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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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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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