Kalle Hirvonen
@kallehi.bsky.social
Development economist @ International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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🚨I4R is looking to hire postdoc fellows in public health and computer science!
The postdoc will join a team of researchers and help mass reproduce studies in leading public health journals or develop AI replicator agents.
Info 👇
The postdoc will join a team of researchers and help mass reproduce studies in leading public health journals or develop AI replicator agents.
Info 👇
September 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
🚨I4R is looking to hire postdoc fellows in public health and computer science!
The postdoc will join a team of researchers and help mass reproduce studies in leading public health journals or develop AI replicator agents.
Info 👇
The postdoc will join a team of researchers and help mass reproduce studies in leading public health journals or develop AI replicator agents.
Info 👇
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We summarized our findings on how farmer-herder conflict influences the labor allocation of agricultural households in this @voxdev.bsky.social piece.
Here is a link to a longer thread on the paper, recently published in the JDE: bsky.app/profile/jeff...
Here is a link to a longer thread on the paper, recently published in the JDE: bsky.app/profile/jeff...
🆕 How climate-induced conflict is shaping rural Nigeria
Today on VoxDev, @jeffbloem.bsky.social @ifpri.org, Amy Damon (Macalester College), David Francis (World Bank), Harrison Mitchell @ucsandiego.bsky.social show how repeated exposure to violence shifts labour patterns: voxdev.org/topic/energy...
Today on VoxDev, @jeffbloem.bsky.social @ifpri.org, Amy Damon (Macalester College), David Francis (World Bank), Harrison Mitchell @ucsandiego.bsky.social show how repeated exposure to violence shifts labour patterns: voxdev.org/topic/energy...
How climate-induced conflict is shaping rural Nigeria
As climate change stretches Nigeria’s dry seasons and disrupts traditional grazing patterns, tensions between nomadic herders and settled farmers fuel violent conflict—most intensely just before the p...
voxdev.org
July 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
We summarized our findings on how farmer-herder conflict influences the labor allocation of agricultural households in this @voxdev.bsky.social piece.
Here is a link to a longer thread on the paper, recently published in the JDE: bsky.app/profile/jeff...
Here is a link to a longer thread on the paper, recently published in the JDE: bsky.app/profile/jeff...
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🆕 What happens when humanitarian aid is cut or delayed?
Today on VoxDev, Vittorio Bruni (University of Oxford) & Olivier Sterck (University of Antwerp) demonstrate how aid cuts are having dramatic impacts on food security in one of the world's largest refugee camps: voxdev.org/topic/instit...
Today on VoxDev, Vittorio Bruni (University of Oxford) & Olivier Sterck (University of Antwerp) demonstrate how aid cuts are having dramatic impacts on food security in one of the world's largest refugee camps: voxdev.org/topic/instit...
What happens when humanitarian aid is cut or delayed?
Humanitarian aid systems are under mounting pressure, with key donors like the US and UK cutting funding despite growing needs. New research in one of the world’s largest refugee camps shows that aid ...
voxdev.org
June 11, 2025 at 10:37 AM
🆕 What happens when humanitarian aid is cut or delayed?
Today on VoxDev, Vittorio Bruni (University of Oxford) & Olivier Sterck (University of Antwerp) demonstrate how aid cuts are having dramatic impacts on food security in one of the world's largest refugee camps: voxdev.org/topic/instit...
Today on VoxDev, Vittorio Bruni (University of Oxford) & Olivier Sterck (University of Antwerp) demonstrate how aid cuts are having dramatic impacts on food security in one of the world's largest refugee camps: voxdev.org/topic/instit...
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The time for effective climate adaptation is running out. @opkuusela.bsky.social and @kallehi.bsky.social highlight that aid cuts threaten vulnerable communities and forward-looking policies are a necessity.
📖 Read this @uk.theconversation.com article here: go.unu.edu/zvOCO...
📖 Read this @uk.theconversation.com article here: go.unu.edu/zvOCO...
How aid cuts could make vulnerable communities even less resilient to climate change
Global cuts in development aid budgets could undermine climate finance commitments.
go.unu.edu
May 23, 2025 at 7:17 AM
The time for effective climate adaptation is running out. @opkuusela.bsky.social and @kallehi.bsky.social highlight that aid cuts threaten vulnerable communities and forward-looking policies are a necessity.
📖 Read this @uk.theconversation.com article here: go.unu.edu/zvOCO...
