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While Bangladesh’s agricultural sector provides an important economic growth engine, its growth rate has slowed from six percent to one percent in recent years. An important survey from IFPRI sheds some light on the culprit, according to Bangladesh’s English-language Financial Express newspaper. The study found that of loans disbured by the state-owned bank, only 14 […]

Mishtalk, an economics blog, reported on analysis from Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber about the likely impacts of a trade war on U.S. Agriculture. According to Glauber, U.S.Agricultural exports averaged $142 billion in recent years, with a positive trade balance. This balance could be hurt by retaliatory tariffs or protectionist economic policies. 

Even modest investments from donor countries can help developing countries make strong gains in food security, IFPRI's Director General writes.

Former IFPRI director Ashok Gulati was named to the board of the Reserve Bank of India, according to the Times of India. Gulati was previously chairman of India’s Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices, and was director of IFPRI from 2001 to 2011. 

The rapid rise of home prices in many Chinese provinces can most readily be explained by the drive to attract a prospective sexual partner, finds a new analysis from the International Food Policy Research Institute. “Home Ownership as Status Competition: Some Theory and Guidance,” published by Shang-In Wei, Xiaobo Zhang, and Yin Liu in the […]

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IFPRI research is at the center of a major debate over fertilizer price increases in Ireland, where the Irish Farmers’ Association argues that farmers are being ripped off. Ireland’s Independent newspaper reported that an IFPRI study by Senior Research Fellows Antoine Bouet and David Laborde Debucquet which makes the case that a failure of competition […]

Speakers: Moderator: As regional trade negotiation processes falter, the WTO is returning to center stage as the main body regulating international trade. The countries of the Mercosur trading bloc, including Argentina and Brazil, are among the world’s leading net food exporters and therefore have a key role to play in food security and sustainability.  At […]

Bangladesh’s English-language Financial Express newspaper reported on a study by Senior Research Fellow Derek Headey that found a link between childhood exposure to animal feces and stunting. Stunting has serious implications, Headey said, because “it’s strongly associated with poor health and cognition as well as reduced educational attainment and subsequent lifetime earnings.”

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Director for South Asia Pramod K. Joshi penned an opinion piece in India’s Financial Chronicle that analyzed the impact of India’s 2017 budget on the agriculture sector. “Overall,” he wrote, “the budget is pro-farmer and agriculture. It is an attempt to strengthen agriculture and step forward to double farmers’ incomes by 2020.”

The Nikkei Asian Review quoted a research blog post by Senior Program Manager Adam Kennedy that highlighted the need to boost agricultural productivity in Myanmar in order to raise rural incomes and reduce poverty and malnutrition. The article discussed the other barriers to sustained economic growth in Myanmar including a changing economic focus, an uncertain […]

Exposure to animal feces has been linked to slower physical growth in young children according to a new report from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). The study, published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, looked at the growth, health and hygiene conditions of 6000 children aged 6-24 months in Bangladesh, […]

Adjusting Nepal’s complex agricultural economy to the federalist system laid out by the new constitution will require some adjustment, but a new paper from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) proposes several policy measures to ease the transition. “Nepal’s 2072 Federal Constitution: Implications for the Governance of the Agricultural Sector” looks at how wisdom […]

Bloomberg Business News Analysis reports that, according to IFPRI Senior Research Fellow Joe Glauber, the imposition of import tariffs could lead to retaliation against U.S. exports. Agriculture is especially vulnerable to this threat, as 28 percent of U.S. agricultural exports – amounting to $37.7 billion – go to Mexico and China.  

Bloomberg View published a piece analyzing a new paper by IFPRI Deputy Division Director Xinshen Diao and Senior Research Fellow Margaret McMillan that examines the explanations for slow growth in the economies of Latin America and Africa South of the Sahara. Their research showed that Latin American economies have suffered from a lack of positive structural […]

Why some developing countries lag in the fight against hunger and malnutrition: they lack the policy expertise to devise effective national policies.

IFPRI’s Latin America and Caribbean Program builds on more than three decades of research in the region. The program supports the region in food systems transformation by analyzing data and generating insights for informing policies, and emphasizes collaboration with other institutions to build a network of collaborators and colleagues in the region.

President Trump's threats of trade wars with Mexico and China could rebound painfully on U.S. agriculture.