Dr. Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin joined IFPRI in July 2004 to lead the new Ethiopia Country Strategy Support Program. Based in Addis Ababa, the program will collaborate closely with the Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI) and other Ethiopian research institutions. Prior to joining IFPRI, Dr. Gabre-Madhin was a Senior Sector Economist in the Environment and Socially Sustainable Development (ESSD) Department, Africa Region, of the World Bank in Washington, DC. An Ethiopian national, Dr. Gabre-Madhin, has held positions as a research fellow in the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division of IFPRI and as an economist and commodity trading expert at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva. She holds a Ph.D. in applied economics from Stanford University and received the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the American Agricultural Economics Association in 1999. Her research has focused on market reforms, market institutions, and structural transformation in Africa.

• Ethiopia Strategy Support Program

• Successes in African Agriculture
  Gabre-Madhin, Eleni. World Development, May 2003. Also Published as MTID Discussion Paper 53.
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• Can Africa Achieve a Market-Led Agricultural Revolution?
  Gabre-Madhin, Eleni.Journal of International Development. 2004.
• Increasing Returns and Market Efficiency in African Agricultural Trade
  Gabre-Madhin, Eleni. Journal of Development Economics 2003. Also Published as MTID Discussion Paper 60.
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• Reforming Agricultural Markets in Africa
  Gabre-Madhin, Eleni. ohns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
• Transaction Costs, Social Capital, and Market Institutions in the Ethiopian Grain Market
  Gabre-Madhin, Eleni. IFPRI Research Report 124. 2001.
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