Agricultural and Applied Economics—Without Apology
I wanted to blog this when it first came out at the beginning of July, but I did not get a chance to listen to this Center for Global Development (CGD)Â podcast until this past weekend, when recurrent eye problems forced me to spend time (looking) away from my computer. The current famine in the Horn of Africa makes this still relevant.
In a new article published in the August issue of the World Bank Research Observer, Justin Lin, who is currently serving as chief economist of the World Bank, lays out a new agenda for development research, which he calls the “New Structural Economics.” Here is the paper’s (long) abstract:
Warning: Blatant self-promotion ahead.
An excerpt from an article in Foreign Affairs by Chris Barrett and I on the current food crisis: