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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.

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Carlo Azzarri

Carlo Azzarri is a Senior Research Fellow in the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit. His work focuses on the relationships among poverty, nutrition, food security, agriculture, the environment, production, and migration—analyzed at both micro and macroeconomic levels, primarily using quantitative methods.

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Skin in the game: Microequity and mentorship for online freelancing-based microentrepreneurs in Bangladesh

2021Bakhtiar, M. Mehrab; Meki, Muhammad; Quinn, Simon; Shonchoy, Abu
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Skin in the game: Microequity and mentorship for online freelancing-based microentrepreneurs in Bangladesh

In this pilot project, we demonstrate the exciting potential of online freelancing for improving the incomes of poor youth in rural Bangladesh. We also highlight the constraints to this type of work: financing constraints for the high training cost, access to the necessary work infrastructure, and soft skills requirements to success in the market. We shed light on some promising possibilities for innovative financing contracts and for ‘virtual exporting companies’ to act as freelancing incubators and assist students in their development.

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2021

Authors

Bakhtiar, M. Mehrab; Meki, Muhammad; Quinn, Simon; Shonchoy, Abu

Citation

Bakhtiar, M. Mehrab; Meki, Muhammad; Quinn, Simon; and Shonchoy, Abu. 2021. Skin in the game: Microequity and mentorship for online freelancing-based microentrepreneurs in Bangladesh. PEDL ERG Research 5246. Private Enterprise Development in Low-Income Countries (PEDL). https://pedl.cepr.org/publications/skin-game-microequity-and-mentorship-online-freelancing-based-microentrepreneurs

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Bangladesh

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Southern Asia; Asia; Income; Youth Employment; Policies; Training; Capacity Development; Youth; Labour; Microenterprises; Credit; Rural Areas; Skill Training

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English

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Open Access

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Africa in global agricultural trade

2019Bouët, Antoine; Cosnard, Lionel; Fall, Cheickh Sadibou
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Africa in global agricultural trade

It is commonly agreed that trade integration can contribute to the acceleration of economic growth and to poverty alleviation. This is one of the main reasons why African leaders committed at Malabo in 2014 to tripling intra-Africa trade in agricultural commodities and services by 2025. This trade commitment package includes the establishment of a continental free trade area and a continental common external tariff. Its objective is also “to increase and facilitate investment in markets and trade infrastructure” (AUC 2014, 5).

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2019

Authors

Bouët, Antoine; Cosnard, Lionel; Fall, Cheickh Sadibou

Citation

Bouet, Antoine; Cosnard, Lionel; and Fall, Cheickh Sadibou. 2019. Africa in global agricultural trade. In Africa agriculture trade monitor 2019. Bouët, Antoine and Odjo, Sunday P. (Eds.) Chapter 2 Pp. 17-41. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147087

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Eastern Africa; Africa; Western Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Southern Africa; Imports; Exports; Trade; Production Possibilities

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896296909_02 Source record

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Book Chapter

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A global trading system in turmoil: What is at stake for Africa?

2019Bouët, Antoine; Traoré, Fousseini; Laborde Debucquet, David
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A global trading system in turmoil: What is at stake for Africa?

The trade war between the United States and China involves the two largest players in the world economy (i.e., the two countries with the largest GDPs, and the largest exporters and importers). Consequently, increasing trade tensions between these two giants are a major stake and it is expected that these tensions will negatively affect third countries through spillover effects. Trade tensions may also become even more important and may potentially concern other players in the world economy. This is why the global trading system appears to be today in turmoil.

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2019

Authors

Bouët, Antoine; Traoré, Fousseini; Laborde Debucquet, David

Citation

Bouët, Antoine; Traoré, Fousseini; and Laborde Debucquet, David. 2019. A global trading system in turmoil: What is at stake for Africa? In Africa agriculture trade monitor 2019. Bouët, Antoine and Odjo, Sunday P. (Eds.) Chapter 5 Pp. 109-131. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146565

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Eastern Africa; Africa; Western Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Southern Africa; Imports; Exports; Trade; Production Possibilities

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896296909_05 Source record

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Book Chapter

Article has an altmetric score of 6