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 […]
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
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 […]
Best Practices and Lessons from Virtual Training on ‘Trade Flow Analysis’
By: Suresh Babu, Xinshen Diao, and Nandita Srivastava December 2021 Introduction This blog is part of a blog series on ‘Conducting Virtual Training during COVID-19: IFPRI Researchers’ Experience’. It will focus on best practices and approaches, key challenges and opportunities, and the way forward. This blog post reflects on the experience of a three-module virtual […]