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Post-Doc: Economics of Climate Services (Ethiopia)
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) seeks to recruit a Post-doctoral Scientist (Economics of Climate Services), to support a USAID funded project on Climate Services for Africa. The project is implemented by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). The position seeks to improve methodology and strengthen quantitative evidence to […]
Tags: #CGIAR #Climate Services #Economics #International Livestock Research Institute #Post-doc
PhD Fellowship: Agri-Food Systems (Norway)
The Department hereby invites proposals for PhD projects that are aimed at developing new knowledge on agri-food systems within the broader field of International Environment and Development Studies. Priority will be given to creative and innovative proposals addressing “agri-food systems and environmental change” within or across the following thematic foci: Agri-cultures: Research on agriculture as […]
Tags: #Agrobiodiversity #Environmental Change #PhD Fellowship
Doctoral Fellowship – Politics of Data (Norway)
The Department hereby invites proposals for PhD projects that are aimed at developing new research on International Political Economy in the interface between International Environment and Development Studies. Priority will be given to creative and innovative proposals addressing “the politics of numbers” within or across the following thematic and theoretical foci: 1) Global Political Economy […]
Tags: #PhD Fellowship #Political Economy #Politics of Data #Politics of Development #Politics of Numbers
Post-Doc: Sustainability Research Effectiveness (Canada)
Royal Roads University is seeking a Post-Doctoral Researcher to contribute to the program of the Canada Research Chair in Sustainability Research Effectiveness. The CRC program aims to Develop an international network of collaborators with a focus on impact and effectiveness in sustainability research Develop and test evaluation approaches and methods for transdisciplinary research, building on […]
Tags: #Evaluation #Impact Evaluation #Post-doc #Research Effectiveness #Sustainability
The Mystery of Capital (2000) de Soto
Talking with undergraduate and graduate students has led me to believe that fewer people are investing their time in books. Wikipedia provides the long version, and Twitter keeps us up to date. One important thing that we have lost, in development studies and generally, is a more grounded understanding of where ideas came from and how they […]
Tags: #Capital #Capitalism #Development economics #Private Property #Property Rights
PhD Scholarship (Targeted Governmental Aid, Health)
Suitably qualified candidates are invited to apply for this fully-funded, 3-year PhD studentship which is a collaboration between the Department of Economics at the University of Sheffield and The Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (The Global Fund), one of the largest and most influential multilateral institutions devoted to international development. This innovative […]
About me
Logan Cochrane
Associate Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last fifteen years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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