Agnes Quisumbing

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OccupationsEconomist, Professor
Academic background
Alma mater

Agnes Quisumbing is an economist and a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute. [1] She holds a PhD from the University of the Philippines [ which? ] (including a year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and a bachelor's degree from De La Salle University.

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Career and policy work

Quisumbing started her career at the University of the Philippines[ which? ]. From 1988 to 1991 she was at the Economic Growth Center at Yale University winning a Rockefeller Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. She then joined the World Bank where she worked at the Population and Human Resources Division from 1991 to 1995. Since 1995, she is a research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute. [1]

Research

Quisumbing's research focuses on intrahousehold allocation, gender and poverty. [2] Her most quoted paper focuses on marriage and intrahousehold allocation in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Indonesia and South Africa. [3] With Sabina Alkire, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Amber Peterman, Greg Seymour and Ana Vaz, she also compiled a women's empowerment in agriculture index which measures the "empowerment, agency, and inclusion of women in the agricultural sector". [4] Her works has been quoted over 36000 times [5] and she is among the 120 most quoted women economists in the world. [6] Her research has been quoted in the Washington Post [7] , Slate [8] and other media. [9]

References

  1. 1 2 "Agnes Quisumbing | IPFRI". www.ifpri.org. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  2. ↑ Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Pandolfelli, Lauren (2010-04-01). "Promising Approaches to Address the Needs of Poor Female Farmers: Resources, Constraints, and Interventions". World Development. 38 (4): 581–592. doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.10.006. ISSN   0305-750X.
  3. ↑ Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Maluccio, John A. (2003). "Resources at Marriage and Intrahousehold Allocation: Evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and South Africa*" . Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 65 (3): 283–327. doi:10.1111/1468-0084.t01-1-00052. ISSN   1468-0084.
  4. ↑ Alkire, Sabina; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth; Peterman, Amber; Quisumbing, Agnes; Seymour, Greg; Vaz, Ana (2013-12-01). "The Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index" . World Development. 52: 71–91. doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.06.007. hdl: 10535/8724 . ISSN   0305-750X.
  5. ↑ "Agnes Quisumbing - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  6. ↑ "Top Female Economists Rankings | IDEAS/RePEc". ideas.repec.org. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  7. ↑ Kessler, Glenn (March 3, 2015). "Analysis | The zombie statistic about women's share of income and property". Washington Post. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  8. ↑ Naím, Moisés (2015-03-18). "La chute de l'euro est une bonne nouvelle pour l'Europe". Slate.fr (in French). Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  9. ↑ archive, From our online (2012-05-16). "'40 percent Indian children are underweight'". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2026-02-08.


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