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| Alain de Janvry |
Alain de Janvry is a Professor of Agriculture and Resource Economics at University of California at Berkeley . His area of interest is international economic development, with expertise principally in Latin America , Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle-East, and the Indian subcontinent. His fields of work include poverty analysis, rural development, quantitative analysis of development policies, impact analysis of social programs, technological innovations in agriculture, and the management of common property resources. He has worked with many international development agencies, including FAO, IFAD, the World Bank, UNDP, ILO, the CGIAR, and the Inter-American Development Bank as well as foundations such as Ford, Rockefeller and Kellogg. His main objective in teaching, research, and work with development agencies is the promotion of human welfare, including understanding the determinants of poverty and analyzing successful approaches to improve well-being and promote sustainability in resource use. |
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| Andrew Foster |
Andrew Foster is the Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics and Professor of Community Health at Brown University. He is an empirical micro-economist with interests in the areas of population, environment, development, and health. His recent work has examined economic growth in rural India, exploring such issues as growth in the non-farm economy, the effects of local democratization, groundwater usage, forest cover, household structure, inequality, and schooling. He has authored a number of scholarly articles in leading international journals, has contributed chapters in numerous books and presented his research at seminars at various leading universities and research institutes across the world. He is currently the Associate Editor for the Journal of Economic Growth and Journal of Human Resources and has been a referee for the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy and many others, over the last three years.
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| Hans P. Binswanger-Mkhize |
Hans Binswanger-Mkhize is Professor Extraordinaire at the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation, Tshwane University of Technology, Tshwane, South Africa and a Senior Fellow of Amsterdam Institute for Development. Earlier he served the World Bank for several years in various capacities including as Senior Adviser (Africa region) and Director for Environmental, Rural, and Social Development, Africa Region. He was also associated with Yale University and ICRISAT, Hyderabad.His professional interests include agricultural economics, political economy, economics of technical change; local and community driven development; economic behavior under risk and uncertainty; environment and natural resource issues and policies, HIV/AIDS and health. He has published several books and numerous papers in these areas.He is a fellow of the American Association of Advancement of Science (AAAS) and American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA). In 2006 he was the recipient of the Elmhirst Medal of the International Association of Agricultural Economist.
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| Klaus Deininger |
Klaus Deininger, is a Lead Economist in the rural development group of the Development Economics Group at the World Bank. His areas of research focus on income and asset inequality and its relationship to poverty reduction and growth; access to land, land markets and land reform and their impact on household welfare and agricultural productivity; land tenure and its impact on investment, including environmental sustainability: and capacity building (including the use of quantitative and qualitative methods) for policy analysis and evaluation, mainly in the Africa, Central America, and East Asia Regions. He has authored a number of scholarly articles in leading international journals, has contributed chapters in numerous books and presented his research at seminars at various leading universities and research institutes across the world. |
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