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article
- On the origins of food loss. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. 43:750-780. 2021
- Quantity and quality food losses across the value Chain: A Comparative analysis. Food Policy. 98:101958. 2021
- Reducing food loss and waste: Five challenges for policy and research. Food Policy. 98:101974. 2021
- A poverty-sensitive scorecard to prioritize lending and grant allocation: Evidence from Central America:. Food Policy. 77:81-90. 2018
- Frontier analysis and agricultural typologies. 2018
- NONPARAMETRIC ESTIMATION OF CONDITIONAL VALUE-AT-RISK AND EXPECTED SHORTFALL BASED ON EXTREME VALUE THEORY. ECONOMETRIC THEORY. 34:23-67. 2018
- Asymmetric Information and Middleman Margins: An Experiment with Indian Potato Farmers. The Review of Economics and Statistics. 100:1-13. 2017
- Distributional Effects of Growth and Public Expenditures in Africa: Estimates for Tanzania and Rwanda. World Development. 95:177-195. 2017
- A text message away: ICTs as a tool to improve food security. Agricultural Economics. 47:49-59. 2016
- Iron Deficiency and Schooling Attainment in Peru. AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS. 8:222-255. 2016
- Alternative Mechanisms to Reduce Food Price Volatility and Price Spikes: Policy Responses at the Global Level 2016
- Consistency Between Theory and Practice in Policy Recommendations by International Organizations for Extreme Price and Extreme Volatility Situations 2016
- Impact of third-party enforcement of contracts in agricultural markets—A field experiment in Vietnam 2016
- Innovation for inclusive value-chain development: Successes and challenges: Synopsis 2016
- Potential collusion and trust: Evidence from a field experiment in Vietnam. AFRICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS-AFJARE. 11:22-32. 2016
- Regional developments 2016
- Relative Prices of Food and the Volatility of Agricultural Commodities: Evidence for a Panel of Developing Economies 2016
- Toward a sustainable food system: Reducing food loss and waste 2016
- Vers un système alimentaire durable: Réduction des pertes et des gaspillages alimentaires 2016
- Volatile and Extreme Food Prices, Food Security, and Policy: An Overview 2016
- High-Order Conditional Quantile Estimation Based on Nonparametric Models of Regression. Econometric Reviews. 34:906-957. 2015
- To remit, or not to remit: that is the question. A remittance field experiment. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 112:221-236. 2015
- Information, Certification and Demand for Food Safety: Evidence from an In-store Experiment in Mumbai. Journal of Agricultural Economics. 66:470-491. 2015
- Infrastructure challenges and potential for Africa South of the Sahara 2015
- Iron Deficiency and Schooling Attainment in Peru 2015
- Regional developments 2015
- Social Interaction Effects and Connection to Electricity: Experimental Evidence from Rural Ethiopia. Economic Development and Cultural Change. 63:459-484. 2015
- The Power of Information: The ICT Revolution in Agricultural Development. ANNUAL REVIEW OF RESOURCE ECONOMICS, VOL 11. 6:533-550. 2014
- Parametric versus nonparametric methods in risk scoring: an application to microcredit. Empirical Economics. 46:1057-1079. 2014
- Distributional Effects of Growth and Public Expenditures in Africa: Estimates for Tanzania and Rwanda 2014
- Impact of Third-party Contract Enforcement in Agricultural Markets-A Field Experiment in Vietnam. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 96:1220-1238. 2014
- Lost in the Mail: A Field Experiment on Crime. Economic Inquiry. 52:285-303. 2014
- Poverty-Sensitive Scorecards to Prioritize Lending and Grant Allocation with an Application in Central America 2014
- To remit, or not to remit: that is the question. A remittance field experiment 2014
- Market concentration and pricing behavior in the fertilizer industry: a global approach. Agricultural Economics. 44:723-734. 2013
- Contract farming and smallholder incentives to produce high quality: experimental evidence from the Vietnamese dairy sector. Agricultural Economics. 44:297-308. 2013
- Futures Commodities Prices and Media Coverage 2013
- Gender Differences in Bargaining Outcomes: A Field Experiment on Discrimination. Journal of Public Economics. 99:35-48. 2013
- Food and Nutrition Security Indicators: A Review 2013
- Detecting Gender and Racial Discrimination in Hiring Through Monitoring Intermediation Services: The Case of Selected Occupations in Metropolitan Lima, Peru. World Development. 40:315-328. 2012
- 2012 Global hunger index by severity 2012
