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With research staff from more than 70 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

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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Since 1975, IFPRI’s research has been informing policies and development programs to improve food security, nutrition, and livelihoods around the world.

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IFPRI currently has more than 480 employees working in over 70 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

How Did Sanctions Impact Myanmar? (The Diplomat)

January 07, 2018


The Diplomat published an op-ed authored by IFPRI’s Manmeet Ajmani, P K Joshi, Avinash Kishore and Devesh Roy examining how a decade of sanctions imposed by the US and OECD countries’ impacted Myanmar in light of recent threats to renew restrictions. The authors find not only were the sanctions highly asymmetric, they had least impact on Myanmar’s trade as the country diversified its pool of trading partners and products.       

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