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David Spielman

David Spielman is the director of IFPRI’s Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit and has been with the institute since 2004. His research agenda covers a range of topics including agriculture and rural development policy; agricultural science, technology, and innovation; plant genetic resources and seed systems; agricultural extension and advisory services; and community-driven rural development.

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China’s trade war deal ‘may be doomed from start’ as skepticism mounts over capacity to buy US products (South China Morning Post)

January 21, 2020


South China Morning Post reported on the US-China Phase One plan of the trade negotiations. Experts question if the agreement will work. Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber stated, “With a managed trade agreement like this, targets are presumably established, but I suspect that it will mean state trading companies like COFCO will be doing a lot of the buying.” Republished in IntellAsia.

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