The University of Montesquieu Bordeaux IV would like to announce the opportunity to attend a Summer University on Dynamc Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models. The University will fully finance the participation of five French-speaking African PhD Students (flight and accommodation included). This Summer University will take place in Bordeaux from June 17th to June 21st. Please note that the University will be conducted in French. You can…
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posted by sgustafson on 11 years 8 months ago (0 comments)
The AGRODEP team would like to announce the following funding and conference opportunities. We encourage all AGRODEP members to look into these opportunities and apply if eligible:
1. Call for Submissions, 4th International Conference of African Association of Agricultural Economists. The AAAE is calling for submissions for contributed papers, organized symposia, and pre- and post-conference and learning workshops as part of its 4th Annual…
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The MyCOE / SERVIR Initiative in West Africa is a 10-month fellowship program for undergraduate and graduate students in eligible countries in West Africa who are currently enrolled in any field at an institution of higher education in an eligible country (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Chad, Cote d'Ivorie, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo) with ideas and plans for…
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The AGRODEP Web team recently completed the first annual user survey for agrodep.org. The survey was open to AGRODEP members and was designed to gain a better understanding of what its members need from the portal. The results of the survey will be used to identify areas of potential improvement in AGRODEP's online activities and outreach in the coming year. The AGRODEP web team thanks those of you who participated in the survey, and…
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Endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation, this is a $10,000 award to be presented annually to a young extension worker, research scientist, development professional, or other individual who best emulates the dedication, perseverance, and innovation demonstrated by Dr. Norman Borlaug while working in the field with farmers in Mexico in the 1940s and 50s. The award will be presented every October in Des Moines, Iowa, by the World…
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The Global Development Network is now accepting proposals and completed papers for its 2012 GDN Global Development Awards and Medals Competition (AMC). The competition categories are:
Medals for Research on Development: for exceptional completed research papers
Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development (ORD): for original, policy-relevant research proposals
Proposals and completed papers are being invited for the following…
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The AGRODEP training course on Multi-Country, Multi-Sector General Equilibrium Analysis: MIRAGRODEP was held on 17-19 December. The course was conducted by Dr. Antoine Bouet of IFPRI. The course focused specifically on MIRAGRODEP, a Multi-Sector, Multi-Country Computable General Equilibrium model initially devoted to trade policy analysis and more recently applied to long-term growth and environmental issues. Six AGRODEP members participated in…
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HarvestChoice at the International Food Policy Research Institute is urgently looking for a local M&E Coordinator to be based in Ghana.
Essential Duties
The successful candidate will act as focal point for Northern Ghana and Southern Mali of the Strategic Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) component of sub-Saharan Africa Sustainable Intensification (SI) component of the USAID’s Feed the Future (FTF) research strategy, which…
posted by sgustafson on 11 years 10 months ago (2 comments)
Dr. Patrick Irungu, an AGRODEP member since 2011, recently received a STATA question from one of his MSc students at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. The student is using STATA to run a profit function under the seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) model, but has run into a problem where STATA is dropping some of the constraints. The student describes the problem as follows:
"I am working on "Demand Analysis for Antibiotics…
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Congratulations to new AGRODEP member Dr. Evans S. Osabuohien and his co-authors, who were recently awarded the 2012 FLACSO-WTO Chairs Award for Young Professors and Researchers. Their paper, “More Trade, More Protection: Insights and Implications of the Unending Contradiction”, examines the divergence between countries' national interests and international trade protocols (full abstract below). It was…