📖 Read this @uk.theconversation.com article here: go.unu.edu/zvOCO...
We wrote about a worrying trend: foreign aid is shrinking — and what’s left goes to emergency relief.
But without long-term climate investment, vulnerable communities stay stuck in crisis.
With @opkuusela.bsky.social:
theconversation.com/how-aid-cuts...
@ifpri.org @unu-wider.bsky.social
But without long-term climate investment, vulnerable communities stay stuck in crisis.
With @opkuusela.bsky.social:
theconversation.com/how-aid-cuts...
@ifpri.org @unu-wider.bsky.social
How aid cuts could make vulnerable communities even less resilient to climate change
Global cuts in development aid budgets could undermine climate finance commitments.
theconversation.com
May 20, 2025 at 8:15 AM
We wrote about a worrying trend: foreign aid is shrinking — and what’s left goes to emergency relief.
But without long-term climate investment, vulnerable communities stay stuck in crisis.
With @opkuusela.bsky.social:
theconversation.com/how-aid-cuts...
@ifpri.org @unu-wider.bsky.social
But without long-term climate investment, vulnerable communities stay stuck in crisis.
With @opkuusela.bsky.social:
theconversation.com/how-aid-cuts...
@ifpri.org @unu-wider.bsky.social
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✨ Speaker Spotlight: #GFPR2025 ✨
Michael Kremer, Professor in Economics, University of Chicago; 2019 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, will be speaking at the launch of the 2025 Global Food Policy Report—a special edition marking IFPRI’s 50th anniversary.
🔗 bit.ly/GFPR2025
#IFPRI50 @cgiar.org
Michael Kremer, Professor in Economics, University of Chicago; 2019 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, will be speaking at the launch of the 2025 Global Food Policy Report—a special edition marking IFPRI’s 50th anniversary.
🔗 bit.ly/GFPR2025
#IFPRI50 @cgiar.org
May 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
✨ Speaker Spotlight: #GFPR2025 ✨
Michael Kremer, Professor in Economics, University of Chicago; 2019 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, will be speaking at the launch of the 2025 Global Food Policy Report—a special edition marking IFPRI’s 50th anniversary.
🔗 bit.ly/GFPR2025
#IFPRI50 @cgiar.org
Michael Kremer, Professor in Economics, University of Chicago; 2019 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, will be speaking at the launch of the 2025 Global Food Policy Report—a special edition marking IFPRI’s 50th anniversary.
🔗 bit.ly/GFPR2025
#IFPRI50 @cgiar.org
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Just accepted: "Sleep hours fall as income rises: Macro and micro evidence on sleep inequality around the world", Cristián Jara, Francisca Pérez, and Rodrigo Wagner. Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.eh...
May 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Just accepted: "Sleep hours fall as income rises: Macro and micro evidence on sleep inequality around the world", Cristián Jara, Francisca Pérez, and Rodrigo Wagner. Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.eh...
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We did not want to start the week like this, but here we are. Yet again our chair’s inbox is filled with messages from replicators who have opened “replication” folders only to find names, Social Insurance Numbers, mental-health diagnoses and incomes of study participants. 🧵
May 13, 2025 at 12:44 PM
We did not want to start the week like this, but here we are. Yet again our chair’s inbox is filled with messages from replicators who have opened “replication” folders only to find names, Social Insurance Numbers, mental-health diagnoses and incomes of study participants. 🧵
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First post on Bluesky as a new user! Excited to connect with peers here.
Thrilled to share that our paper on air pollution from brick kilns in Bangladesh is published in Science—and it’s on the cover! Huge congrats to my amazing co-authors. Proud to be part of this work!
Thrilled to share that our paper on air pollution from brick kilns in Bangladesh is published in Science—and it’s on the cover! Huge congrats to my amazing co-authors. Proud to be part of this work!
Simple and inexpensive interventions aimed at making changes in how Bangladesh’s informal brink kilns operate could dramatically cut emissions and boost profits for producers, according to a new Science study.
Learn more in this week's issue: scim.ag/3GIqSm6
Learn more in this week's issue: scim.ag/3GIqSm6
May 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
First post on Bluesky as a new user! Excited to connect with peers here.
Thrilled to share that our paper on air pollution from brick kilns in Bangladesh is published in Science—and it’s on the cover! Huge congrats to my amazing co-authors. Proud to be part of this work!
Thrilled to share that our paper on air pollution from brick kilns in Bangladesh is published in Science—and it’s on the cover! Huge congrats to my amazing co-authors. Proud to be part of this work!
