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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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Why World Hunger Isn’t Going Away As Fast As We’d Hoped (NPR)

October 17, 2017


NPR’s Morning Edition ran a feature on the Global Hunger Index 2017, recently launched by IFPRI. The news outlet interviewed IFPRI’s Markets, Trade and Institutions’ director, Rob Vos, who explained that despite a drop in the global hunger levels, quite a few countries are at serious risk of hunger or alarming states of hunger. “If we don’t do a lot more then this, goal of ending hunger will not be met,” Vos added. 

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