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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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Liangzhi You

Liangzhi You is a Senior Research Fellow and theme leader in the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit, based in Washington, DC. His research focuses on climate resilience, spatial data and analytics, agroecosystems, and agricultural science policy. Gridded crop production data of the world (SPAM) and the agricultural technology evaluation model (DREAM) are among his research contributions. 

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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.

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The World Bank’s main focus is to decrease poverty and to promote shared prosperity by fostering income growth of the bottom 40% for every country. The World Bank works in every major area of development, helping to end poverty and boost prosperity for the poorest people, and create sustainable economic growth. The World Bank Group is a leading financier of agriculture, with $2.9 billion in new commitments in 2016.

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Projects

Integrated Agricultural Growth Project in the Great Lakes

Integrated Agricultural Growth Project in the Great Lakes

The Integrated Project on Agricultural Growth in the Great Lakes region (PICAGL) aims to increase agricultural productivity and marketing of four value chains (cassava, rice,……

Transfer Modality Research Initiative (TMRI)

Transfer Modality Research Initiative (TMRI)

From 2012 to 2014, IFPRI partnered with the World Food Programme on a two-year pilot safety net program – the Transfer Modality Research Initiative (TMRI)……

Integrated Food Policy and Research Program (IFPRP)

Integrated Food Policy and Research Program (IFPRP)

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Publications

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Would you rather? Household choice between cash transfers or an economic inclusion program

2024Allen IV, James; Gilligan, Daniel O.; Kurdi, Sikandra; Yassa, Basma
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Would you rather? Household choice between cash transfers or an economic inclusion program

We study households’ choice between continued cash transfers and a new economic inclusion program—two global prevalent social protection programs—offered by the Egyptian government. Lower-than-expected early adoption of the new program is correlated with differing perceptions on its design. We randomize official messaging to households describing the new program’s (i) consumption support duration and (ii) income-earning potential. Both treatments increase respondents’ likelihood of recommending the new program. A theoretical model estimated using households’ perceptions of program design predicts interest in the new program, and how it diminishes with increasing effort costs, asset loss probability, risk aversion and loss aversion.

Year published

2024

Authors

Allen IV, James; Gilligan, Daniel O.; Kurdi, Sikandra; Yassa, Basma

Citation

Allen IV, James; Gilligan, Daniel O.; Kurdi, Sikandra; and Yassa, Basma. 2024. Would you rather? Household choice between cash transfers or an economic inclusion program. MENA Working Paper 44. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/158340

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Egypt

Keywords

Africa; Northern Africa; Social Protection; Poverty; Poverty Reduction; Cash Transfers

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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Price and volatility transmission from international to domestic food and fertilizer markets in Central America

2024Hernandez, Manuel A.; Ceballos, Francisco; Berrospi, Maria Lucia; Perego, Viviana Maria Eugenia; Brown, Melissa; Lopez, Elena Mora
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Price and volatility transmission from international to domestic food and fertilizer markets in Central America

Following recent major global shocks that resulted in significant spikes in international food and fertilizer prices, this study analyses the degree of price and volatility transmission from international to selected domestic food and fertilizer markets across seven countries in Central America. We follow a multivariate GARCH approach using monthly data over the period 2000–2022. We find varying results by country and commodities and an overall low to moderate degree of price transmission in levels, but a stronger degree of volatility transmission. We similarly observe some changes in the degree of co-movement between international and domestic price variations over time—depending on the market and commodity under consideration—including after the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as well as after the 2007-2008 food price crisis. Back-of-the-envelope calculations of the effect of an increase in international prices of different food and fertilizers mimicking the peak inflation observed in 2022 reveal small yet non-negligible effects on consumer and producer welfare in Central American countries, which however do not match the magnitude of the food security crisis observed in the region.