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The civil war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region was one of the deadliest of this century. The conflict ended with a ceasefire in November 2022. In Mekelle, Zeywegih Leyti describes the anxiety of waiting for another war.
One day in Mekelle
Just two years after the peace deal that ended the civil war, tensions in Ethiopia’s Tigray region are simmering.
continent.substack.com
March 8, 2025 at 8:14 AM
The civil war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region was one of the deadliest of this century. The conflict ended with a ceasefire in November 2022. In Mekelle, Zeywegih Leyti describes the anxiety of waiting for another war.
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We are looking to engage with researchers (especially early career based in the LMIC) on the labour market impacts of AI in developing countries.
The first step is a very short (!) expression of interest, to be followed by development of a more detailed proposal.
www.wider.unu.edu/opportunity/...
The first step is a very short (!) expression of interest, to be followed by development of a more detailed proposal.
www.wider.unu.edu/opportunity/...
UNU-WIDER : The effects of artificial intelligence on firm and labour market outcomes
UNU-WIDER requests research proposals for a project on the Firm and labour market effects of AI in developi
www.wider.unu.edu
February 22, 2025 at 9:23 AM
We are looking to engage with researchers (especially early career based in the LMIC) on the labour market impacts of AI in developing countries.
The first step is a very short (!) expression of interest, to be followed by development of a more detailed proposal.
www.wider.unu.edu/opportunity/...
The first step is a very short (!) expression of interest, to be followed by development of a more detailed proposal.
www.wider.unu.edu/opportunity/...
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10 days left to apply to the next edition of the "Firms, Labor Markets, and Development" Workshop to be held in Bari, Italy, on 20-21 June.
Keynote speaker: Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale)
Info: steg.cepr.org/events/firms...
@micheledimaio.bsky.social
@marimendola.bsky.social
@fscoamodio.bsky.social
Keynote speaker: Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale)
Info: steg.cepr.org/events/firms...
@micheledimaio.bsky.social
@marimendola.bsky.social
@fscoamodio.bsky.social
February 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
10 days left to apply to the next edition of the "Firms, Labor Markets, and Development" Workshop to be held in Bari, Italy, on 20-21 June.
Keynote speaker: Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale)
Info: steg.cepr.org/events/firms...
@micheledimaio.bsky.social
@marimendola.bsky.social
@fscoamodio.bsky.social
Keynote speaker: Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale)
Info: steg.cepr.org/events/firms...
@micheledimaio.bsky.social
@marimendola.bsky.social
@fscoamodio.bsky.social
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Reminder to send your papers to the Nordic Conference in Development Econ. Oslo is beautiful in summertime, we will swim in the fjord! (and talk research of course) #econsky
Submit your papers to NCDE 2025, deadline February 28. Open to all, and very friendly! www.oslomet.no/en/about/eve...
Nordic Conference in Development Economics - NCDE 2025
Welcome to the 23rd Nordic Conference in Development Economics.
www.oslomet.no
February 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Reminder to send your papers to the Nordic Conference in Development Econ. Oslo is beautiful in summertime, we will swim in the fjord! (and talk research of course) #econsky
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We shouldn't take anything off the table before the negotiations have even started.
It is clear that any deal behind our backs will not work.
You need the Europeans, you need the Ukrainians.
Extracts from my doorstep ahead of NATO Defence Ministers meeting ↓
It is clear that any deal behind our backs will not work.
You need the Europeans, you need the Ukrainians.
Extracts from my doorstep ahead of NATO Defence Ministers meeting ↓
February 13, 2025 at 2:58 PM
We shouldn't take anything off the table before the negotiations have even started.
It is clear that any deal behind our backs will not work.
You need the Europeans, you need the Ukrainians.
Extracts from my doorstep ahead of NATO Defence Ministers meeting ↓
It is clear that any deal behind our backs will not work.
You need the Europeans, you need the Ukrainians.
Extracts from my doorstep ahead of NATO Defence Ministers meeting ↓
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Call for papers. Deadline: Feb 28
Firms, Labor Markets, and Development
Beautiful coastal city of Bari in southern Italy. A ferry ride away from Dubrovnik, Croatia
steg.cepr.org/events/firms...
Firms, Labor Markets, and Development
Beautiful coastal city of Bari in southern Italy. A ferry ride away from Dubrovnik, Croatia
steg.cepr.org/events/firms...
