Akhter Ahmed is a senior research fellow who co-leads IFPRI's Global and Regional Program on Large-Scale Human Capital Interventions. He joined IFPRI in 1990. He works on strategies for restructuring social protection and safety net programs to improve the food security, nutrition and livelihoods of the poor in developing countries. Ahmed was posted in Bangladesh from 1990 to 1994, where he worked on targeted interventions and participated in designing the innovative food for education program. From 1996 to 1999 he was posted in Egypt as the leader of IFPRI's collaborative project on food security research. During 2000-2006, Ahmed worked on poverty and human development issues in Bangladesh, China, India, Malawi, and the Philippines. Currently he is leading an impact evaluation of the conditional cash transfer program in Turkey. Before coming to IFPRI, Ahmed worked with the World Bank and was an agricultural economist for the U.S. Agency for International Development. He received a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from Colorado State University, and an M.S. in agricultural economics from Cornell University.

• Large-Scale Interventions to Enhance Human Capital
• Evaluation of human development interventions
• Demand-side analysis of food policy

• Bangladesh
• China
• Egypt
• Malawi
• India
• Philippines
• Turkey
• North Africa
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• South Asia
• Southeast Asia

• Do crowded classrooms crowd out learning? Evidence from the food for education program in Bangladesh
  2006. Ahmed, A.; Arends-Kuenning, M. World Development 34 (4): 665-684.
• Feeding minds while fighting poverty: Food for education in Bangladesh
  2005. Ahmed, A.; del Ninno, C. In Economic reforms and food security: The impact of trade and technology in South Asia, ed. S. Babu and A. Gulati. New York: The Haworth Press.
• Chronic and transitory poverty: Evidence from Egypt, 1997-1999
  2003. Haddad, L.; Ahmed, A. World Development 31 (1): 71-85.
• Weighing what’s practical: Proxy means testing for targeting food subsidies in Egypt
  2002. Ahmed, A.; Bouis, H. Food Policy 27: 519-540.
• The Egyptian food subsidy system: Structure, performance, and options for reform
  2001. Ahmed, A.; Bouis, H.; Gutner, T.; Löfgren, H. Research Report 119. Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute.
• Trends in consumption, nutrition, and poverty
  2000. Ahmed, A. In Out of the shadow of famine: Evolving food markets and food policy in Bangladesh, ed. R. Ahmed, S. Haggblade, and T. E. Chowdury. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Targeted distribution
  2000. Ahmed, A. In Out of the shadow of famine: Evolving food markets and food policy in Bangladesh, ed. R. Ahmed, S. Haggblade, and T. E. Chowdury. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Effects of irrigation-induced technological change in Bangladesh rice production
  1992. Ahmed, A.; Sampath, R. K. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 74 (1): 144-157.
• Poverty in Bangladesh: Measurement, decomposition and intertemporal comparison
  1991. Ahmed, A.; Khan, H. A.; Sampath, R. K. The Journal of Development Studies 27 (4): 48-63.
• Welfare implications of tubewell irrigation in Bangladesh
  1988. Ahmed, A., and R. K. Sampath. Water Resources Bulletin, American Water Resources Association 24 (5): 1057-1063.