Tewodaj Mogues is a Research Fellow in IFPRI. She joined the DSG division in February 2005 to undertake research on public investment for poverty reduction in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Nigeria. Dr. Mogues received her Bachelors degree in Economics from Kalamazoo College (1995), and her Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2005). She was born in Ethiopia and is a German citizen.

• Public investment for poverty reduction
• Local public finance and decentralisation
• Long-term effects of shocks on household assets and welfare
• Social capital
• Polarisation

• Ethiopia
• Ghana
• Nigeria
• Africa

• A Two-dimensional Measure of Polarisation
  2008. Mogues, T. IFPRI Discussion Paper 837.
• Reaching Middle-income Status in Ghana by 2015: Public Expenditures and Agricultural Growth
  2008. Benin, S., T. Mogues, G. Cudjoe, and J. Randriamamonjy. IFPRI Discussion Paper 811.
• Agricultural Public Spending in Nigeria
  2008. Mogues, T., M. Morris, L. Freinkman, A. Adubi, S. Ehui; with: C. Nwoko, O. Taiwo, C. Nege, P. Okonji, L. Chete. IFPRI Discussion Paper 789.
• From the Ground Up: Impacts of a Pro-poor Community-driven Development Project in Nigeria
  2008. Nkonya, E., D. Phillip, T. Mogues, J. Pender, M. K. Yahaya, G. Adebowale, T. Arokoyo, and E. Kato. IFPRI Discussion Paper 756.
• The Bang for the Birr: Public Expenditures and Rural Welfare in Ethiopia
  2008. Mogues, T.; Ayele, G.; Paulos, Z. IFPRI Research Report 160.
• Poverty Traps and Natural Disasters in Ethiopia and Honduras
  2007. Carter, M.R.; Little, P.D.; Mogues, T.; Negatu, W. World Development 35(5): 835-856.
• Moving In Place: Drought and Poverty Dynamics in South Wollo, Ethiopia
  2006. Little, P.D.; Stone, P.; Mogues, T.; Castro, P.; Negatu, W. Journal of Development Studies 42(2): 200-225.
• Shocks, Livestock Asset Dynamics, and Social Capital in Ethiopia
  2006. Mogues, T. DSGD Discussion Paper 38.
• Social Capital and the Reproduction of Economic Inequality in Polarised Societies
  2005. Mogues, T.; Carter, M.R. Journal of Economic Inequality 3(3): 193-219.
• Social Capital and Incentive Compatibility: Modelling the Accumulation and Use of Social Collateral
  2001. Mogues, T.; Carter, M.R. Staff Paper No. 460, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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