Year published

2024

Authors

Hernandez, Manuel A.; Ceballos, Francisco; Berrospi, Maria Lucia; Perego, Viviana Maria Eugenia; Brown, Melissa; Lopez, Elena Mora

Citation

Hernandez, Manuel A.; Ceballos, Francisco; Berrospi, Maria Lucia; Perego, Viviana Maria Eugenia; Brown, Melissa; and Lopez, Elena Mora. 2024. Price and volatility transmission from international to domestic food and fertilizer markets in Central America. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2299. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute

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Central America; Shock; Food Prices; Fertilizers; Markets; Price Volatility; Inflation; Food Security; Welfare

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English

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Open Access

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Leveraging unsupervised machine learning to examine women’s vulnerability to climate change

2024Caruso, German; Mueller, Valerie; Villacis, Alexis
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Leveraging unsupervised machine learning to examine women’s vulnerability to climate change

We provide an application of machine learning to identify the distributional consequences of climate change in Malawi. We compare climate impact estimates based on drought indicators established objectively from the k-means algorithm to more traditional measures. Young women affected by drought were 5 percentage points more likely to be married by 18 than those living in nondrought areas. Our approach generates robust results when varying the number of clusters and definition of treatment status. In some cases, we find the design using k-means to define treatment is more likely to satisfy the assumptions underlying the difference-in-differences strategy than when using arbitrary thresholds. Projections from the estimates indicate future drought risk may lead to larger declines in labor productivity due to women’s engagement in early age marriage than other factors affecting their participation rates. Under the extreme representative concentration pathway scenario, drought exposure encourages the exit of 3.3 million women workers by 2100.

Year published

2024

Authors

Caruso, German; Mueller, Valerie; Villacis, Alexis

Citation

Caruso, German; Mueller, Valerie; and Villacis, Alexis. 2024. Leveraging unsupervised machine learning to examine women’s vulnerability to climate change. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 46(4): 1355-1378. https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13444

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Machine Learning; Women; Vulnerability; Climate Change

Language

English

Access/Licence

Limited Access

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Gender

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Events

Are healthy diets affordable? Using new data on retail prices and diet costs to guide agricultural and food policy
IFPRI Policy Seminar

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July 15, 2022, 10:00 – 11:30 am

Are healthy diets affordable? Using new data on retail prices and diet costs to guide agricultural and food policy

Virtual Event: July 15, 2022 – 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM EDT. This Policy Seminar will feature Food Prices for Nutrition project leaders and participants around the world, who will discuss how policy analysts and researchers can use the new methods and data in their own work.

Can agricultural policies deliver better value for money for people, the planet, and the economy?
IFPRI Policy Seminar

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February 2, 2022, 9:30 – 11:00 am

Can agricultural policies deliver better value for money for people, the planet, and the economy?

Virtual Event: Feb 02, 2022 – 09:30 AM to 11:00 AM EST. This policy seminar will present a summary of the latest IFPRI-World Bank research findings and feature speakers discussing the need for more rapid adoption of technological solutions that foster less emissions-intensive productivity growth across developed and developing countries alike.

Transforming Food Systems after COVID-19: Implications of the 2021 Global Food Policy Report for Eurasia
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May 27, 2021, 7:30 – 9:00 am

Transforming Food Systems after COVID-19: Implications of the 2021 Global Food Policy Report for Eurasia

Virtual Event: MAY 27,2021 – 07:30 AM TO 9:00 AM EDT. The impact of COVID-19 on transforming food systems in the Eurasia Region.

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Blogs

Egypt’s experience bridging cash transfers and an economic inclusion program for sustainable social protection
IFPRI Blog
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December 18, 2024

Egypt’s experience bridging cash transfers and an economic inclusion program for sustainable social protection

By James Allen IV, Daniel Gilligan, Sikandra Kurdi, and Basma Yassa

A path for moving out of poverty.

Trade policy and food price volatility: Beggar thy neighbor or beggar thyself?
IFPRI Blog
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June 07, 2024

Trade policy and food price volatility: Beggar thy neighbor or beggar thyself?

By Will Martin, Abdullah Mamun, Nick Minot, and Rob Vos

The downsides of emergency trade measures.

The long-run effect of public works employment: Evidence from Tunisia
IFPRI Blog
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May 25, 2023

The long-run effect of public works employment: Evidence from Tunisia

By Jessica Leight and Eric Mvukiyehe

Evaluating the impacts of workfare.

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