out. We study this issue in the case of rural-urban […]
IFPRI/ESSP is pleased to present its quarterly newsletter for the months of April - June 2020. The newsletter provides update on the recent presentations, blogs, latest publications and more.
Social protection policies typically involve multiple sectors, ranging from food security to health care. Despite this, limited research is directed toward understanding how different social protection programmes complement each other. We explore complementarities between three major national social protection programs in rural Ethiopia: the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP), the Community Based Health Insurance (CBHI) […]
The Journal of Health Economics and Health Economics are arguably the top two journals in the field of health economics. Together, they published 1,679 empirical research articles in the past decade (2010–2019). In line with analyses based on earlier periods, the empirical evidence in top health economics journals continues to be dominated by the United States (37% of all […]
In collaboration with the Livestock Systems Innovation Lab (LSIL), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has been doing collaborative work over the last 3 years with the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR) and Policy Studies Institute (PSI) to study the livestock sector in Ethiopia. Analysis has been done on the consumption and markets […]
COVID Impacts Food Consumption; New Country Sites; and More. Read more.
ESSP Working Paper 145, by Kalle Hirvonen, Gashaw T. Abate, and Alan de Brauw. Abstract: In early June 2020, we called by telephone a representative sample of nearly 600 households in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to assess income changes and household food and nutrition security status during the COVID-19 pandemic (survey period covering May). This was […]
Ethiopia has witnessed significant reductions in child mortality, undernutrition and communicable diseases, but more substantial and faster progress is still needed. ESSP Research Note 75, by Kaleab Baye and Kalle Hirvonen. Synopsis of Working Paper 144. Abstract: Ethiopia has witnessed significant reductions in child mortality, undernutrition and communicable diseases, but more substantial and faster progress […]
ESSP Working Paper 144, by Kaleab Baye and Kalle Hirvonen. Abstract: Ethiopia has witnessed significant reductions in child mortality, undernutrition, and communicable diseases, but more substantial and faster progress is still needed. The rise in obesity and in noncommunicable diseases, particularly in urban areas, is alarming and requires urgent policy and programmatic attention. Unhealthy diets […]
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