- 2012 Indice de la faim dans le monde, Relever le defi de la faim: Assurer une sécurité alimentaire durable dan un monde sous contraintes en eau, en énergie et en terres 2012
- 2012 Welthunger-Index, Herausforderung Hunger: Ernährung sichern, wenn Land, Wasser und Energie knapp werden 2012
- 2012 Índice global del hambre, El desafío del hambre: garantizar la seguridad alimentaria sostenible en situaciones de penuria de tierras, agua y energía 2012
- Contract farming and smallholder incentives to produce high quality: experimental evidence from the Vietnamese dairy sector 2012
- Gender Differences in Bargaining Outcomes: A Field Experiment on Discrimination. National Bureau of Economic Research. 2012
- Investments to reduce hunger and undernutrition 2012
- Nonparametric estimation of conditional value-at-risk and expected shortfall based on extreme value theory 2012
- Des actions urgentes s'imposent pour éviter les crises alimentaires récurrentes 2011
- Randomizing the 'Last Mile', A methodological note on using a voucher-based approach to assess the impact of infrastructure projects 2011
- Urgent actions needed to prevent recurring food crises [In Chinese] 2011
- Muslim Family Law, Prenuptial Agreements, and the Emergence of Dowry in Bangladesh. Quarterly Journal of Economics. 125:1349-1397. 2010
- Risk Management Research Report - Spring 2010 2010
- On The Preferences of Principals and Agents. Economic Inquiry. 48:266-273. 2010
- Examining the dynamic relationship between spot and future prices of agricultural commodities 2010
- La crisis del precio de los alimentos en América Latina, Riesgos y oportunidades 2010
- Understanding the impact of high food prices in Latin America. Economía. vol. 10. 2010
- Access to Telephone Services and Household Income in Poor Rural Areas Using a Quasi‐natural Experiment for Peru. Economica. 76:623-648. 2009
- Iodine Deficiency and Schooling Attainment in Tanzania. AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS. 1:140-169. 2009
- Cuando la especulación sí importa 2009
- Exploring the price spike 2009
- Grappling with grain prices 2009
- Implementing physical and virtual food reserves to protect the poor and prevent market failure 2009
- Innovations in insuring the poor 2009
- Innovations in insuring the poor: Innovations in insuring the poor, Overview 2009
- Tipología de micro-regiones de las áreas rurales de Ecuador, Aplicación de fronteras estocásticas de utilidades agrícolas 2009
- When speculation matters 2009
- Rationality and the Nature of the Market 2008
- Beautiful or White? Discrimination in Group Formation 2008
- Ethnic and Social Barriers to Cooperation: Experiments Studying the Extent and Nature of Discrimination in Urban Peru 2008
- The Cognitive Link Between Geography and Development: Iodine Deficiency and Schooling Attainment in Tanzania. National Bureau of Economic Research. 2008
- Determinants of time allocation to rural nonfarm activities in Central America, The role of infrastructure and education 2008
- El impacto del tratado de libre comercio de Centroamérica en la industria Centroamericana de maquila textil 2008
- Hausse des prix alimentaires et actions stratégiques proposées: Que faire, par qui et comment 2008
- Comments to 'Stratification and public utility services in Colombia: Subsidies to households or distortion of housing prices 2007
- Ethnicity and earnings in a mixed race labor market 2007
- The impact of the Central America Free Trade Agreement on the Central American textile maquila industry 2007
- The impact of the Central America free trade agreement on agriculture and the rural sector in five Central American countries, Executive summary 2007
- Access to dynamic markets for small commercial farmers, the case of potato production in the Peruvian Andes 2006
- Does Privatization Deliver? Access to Telephone Services and Household Income in Poor Rural Areas Using a Quasi-Natural Experiment in Peru 2005
- Measuring the Impact of Asset Complementarities: The case of rural Peru. Cuadernos de Economía. 42:137-164. 2005
- Measuring the impact of asset complementarities, the case of rural Peru 2005
- Ethnicity and Earnings in Urban Peru 2004
- Gender and Racial Discrimination in Hiring: A Pseudo Audit Study for Three Selected Occupations in Metropolitan Lima 2004
- Peruvian Privatization: Impacts on Firm Performance 2003
- The impact of telecommunications privatization in Peru on the welfare of urban consumers 2003
- Union Density Changes and Union Effects on Firm Performance in Peru 2002
- Labor Mobility from Academe to Commerce. Journal of Labor Economics. 20:629-660. 2002
- Does Geography Explain Differences in Economic Growth in Peru 2000
- Labor Market Reforms and Their Impact on Formal Labor Demand and Job Market Turnover: The Case of Peru 2000
