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Ahmed Akhter

Akhter Ahmed

Akhter Ahmed is a Senior Research Fellow in the IFPRI’s Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit and Country Representative for IFPRI Bangladesh. He has worked on strategies for agricultural and rural development, social protection, and women’s empowerment to reduce poverty, food insecurity, and undernutrition in developing countries including Bangladesh, China, Egypt, India, Malawi, the Philippines, and Turkey.

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Punjab Pol Promises Farm Loan Waiver

March 18, 2017


India’s Business Standard reported on a chief ministerial candidate in Punjab’s promise of farm debt waivers for drought-stricken Punjabi farmers, quoting IFPRI South Asia Director PK Joshi for analysis. “Given that in the last two years there has been a drought in North India, the new state government should consider such a relief but should keep it limited to small and marginal farmers,” Joshi said.

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