Past Events
 2016 Training Course - Multi-Country, Multi-Sector General Equilibrium Analysis: MIRAGRODEP-AEZ 13 Dec, 2016 - 15 Dec, 2016 Dakar, Senegal |
The course aims at presenting and training members on the MIRAGRODEP-AEZ model built at IFPRI under the Program of Accompanying Research for Agricultural Innovation (PARI), in partnership with the Center for Development Research (ZEF)-University of Bonn. Applications for this series will be accepted until October 14, 2016. Course outline and description are subject to change. |
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 2016 Training Course - Losses along Food Value Chains 17 Oct, 2016 - 19 Oct, 2016 Accra, Ghana |
AGRODEP, with support from the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM), is pleased to announce a training course on Losses Along Food Value Chains as part of the AGRODEP Value Chain Analysis Virtual Hub. Applications for this series will be accepted until August 19, 2016. Course outline and description are subject to change. |
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 2016 Training Course - Tools for Value Chain Analysis 29 Mar, 2016 - 1 Apr, 2016 IFPRI - Dakar |
Overview
AGRODEP, with support from the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM), is pleased to announce a new two-part training course on Tools for Value Chain Analysis as part of the AGRODEP Value Chain Analysis Virtual Hub.
The first part of the course, the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), will be taught by Hazel Malapit and the second part of the course, Introduction to the Participatory Market Chain Approach (PMCA), will be taught by Sarah Mayanja. More information about these tools and the training course are provided below. Participants are expected to attend both parts of the course.
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 2016 AGRODEP Impact Evaluation Network Workshop 7 Mar, 2016 - 8 Mar, 2016 IFPRI Headquarters, Washington D.C. |
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 2016 Training Courses 1 Jan, 2016 - 31 Dec, 2016 |
The AGRODEP team is pleased to announce its list of training courses for 2016. |
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Upcoming 2015 Training Courses 7 Dec, 2015 - 31 Dec, 2015 |
The AGRODEP team is pleased to announce its list of training courses for 2015. The courses were selected based on results from the 2015 training course survey; in this survey, members were given a list of proposed courses and asked to select their top three based on which would be most useful for their research and professional development. Upcoming Courses: |
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 2015 Training Course - Applied Microeconometrics 7 Dec, 2015 - 10 Dec, 2015 IFPRI - Dakar |
Overview This course will provide participants an extensive range of up-to-date statistical and econometric techniques to analyze microeconomic data. In particular, a wide variety of microeconometric methods available in Stata will be covered, including linear regression, instrumental-variables estimation, nonlinear models for binary, multinomial, and censored models, estimation of average treatment effects, simulation and bootstrapping, and duration analysis. |
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 2015 Training Course - Evaluation of Public Policies 28 Oct, 2015 - 30 Oct, 2015 IFPRI - Dakar |
OverviewThe 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. |
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 2015 Training Course - Augmented Gravity Models: Measurement and Trade Impact of Policies 5 Oct, 2015 - 9 Oct, 2015 IFPRI - Dakar |
OverviewOver time, the gravity model has been defined as the workhorse of international trade and its ability to correctly approximate bilateral trade flows makes it one of the most successful “empirical fact” in economics. With data increasingly available for developing, as well as developed countries, the gravity model has come to be the starting point for a wide variety of research questions with a policy component. |
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 2015 Training Course - Applied Panel Data Econometrics 7 Sep, 2015 - 11 Sep, 2015 IFPRI - Dakar |
OverviewThe wide availability of panel data presents unique opportunities for researchers. It is essential to understand the intuition and implications of the estimators and tests that are currently available to successfully take advantage of panel data. This course will focus on core panel data techniques, building a strong foundation before moving into more cutting edge methods that have been recently developed. The class will also discuss in detail implementation of panel data estimators and tests using the popular open source software R. The class will take place over five days to ensure maximum coverage of the core topics. |
