Conference presentations

Keynote addresses, high-level conferences and seminars, selected

  1. “Youth Jobs, Skill and Educational Mismatches in Africa”?, Paper presented at the 3rd Annual IZA/World Bank/NJD/UNU-WIDER Jobs and Development Conference: Better Jobs for Development, September 1-4, 2020.

  2. “Credit constraints and farm productivity: Micro-level evidence from smallholder farmers in Ethiopia”, Paper presented at the 2016 African Economic Conference, Abuja, Nigeria, 5-7 December, 2016; and at the 2016 Global Development Finance Conference, Durban, South-Africa, 23-24 November, 2016.

  3. “Production risk, technology adoption, and farm productivity: Panel data evidence from Uganda”, Paper presented at the 2015 Structural Transformation of African Agriculture and Rural Spaces Conference, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 4-5 December, 2015.

  4. “Food price shocks induced poverty traps: Analysis using a panel dataset from Uganda”. Paper presented at the Workshop “Commodity market instability and asymmetries in developing countries: Development impacts and policies”, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 24-25 June, 2015, Ferdi (Fondation pour les Etudes et Recherches sur le Développement International).

  5. “Welfare changes and exposure to food price shocks in Uganda: The role of non-separability and net market position”. Paper presented at the Dyson’s Graduate School Association Summer conference, 17 July, 2014, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA.

  6. “How strongly do agricultural risks and farmers’ expectations influence acreage decisions? Dynamic models of land use in Uganda”. Paper presented at the Second Bordeaux workshop in International economics and finance: Price risk management of agricultural commodities in developing countries, 5 December, 2014, Université de Bordeaux, France.