- The Private, public and organizational assets of the poor in Perú 2000
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book
- Agriculture and achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Ed. 32729-GLB. 2006
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chapter
- Evaluating inclusive value-chain development 2016
- Information and communication technologies: Farmers, markets, and the power of connectivity 2014
- Regional developments 2014
- Targeting investments to link farmers to markets, A framework for capturing the heterogeneity of smallholder farmers 2014
- Hunger and malnutrition 2013
- Food Prices: Riding the Rollercoaster 2012
- Implementing physical and virtual food reserves to protect the poor and prevent market failure 2012
- Examining the dynamic relation between spot and future prices of agricultural commodities 2010
- Examining the dynamic relationship between spot and futures prices of agricultural commodities 2010
- Trade policy, Implications for agronomy 2010 2010
- Ethnic and social barriers to cooperation, Experiments studying the extent and nature of discrimination in urban Peru 2009
- Trade policy, Implications for agronomy 2009
- Access to telephone services and household income in poor rural areas using a Quasi-Natural Experiment in Peru 2008
- Learning from an incomplete electricity privatization process in rural Peru 2008
- Conclusions and implications for policy and research 2006
- Impacts of ICT on low-income rural households 2006
- Institutional and public policy aspects of ICT infrastructure provision 2006
- Introduction and overview 2006
- The impact of public telephones in rural areas: the case of Peru 2006
- Adverse geography and differences in welfare in Peru 2005
- Union density changes and union effects on firm performance in Peru 2005
- An invisible wall? the economics of social exclusion in Peru 2004
- Labor market reforms and their impacts over formal labor demand and job market turnover: the case of Peru 2004
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conference paper
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dataset
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document
- A poverty-sensitive scorecard to prioritize lending and grant allocation: Evidence from Central America 2016
- 2012 Global hunger index, The challenege of hunger: Ensuring sustainable food security under land, water, and energy stresses 2012
- 2012 Indice globale della fame, La sfida della fame: Garantire una sicurezza alimentare sostenibile in un contesto di scarsità di terra, acqua, e engeria 2012
- 2011 Global Hunger Index, The Challenge of Hunger: Taming price spikes and excessive food price volatility 2011
- Fertilizer market situation, Market structure, consumption and trade patterns, and pricing behavior 2011
- Indice Globale della Fame 2011, La Sfida della fame: Controllare le impennate e l'eccessiva volatilità dei prezzi alimentari 2011
- Indice de la faim dans le monde 2011, Relever le defi do la faim: Maîtriser les chocs et la volatilité excessive des prix alimentaires 2011
- Más allá de los números, Cómo respondieron los hogares urbanos en Centroamérica a las crisis globales recientes 2011
- Índice Global del Hambre 2011, el Desafío del Hambre: Domar los picos y la Volatilidad Excesiva de los Precios de los Alimentos 2011
- How safe is my food?, Assessing the effect of information and credible certification on consumer demand for food safety in developing countries 2010
- High food prices: The what, who, and how of proposed policy actions 2008
- Los altos precios de los alimentos: El ‘qué', ‘quién' y ‘cómo' de las acciones de política propuestas 2008
- Physical and virtual global food reserves to protect the poor and prevent market failure 2008
- Property rights and crop choice in rural Peru, 1994-2004 2006
- Market institutions, enhancing the value of rural-urban links 2005
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- A scoping review on incentives for adoption of sustainable agricultural practices and their outcomes. NATURE SUSTAINABILITY. 809-820. 2020
- Agricultural innovation and inclusive value-chain development: a review. JOURNAL OF AGRIBUSINESS IN DEVELOPING AND EMERGING ECONOMIES. 99-123. 2018
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working paper
- Are there nutrient-based poverty traps?, Evidence on iron deficiency and schooling attainment in Peru 2014
- Social interaction effects and connection to electricity, Experimental evidence from rural Ethiopia 2014
- Conceptual framework on price volatility and its impact on food and nutrition security in the short term 2013