According to the OECD’s recently released 2021 Agricultural Policy Monitoring and Evaluation Report, the governments of 54 countries (including all OECD members and the European Union as a whole, plus key emerging economies) provided transfers to agriculture of around $720 billion per year during 2018-2020. The report notes that “Overall, most current support policies are not […]
Measuring employment and consumption in household surveys: Reflections from three survey experiments
July 13, 10:00 - 11:00 AM (EDT) Programs and policies designed to improve the lives of the poor often rely on an understanding of peoples’ livelihoods and welfare that is based on information collected during long, multi-topic household surveys. These survey efforts are invaluable tools for development practitioners, but choices made by those designing these […]
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Prices of vegetables and fruits in Ethiopia: Trends and implications for consumption and nutrition
ESSP Working Paper 157 by Fantu Nisrane Bachewe and Bart Minten. Abstract: We study price behavior of vegetables and fruits in Ethiopia over the 15 year period from 2005 to 2019 based on large-scale retail and producer price datasets. This is an important topic given the importance of prices for consumption decisions for these nutritious […]
Urban proximity, access to value chains, and dairy productivity in Ethiopia
This article analyzes how urban proximity introduces spatial heterogeneity in farm productivity within the high-value dairy sector in one of the poorest countries in Africa, Ethiopia. We look at how urban proximity—measured as travel time—affects the decisions and productivity of milk farmers located in rural production zones serving fresh milk to the capital Addis Ababa. […]
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