AGRODEP

The African Growth and Development Policy Modeling Consortium is an initiative aimed at positioning African experts to take a leadership role in the study of strategic development questions and the broader agricultural growth and policy debate facing African countries.

Micro-Macro Distributional Analysis Toolbox

This toolbox contains the codes used to run microsimulations linked to CGE models. As a specific example, it uses the IFPRI standard CGE model and the Tanzania Household Budget Survey 2000/2001 to simulate a 50% fall in export prices in Tanzania. Two microsimulation techniques are implemented: a non-parametric microsimulation model and a representative household model.

Demographic and Health Survey 2005 - Republic of the Congo

The Demographic and Health Survey of the Republic of the Congo (Enquête Démographique et de Santé du Congo (EDSC-I)) is a nationally-representative household sample survey. The overall objective of this first survey is to provide the necessary demographic and health data essential for the implementation of policies and programs in the areas of population, health and family planning.

AGRODEP Country profile: Republic of the Congo

Each country page includes the national flag, links to briefs by various organizations on important topics about the country and links to websites of national organizations and research institutions in the country. In addition, each country page provides links to available economic models, datasets, resources, and profiles of AGRODEP members from that country.

Photo gallery of the IE training course

The first 2013 AGRODEP training course, Impact Evaluation and Analysis of Development Interventions, is being held at IFPRI Dakar office on May 13-18, 2013. This course intends to provide African-based researchers with knowledge of the latest developments regarding both technical and topical aspects of impact evaluation. You can find photos taken in the course in the photo gallery.

Technical Note No. 9

The Technical Note No. 9, Guide to Microsimulations Linked to CGE Models: How to Introduce Analysis of Poverty and Income Distribution in CGE-based Studies, was published. Micro-macro syntheses have become a powerful tool to capture the micro effects of macro policies and external shocks on income distribution and poverty.

1 Jul, 2013 - 3 Jul, 2013

2013 Training Course - Evaluation of Public Policies

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Overview

The aim of the course is to introduce participants to recent methodological developments in the evaluation of public policies. These developments have shown that it is possible to circumvent most conceptual problems related to the evaluation of public policies under relatively innocuous assumptions. The importance of these developments has been underlined by the award of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2000 to James Heckman and Daniel McFadden, the two main contributors to the field.

Featured network member

Nicodème Nimenya, the winner of the Special Award for 2012 Publications, will receive this award for his publication entitled “Tariff Equivalents of Nontariff Measures: The Case of European Horticultural and Fish Imports from African Countries”, published in Agricultural Economics (43(6):635-653). He is a citizen of Burundi. He has been an AGRODEP member since April 2011. At present, Nimenya is a Professor/Lecturer at the University of Burundi where he teaches and conducts research on quantitative methods applied to agricultural economics. Before joining University of Burundi, Nimenya worked for private schools of Bujumbura (Burundi). He holds a B.A. degree in Agronomy from University of Burundi, an M.A. in Agricultural Economics from Universite Catholique de Louvain (Belgium), as well as a Ph.D. from the same university. His research interests include international agricultural trade, non-tariff measures, and regional integration.