The Policy Research Institute (PRI) of Bangladesh in partnership with Devesh Roy, Mamata Pradhan, Sunil Saroj, and Abul Kamar from IFPRI-South Asia, conducted a two-day capacity strengthening program on agri-food trade policy analysis in Dhaka. The training brought together participants, experts, and stakeholders from leading institutions in India and Bangladesh from the agri-food trade sector. […]
This section provides training material and brief descriptions on related training activities undertaken by IFPRI staff on trade flow analysis.
Please watch the video below for introduction to the training material in this section:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NXw4SrsiEtEDQlyewn-T6sNMhpI93XUt/view?usp=sharing
Book volume on ‘Exploring Cooperation in Sustainable Agriculture and Value Addition in BIMSTEC Region’
RIS, the South Asia regional hub under PRCI, has been keenly focusing on examining the prospects and role of agriculture and its specific sub-sectors in fostering the process of intraregional trade in the BIMSTEC region. In 2021, RIS organized a regional workshop ‘Exploring Cooperation and Sustainable Agriculture in the BIMSTEC’ in October 2021. The workshop […]
Presentation on ‘The Effects of FDI Liberalization on Structural Transformation and Demographic Change: Evidence from China’
In the spring of 2023, the Department of Economics at the University of Houston hosted the 20th Midwest International Economic Development Conference (MWIEDC). Jessica Leight from IFPRI presented a paper on "The Effects of FDI Liberalization on Structural Transformation and Demographic Change: Evidence from China" at the conference. The paper is joint with Bilge Erten and Lianming Zhu. […]
Workshop on BIMSTEC agricultural trade analysis
IFPRI’s South Asia Office, in partnership with Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), hosted a two-day training program on Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) agricultural trade analysis on February 17th and 18th, 2023 in Puducherry, India. The training had 16 male and 18 female participants. It was […]
Trade flow analysis training using R
Under the USAID funded PRCI project, Kasetsart University, Thailand, conducted a three part workshop on 'International trade flow analysis training using R' in Oct-Nov 2022. The workshop topic was chosen based on the growing need for analyzing trade data sets by researchers and policymakers to better understand trade flows with other countries and create effective […]