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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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Zambia has an election this week. Here’s what you need to know (Washington Post)

August 11, 2021


Washington Post published an op-ed by senior research fellow Danielle Resnick on the upcoming elections in Zambia. Like other African nations, Zambia’s elections, in 1991, marked a wave of democratic transitions. However, Zambia has since experienced a significant reversal of its democratic gains, as detailed in a recent Amnesty International report. In Zambia, democratic erosion. Today, Zambian voters aren’t happy about the country’s economic outlook or its external debt problem. Republished in Revista de Prensa (Spain). 

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