Ruth Hill
Research Fellow
Markets, Trade and Institutions
r.v.hill@cgiar.org
Ruth Hill joined IFPRI in January 2007. Ruth received a PhD in economics from the University of Oxford in 2005. Her thesis examined the impact of uncertainty on the welfare and production decisions coffee farmers in Uganda. As part of her doctoral research she also looked at the marketing behavior of farmers and coffee traders in the domestic coffee market in Uganda. Since receiving her PhD she has worked for the Centre for the Study of African Economies at the University of Oxford, and for the Rural Development and Research Departments at the World Bank. During this time she worked on the development of crop markets and rural institutions in Benin, Malawi, India and Laos. For details on current research and publications visit her personal webpage: http://ruth.vargashill.googlepages.com/
Countries/Regions of Expertise
Selected Publications
Price Transmission and Trader Entry in Domestic Commodity Markets
Forthcoming. Fafchamps, Marcel; Hill, Ruth Vargas. Economic Development and Cultural Change.-
2007. Ahmed, Akhter; Hill, Ruth Vargas; Smith, Lisa; Wiesmann, Doris; Frankenberger, Tim. IFPRI 2020 Discussion Paper No. 43.
Quality Control and the Marketing of Non-staple Crops in India
2007. Fafchamps, Marcel; Hill, Ruth Vargas; Minten, Bart. In Global Supply Chains, Standards and the Poor. Jo Swinnen (ed). CABI, Cambridge, MA. The Role of Risk in Shaping Production Decisions: an Empirical Analysis
2006. Hill, Ruth Vargas. Global Poverty Research Group Working Paper Series, No. 49. Coffee Price Risk in the Market: Exporter, Trader and Producer Data from Uganda
2006. Hill, Ruth Vargas. Global Poverty Research Group Working Paper Series, No. 48. Selling at the Farmgate or Traveling to Market
2005. Fafchamps, Marcel; Hill, Ruth Vargas. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 87, No. 3, pp. 717-734.
