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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.

The first threshold of combating outbreak: Inequalities (Dunyabluteni.net)

April 15, 2020


Dunyabluteni.net (Turkey) published an article on where the poor might stand after the COVID-19 moves from country to county. In the IFPRI blogpost, How much will global poverty increase because of COVID-19, Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division Director Rob Vos and Senior Research Fellows Will Martin and David Laborde estimate that any 1% contraction in the global economy will increase the number of the poor and, however, the number of people without food security by 2% (about 14 million people). 

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