During a recent webinar, Bob Baulch and Rosemary Botha from IFPRI-Malawi presented the initial results of a SAM multiplier model study with Karl Pauw on the short-term economic impacts of COVID-19 in Malawi. The study considered two scenarios: (a) 2 months of social distancing (in April/May) plus external shocks over the second quarter; and (b) the proposed (but not implemented) 21-day lockdown plus social distancing and external shocks, each followed by either fast or slow lifting of restrictions during the rest of 2020.
Will COVID-19 cause another food crisis? An early review
Will COVID-19 Cause Another Food Crisis? An Early Review. IFPRI Director General Johan Swinnen suggests the answer depends. If you are rich, the answer may well be no. But if you are poor, the answer is more likely to be yes.
Op-ed: Africa’s Litigated Democracy (Project Syndicate)
On February 27, 2020 Project Syndicate published an op-ed by IFPRI's Senior Research Fellows Bob Baulch and Danielle Resnick. The op-ed discusses Malawi’s litigated general elections and compares it to re-run elections held in other African countries. The authors suggest from their research four lessons for young African democracies in a contested election scenario.
Experts gather for a BRACC resilience learning event
More than 65 representatives of implementing partners, government ministries and other actors working on resilience gathered for a one-and-a-half-day event on February 11 and 12 in Lilongwe, to explore the outcomes of the recently completed baseline survey for BRACC and to discuss the way forward for the impact evaluation and related learnings.
Event Recap – Parental Aspirations for Children’s Education: Is there a “Girl Effect”? Experimental Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
During our IFPRI Malawi brown bag research seminar on 13 February 2020, IFPRI Ethiopia’s Senior Research Fellow Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse, presented on the findings of an experiment among poor households in Ethiopia, which aimed to boost parents’ aspirations for a better future for their children through exposure to documentaries featuring local male and female role models.
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