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posted by soonho on 11 years 1 month ago (0 comments)
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…
posted by sgustafson on 11 years 2 months ago (0 comments)
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…
posted by soonho on 11 years 2 months ago (0 comments)
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…
posted by sgustafson on 11 years 2 months ago (0 comments)
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…
posted by sgustafson on 11 years 3 months ago (0 comments)
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…
posted by sgustafson on 11 years 3 months ago (0 comments)
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 3 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…
posted by sgustafson on 11 years 3 months ago (0 comments)
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…
posted by sgustafson on 11 years 4 months ago (0 comments)
AGRODEP has launched a Member Satisfaction Survey of the AGRODEP Web Portal. The AGRODEP Web Portal is designed to provide users with relevant web-based resources and up-to-date information and news. The objective of the Member Satisfaction Survey is to measure members' overall satisfaction with the Portal, to identify areas of potential improvement, and to enable the AGRODEP web team to set appropriate priorities to enhance the Portal in…
posted by sgustafson on 11 years 4 months ago (0 comments)
The training course on GAMS-Based Computable General Equilibrium Modeling (advanced) was held on 3-5 December, 2012. John Ele-Ojo Ataguba, Lecturer/Researcher at the Health Economics Unit (HEU), University of Cape Town, had this to say about the training:
"The advanced CGE training has now fully equipped me with the tools necessary to begin 'real' CGE modelling. Thanks to our instructor and to AGRODEP for this great and…