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“Like a Wave on Top of a Tsunami”: Have the Food Price and Financial Crises Increased World Hunger and Malnutrition?

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 Posted in Income/Poverty | 5 Comments »

by Charlie Teller, Bixby visiting scholar In 1995, the international community proclaimed the goal of reducing hunger by 50 percent by 2015. However, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that ... Read more..

Are You an Optimist or a Pessimist in Ethiopia?

Monday, June 29th, 2009 Posted in Education, Environment, Income/Poverty | 9 Comments »

by Charlie Teller, Bixby visiting scholar  Teaching an entire semester’s graduate course in three weeks at the end of the academic year seemed a dubious task under normal conditions. But teaching it ... Read more..

Is the Gold Standard for Impact Evaluation Fool’s Gold?

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 Posted in PRB News | No Comments »

by Charlie Teller, Bixby visiting scholar (Read Bill Butz's previous post on Gold Standard Evaluation here) The international conference, “Perspectives on Impact Evaluation: Approaches to Assessing Development Effectiveness” was held in Cairo ... Read more..

Traditional Agro-Forestry Strategies to Address High Population Pressure and the Livelihoods of Youth in Southern Ethiopia

Friday, April 17th, 2009 Posted in Environment, PRB News | 3 Comments »

by Charlie Teller, Bixby visiting scholar “Wall-to-wall houses along the dirt road, clinging to the steep mountainsides,” is what I, a demography professor at Addis Ababa University, heard from fellow participants ... Read more..

Where Are the Missing Three Million Ethiopians from the New Census: In Washington DC, in the Middle East or Hiding?

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 Posted in Population Basics | 1 Comment »

Editor’s note: A previous version of this post did not include the concluding paragraph. We apologize for the accidental omission. by Charles Teller, PRB visiting scholar and Senait Tibebu, demographer, Addis ... Read more..

Is Africa Being Eaten by the Malthusian Dragon?

Thursday, October 16th, 2008 Posted in Population Basics | No Comments »

by Charles Teller, Bixby Visiting Scholar Malthus predicted over 200 years ago that population growth would outrun food production and cause much misery in the world, and we've been struggling with ... Read more..