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With research staff from more than 60 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

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Samuel Benin

Samuel Benin is the Acting Director for Africa in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. He conducts research on national strategies and public investment for accelerating food systems transformation in Africa and provides analytical support to the African Union’s CAADP Biennial Review.

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National Bureau of Economic Research Conference

Transforming Rural Africa

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Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd

Cambridge, United States

February 28 to March 1, 2019

  • 8:00 – 4:30 pm (America/New_York)
  • 2:00 – 10:30 pm (Europe/Amsterdam)
  • 6:30 – 3:00 am (Asia/Kolkata)
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IFPRI is participating in the NBER research conference that will explore the determinants of structural transformation and the impact of various policies on it.

The conference brings together researchers who offer a range of perspectives on the structural transformation underway in rural Africa and will especially emphasize micro-scale evidence from households and firms. Research topics will include but are not limited to, electrification, raising agricultural productivity, industrialization, increasing transportation infrastructure and regional connectedness, gender inequality, rural access to finance, and factors that influence the quality of life for African people.

Session 5: Cheap Talk and Coordination in the Lab and in the Field: Collective Commercialization in Senegal (March 1 — 11:00am – 1:00pm)

 

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