Mulubrhan Amare is a Research Fellow in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. He is a quantitative development microeconomist whose research focuses on impact programs, rural institutions and agricultural transformation, poverty and livelihood diversification, and migration and development. He has investigated the impact of agricultural productivity and migration on welfare distribution and rural development, and his current work examines determinants of chronic child malnutrition in Nigeria as well as linkages between income diversification and agricultural productivity of countries in Africa south of the Sahara. Prior to joining IFPRI, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Partnership for Economic Policy, Nairobi, Kenya. Amare received his PhD in Economics with a focus on Development and Agricultural Economics from Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany, in 2015.