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With research staff from more than 60 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

Agnes Quisumbing

Agnes Quisumbing is a Senior Research Fellow in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit. She co-leads a research program that examines how closing the gap between men’s and women’s ownership and control of assets may lead to better development outcomes.

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IFPRI currently has more than 600 employees working in over 80 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

Can Myanmar Sustain Growth Momentum? (Nikkei Asian Review)

February 07, 2017


The Nikkei Asian Review quoted a research blog post by Senior Program Manager Adam Kennedy that highlighted the need to boost agricultural productivity in Myanmar in order to raise rural incomes and reduce poverty and malnutrition. The article discussed the other barriers to sustained economic growth in Myanmar including a changing economic focus, an uncertain legal climate, and a lack of foreign investment. 

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