Firms, Labor Markets, and Development Workshop|STEG
The workshop, now at its 5th edition, seeks to promote the exchange and dissemination of new research in the field of development economics and its intersections with industrial organization, international trade, labor economics, and migration.
steg.cepr.org
February 4, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Call for papers. Deadline: Feb 28
Firms, Labor Markets, and Development
Beautiful coastal city of Bari in southern Italy. A ferry ride away from Dubrovnik, Croatia
steg.cepr.org/events/firms...
Firms, Labor Markets, and Development
Beautiful coastal city of Bari in southern Italy. A ferry ride away from Dubrovnik, Croatia
steg.cepr.org/events/firms...
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I am hearing that PEPFAR programs are still being stalled, and medication appointments cancelled, despite a waiver in place to allow life-saving programs to continue. Thus,
@belindaarch.bsky.social
and I are sharing the letter we wrote, signed by 110 economists, urging its continuation. 1/4
@belindaarch.bsky.social
and I are sharing the letter we wrote, signed by 110 economists, urging its continuation. 1/4
February 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I am hearing that PEPFAR programs are still being stalled, and medication appointments cancelled, despite a waiver in place to allow life-saving programs to continue. Thus,
@belindaarch.bsky.social
and I are sharing the letter we wrote, signed by 110 economists, urging its continuation. 1/4
@belindaarch.bsky.social
and I are sharing the letter we wrote, signed by 110 economists, urging its continuation. 1/4
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We could really use your help. We’re beginning this year with a big push for new subscribers – because the more subscribers we have, the easier it is for us to raise funding to keep doing the kind of journalism we do. Our subscription details are here 👇
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January 29, 2025 at 7:37 AM
We could really use your help. We’re beginning this year with a big push for new subscribers – because the more subscribers we have, the easier it is for us to raise funding to keep doing the kind of journalism we do. Our subscription details are here 👇
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Come to Oslo for the 23rd Nordic Conference in Development Economics! June 17–18, 2025.
Keynotes: Eliana La Ferrara (Harvard Kennedy School) Kalle Moene (University of Oslo).
No conference fee—just bring your passion for research! Submission deadline: Feb 28, 2025.
Link below:
Keynotes: Eliana La Ferrara (Harvard Kennedy School) Kalle Moene (University of Oslo).
No conference fee—just bring your passion for research! Submission deadline: Feb 28, 2025.
Link below:
January 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Come to Oslo for the 23rd Nordic Conference in Development Economics! June 17–18, 2025.
Keynotes: Eliana La Ferrara (Harvard Kennedy School) Kalle Moene (University of Oslo).
No conference fee—just bring your passion for research! Submission deadline: Feb 28, 2025.
Link below:
Keynotes: Eliana La Ferrara (Harvard Kennedy School) Kalle Moene (University of Oslo).
No conference fee—just bring your passion for research! Submission deadline: Feb 28, 2025.
Link below:
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Can a "big push" program help conflict-affected households in Somalia? Yup...
(p.s. big push = cash (9 months) + asset or TVET training + coaching + financial literacy + business facilitation + savings groups + disaster risk training)
@kallehi.bsky.social et al
www.ifpri.org/blog/graduat...
(p.s. big push = cash (9 months) + asset or TVET training + coaching + financial literacy + business facilitation + savings groups + disaster risk training)
@kallehi.bsky.social et al
www.ifpri.org/blog/graduat...
December 20, 2024 at 9:37 PM
Can a "big push" program help conflict-affected households in Somalia? Yup...
(p.s. big push = cash (9 months) + asset or TVET training + coaching + financial literacy + business facilitation + savings groups + disaster risk training)
@kallehi.bsky.social et al
www.ifpri.org/blog/graduat...
(p.s. big push = cash (9 months) + asset or TVET training + coaching + financial literacy + business facilitation + savings groups + disaster risk training)
@kallehi.bsky.social et al
www.ifpri.org/blog/graduat...
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🆕 #ResearchBlog by @kallehi.bsky.social, Naureen Karachiwalla, @leightjessica.bsky.social and @meanregressive.bsky.social:
Graduation from #poverty: Can a big push program help #conflict -affected households? Evidence from #Somalia
www.ifpri.org/blog/graduat...
@cgiar.org
Graduation from #poverty: Can a big push program help #conflict -affected households? Evidence from #Somalia
www.ifpri.org/blog/graduat...
