AGRODEP Blog
posted by soonho on 11 years 10 months ago (0 comments)
Now, you can see the dedicated model document and user guide, and a debugator of PEP 1-1 model for AGRODEP members in the AGRODEP resource library. These materials are from a collaboration between AGRODEP and PEP. Find out more about the model and related documents in the link below.
http://www.agrodep.org/model/pep-1-1-model
posted by soonho on 11 years 10 months ago (0 comments)
AGRODEP published news about testimonials from the GAMS-based CGE modeling course. Babatunde, Johannes, John, Joshua, Nnaemeka, and Olumuyiwa B., thank you so much for sharing your experience with us!
Here is the news: http://www.agrodep.org/news/complexity-made-simple-see-what-participants-cge-training-are-saying ( The link was updated recently. )
posted by soonho on 11 years 10 months ago (0 comments)
ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE AND DEVELOPMENT (EPD) in the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) is looking for an African research fellow.
Applicants must be Africans residing on the African continent who do not possess South African citizenship or have permanent residence status in South Africa. Although the HSRC will endeavour to facilitate the process, it will be the candidate’s responsibility to secure a work permit in accordance with South…
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The testimonial from the "poverty measurement and analysis" training course was published. Find out how AGRODEP participants said about the course!
http://www.agrodep.org/news/between-theory-and-practice-testimonial-poverty-measurement-and-analysis-training-course
posted by soonho on 11 years 11 months ago (0 comments)
African Growth and Development Policy (AGRODEP) Modeling Consortium is issuing its first annual call for competitive grant proposals to support research on emerging issues in Africa that have previously received little or no attention.
The selected topic of this year’s GAPS IN RESEARCH grant is: Foreign Direct Investment in Land (FDI), Land Markets and Land Institutions, and Development of the…
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Researchers based in African universities and research centers are invited by the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) to submit research proposals that focus on priority research themes identified in the framework of Council’s strategic plan for the period 2012 – 2016. The application deadline is June 15, 2012.
Notification of the result of the selection process will be made by July 31,…
posted by Anonymous on 11 years 11 months ago (0 comments)
Please check out the Norman E. Borlaug Leadership Enhancement in Agriculture Program (Borlaug LEAP) which is offering university fellowships. The fellowships are funded by the U.S. government and managed by the University of California at Davis.
Students from Sub-Saharan Africa conducting research on topics related to USAID's global hunger and food security initiative ("Feed the Future") are being invited to apply. The…
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Congratulations to eight AGRODEP members who recently received sponsorship from the WTO, through its Institute for Training and Technical Cooperation, to attend and present their work at the 15th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis scheduled for June 27-29, 2012 in Geneva, Switzerland:
Mounir Balloumi
Christian Emini
Sadibou Fall
Mercyline Kamande
Olayinka Idowu Kareem
Albert Makochekanwa…
posted by soonho on 11 years 11 months ago (0 comments)
Source:http://www.foodsecurityportal.org/ifpri-and-economic-and-policy-research-centre-announce-call-papers-food-security-uganda
To revisit some of the most pressing issues to have emerged from the 2011 Policy Dialogue on Food Security Information Systems in Uganda, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI and the Economic and Policy Research Centre (EPRC are announcing a joint Call for Papers (CFP). IFPRI and EPRC call for the…
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AGRODEP keeps publishing AGRODEP videos taken at the AGRODEP Workshop (www.agrodep.org/events/2011workshop) held on June 6-7 2011, in Dakar, Senegal, so that members who didn't attend the workshop can watch them. Two videos were added recently. Both videos were presented by Dr. Syud Amer Ahmed, an economist at the World Bank.
In the first video (http://www.agrodep.org/resource/video-using-global-static-cge-assess-…