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Erick Boy

Erick Boy

Erick Boy is the Chief Nutritionist in the HarvestPlus section of the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit. As head of nutrition for the HarvestPlus Program since 2008, he has led research that has generated scientific evidence on biofortified staple crops as efficacious and effective interventions to help address iron, vitamin A, and zinc deficiency in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and South Asia.

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50 years of Bangladesh: Why chase higher growth rates if even distribution can do more for the same? (Dhaka Tribune)

December 10, 2021


Dhaka Tribune published an article writing that only in a few exceptional cases, a well-orchestrated strategy of making growth more inclusive was able to simultaneously attain higher growth and lower inequality. The article mentions a paper titled Ascent, Descent, Churning, Persistence and Permanent Escape: Contemporary Poverty Dynamics in Rural Bangladesh, the authors provided new evidence on the poverty dynamics in Bangladesh in the 2010s using the three rounds of a large-scale rural representative panel data of the Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey (BIHS) of 5,024 households generated by IFPRI-Bangladesh

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