@cgiar.org
Graduation from poverty: Can a big push program help conflict-affected households? Evidence from Somalia
Moving from assistance to self-sufficiency.
www.ifpri.org
December 19, 2024 at 3:22 PM
🆕 #ResearchBlog by @kallehi.bsky.social, Naureen Karachiwalla, @leightjessica.bsky.social and @meanregressive.bsky.social:
Graduation from #poverty: Can a big push program help #conflict -affected households? Evidence from #Somalia
www.ifpri.org/blog/graduat...
@cgiar.org
Graduation from #poverty: Can a big push program help #conflict -affected households? Evidence from #Somalia
www.ifpri.org/blog/graduat...
@cgiar.org
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New blog post! Hot-off-the-press evidence (from survey concluded 2 months ago): effectiveness of graduation model intervention targeting internally displaced households in Somalia @ifpri @ifpri.org @NKarachiwalla @kallehi.bsky.social <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jjkx4vjdxvuecbqrz2j3br4r" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@meanregressive.bsky.social @meanregressive
December 17, 2024 at 7:07 PM
New blog post! Hot-off-the-press evidence (from survey concluded 2 months ago): effectiveness of graduation model intervention targeting internally displaced households in Somalia @ifpri @ifpri.org @NKarachiwalla @kallehi.bsky.social <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jjkx4vjdxvuecbqrz2j3br4r" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@meanregressive.bsky.social @meanregressive
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Big news from Finnish publication forum. Almost all MDPI and Frontiers journals will be downgraded to level 0 and thus are not considered as properly peer reviewed trustworthy scientific journals.
julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...
julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...
Changes to the classification
julkaisufoorumi.fi
December 16, 2024 at 10:12 AM
Big news from Finnish publication forum. Almost all MDPI and Frontiers journals will be downgraded to level 0 and thus are not considered as properly peer reviewed trustworthy scientific journals.
julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...
julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...
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🆕 How programme design and local context shape the lasting effects of cash and food transfers
New on VoxDev by Akhter Ahmed @ifpri.org, Melissa Hidrobo @ifpri.org, John Hoddinott Cornell University, Bastien Kolt WHO, Shalini Roy @ifpri.org & Salauddin Tauseef @ifpri.org:
voxdev.org/topic/health...
New on VoxDev by Akhter Ahmed @ifpri.org, Melissa Hidrobo @ifpri.org, John Hoddinott Cornell University, Bastien Kolt WHO, Shalini Roy @ifpri.org & Salauddin Tauseef @ifpri.org:
voxdev.org/topic/health...
How programme design and local context shape the lasting effects of cash and food transfers
A transfer programme in Bangladesh led to sustained consumption increases and reduced poverty four years post-programme, but design and context mattered.
voxdev.org
December 16, 2024 at 1:00 PM
🆕 How programme design and local context shape the lasting effects of cash and food transfers
New on VoxDev by Akhter Ahmed @ifpri.org, Melissa Hidrobo @ifpri.org, John Hoddinott Cornell University, Bastien Kolt WHO, Shalini Roy @ifpri.org & Salauddin Tauseef @ifpri.org:
voxdev.org/topic/health...
New on VoxDev by Akhter Ahmed @ifpri.org, Melissa Hidrobo @ifpri.org, John Hoddinott Cornell University, Bastien Kolt WHO, Shalini Roy @ifpri.org & Salauddin Tauseef @ifpri.org:
voxdev.org/topic/health...
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15 years of lessons from #Ethiopia’s PSNP, all in one great paper!
Hoddinott et al
www.wider.unu.edu/sites/defaul...
Hoddinott et al
www.wider.unu.edu/sites/defaul...
December 15, 2024 at 11:10 PM
15 years of lessons from #Ethiopia’s PSNP, all in one great paper!
Hoddinott et al
www.wider.unu.edu/sites/defaul...
Hoddinott et al
www.wider.unu.edu/sites/defaul...
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New systematic lit review looks at #cashtransfers and other social assistance programs through a crisis lens in #Africa.
Hirvonen et al
www.wider.unu.edu/sites/defaul...
Hirvonen et al
www.wider.unu.edu/sites/defaul...
December 15, 2024 at 3:42 AM
New systematic lit review looks at #cashtransfers and other social assistance programs through a crisis lens in #Africa.
Hirvonen et al
www.wider.unu.edu/sites/defaul...
Hirvonen et al
www.wider.unu.edu/sites/defaul...