Alan de Brauw

@adebrauw.bsky.social

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Economist- I study value chains, food systems and nutrition, migration, and to some extent agricultural finance. Work at IFPRI, posts do not reflect views of my employer.

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The food system keeps providing us with entertainment www.washingtonpost.com/food/2024/07...

You didn’t ask for it, but Cup Noodles now has s’more-flavored ramenwww.washingtonpost.com The new “campfire s’mores” dish mixes instant noodles with chocolate, graham crackers and marshmallow flavors. Reactions online ranged from intrigue to horror.

Can someone please track down Carlo Ancelotti in Montana and offer him GGGs job?!?

MSMEs play an important role in sustainable healthy diets. See some of our #SHiFT_Initiative research in #VietNam finding MSMEs are key outlets for healthy foods, often sourcing produce directly from farms. 🇻🇳 🔗 bit.ly/4ch8OKG #InternationalMSMEDay

Role of MSMEs in Viet Nam’s food environmentsbit.ly In 2023, researchers from the CGIAR Research Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Transformation (SHiFT) conducted a survey to learn about the role of micro, small, and medium ...

Might have been the only NSO subscriber in the audience for Killer Mike last night but it was awesome to be there!

Now available ahead of print from Economic Development and Cultural Change- Effects of Pakistan's BISP transfer on women's agency with @kateambler.bsky.social journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72

Check out our new interactive describing our network based value chain surveys in Bangladesh and Uganda- with @kateambler.bsky.social @jeffbloem.bsky.social and Julia Wagner

Agrifood value chains are complex transaction-linked networks: What does this mean for sampling methodology?www.ifpri.org Why simplified linear approaches may fall short.

Just completed my 10th peer review of 2024. Hoping the requests slow down (I'm turning down a lot as well)...

Coverage in Bangladesh's Financial Express of our workshop last week in Dhaka @kateambler.bsky.social today.thefinancialexpress.com.bd/first-page/c...

Cash remains king in local food chain transactionstoday.thefinancialexpress.com.bd All intermediaries within the country's agri-food value chain are less interested in using digital finance for transactions than cash, according to a study by the International Food Policy Research In...

My near 17 year old right now to my wife: "I dunno. I've never used a Word doc before. Google bought all the kids..."

I’m slow on the social media rn. Spotted in Canberra this week- I read that as “sugar paste with a hint of peanut”

Although my older son is taking AP Macroeconomics right now and constantly tells me he just needs to understand the concepts, it will be really hard not to share this with him www.econlib.org/poorly-defin...

Poorly Defined Concepts in Macroeconomics - Econlibwww.econlib.org In my previous post, I discussed some poorly defined concepts in macro, such as “aggregate demand” and “monetary policy”. A recent David Beckworth interview of Jonathon Hazell touched on some ...

I found it!

My brother writes about his top 5 Cure songs here: www.welcometohellworld.com/the-cure/

I will always love youwww.welcometohellworld.com The top 5 The Cure songs ever

New blog about our project in Bangladesh to test an innovative cattle financing model (with Mehrab Bakhtiar, Riad Uddin, and @kateambler.bsky.social): www.ifpri.org/blog/bridgin...

Bridging the smallholder finance gap: Collaborative research with WeGro in Bangladeshwww.ifpri.org Helping farmers purchase and sell livestock.

Just finished three days of running workshops in Hanoi for the CGIAR initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets and sharing initial findings from our consumer and food environment surveys. Thanks to the Malica platform for collaboration, and partners at NiN, VAAS, and IPSARD!

After seeing one from the back of a Grab today in Hanoi, I looked it up- Vinfast is selling new electric mopeds here for less than $1000 (22 million dong).

Since people are sharing what they found- I found all the food waste- decided maybe I shouldn't open that door though

Poor headline, but the premise is good. The end of cheap credit- at least in the medium term- will likely have important implications for agriculture and other development in LMICs www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | The era of cheap is overwww.washingtonpost.com Easy money, cut-price energy and discount labor are all going away.

Just published at World Development w Yawen Ding, Xiaobing Wang, and Huanguang Qiu- we show improvements in women's decision making power through China's relocation program for poverty alleviation. Link good for 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/c/1hy6k,6yxD...

Excited to present results from work with Kalle Hirvonen and Gashaw Abate at the Micronutrient Forum today! We find small positive effects on fruit and veg consumption 4 months after randomized groups are shown a local drama with nutrition messages in Addis Ababa #econsky doi.org/10.1002/jaa2...

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Standing ovation to Claudia Goldin!!

Copying from that dying site- congrats Blair XC on a great team effort today! (my son= bottom right)

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