Research

Google Scholar

In the news

Briefs

1. ADA (2023). Financing agricultural value chains: results and lessons learnt from the experience of the microfinance institution FUCEC in Togo. Luxembourg, ADA. (Version in French) NEW

2. Dao, T.H., Bauwin, M. (2022). OKO Mali index-based agricultural insurance. Luxembourg, ADA. (Version in French)

3. FAO (2021). Complementing cash with productive inputs to improve food security and resilience among the extreme poor in Mali. Rome, FAO. (Version in Spanish)

4. FAO (2018). Characteristics, dynamics and drivers of rural migration in Senegal: Case study in Kaolack and Matam. Rome, FAO. (Version in French)

5. FAO (2018). Caractéristiques et impacts des transferts de fonds et de compétences des migrants. Rome, FAO.

Reports

1. Dao, T.H., Bauwin, M. (2023). Improving the living conditions of cashew nut producers in Burkina Faso. Luxembourg, ADA. (Version in French). NEW

2. Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation, ADA Microfinance, Inpulse (2021). COVID-19. The impact of the crisis on microfinance institutions. Analyses and perspectives. (Versions in French, Spanish)

3. Bauwin, M., Dao, T.H. (2021). Microfinance clients facing the COVID-19 crisis: from findings to action for MFIs. Luxembourg, ADA. (Versions in French, Spanish)

4. Dao, T.H., Daidone, S. and Kangasniemi, M. (2021). Evaluating the impacts of the FAO's Cash+ Programme in Mali. Rome, FAO. 

5. Dao, T.H. (2021). Strengthening coherence between social protection and agricultural interventions - The case of Mali. Rome, FAO. 

6. FAO (2021). Complementing cash with productive inputs to improve food security and resilience among the extreme poor in Mali. Rome, FAO. (Version in Spanish)

7. FAO (2020). Characteristics, patterns and drivers of rural migration in Senegal. Rome, FAO.

8. FAO (2018). The State of Food and Agriculture 2018. Migration, agriculture and rural development. Rome, FAO. (Versions in Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish, Russian). Test your knowledge here.

9. OECD (2014). Social Cohesion Policy Review of Viet Nam. Paris, OECD.

Workshop results

1. Empowering women in agri-food systems with impact investing NEW

2. Fostering agroecological transitions

3. Agricultural insurance for smallholder farmers

4. Digital solution for smallholder farmers

5. Voluntary certification in agriculture: benefits and shortcomings

Video content

1. L'approche holistique de financement des chaînes de valeur agricoles de la FUCEC.

2. Le mécanisme de financement de la FUCEC pour la chaîne de valeur de l'ananas.

3. Le mécanisme de financement de la FUCEC pour la chaîne de valeur du cacao.

4. Rural migration in Senegal.

Open datasets

1. Food and Agriculture Microdata Catalogue: Impact Evaluation of the FAO’s Cash(+) Project in Mali

2. Food and Agriculture Microdata Catalogue: Rural Youth Migration and Women's Empowerment in Agriculture

Projects' websites

1. Improving the articulation between social protection interventions and rural productive development in developing countries: lessons from Latin America and Africa

2. Fostering productive investments to create decent farm and nonfarm jobs for rural youth in migration-prone areas of Senegal

Peer-reviewed articles

1. Dao, T. H., Docquier, F., Maurel, M., & Schaus, P. (2021). Global migration in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: the unstoppable force of demography. Review of World Economics, 157(2), 417-449.

2. Dao, T. H., Docquier, F., Parsons, C., & Peri, G. (2018). Migration and development: Dissecting the anatomy of the mobility transition. Journal of Development Economics, 132, 88-101.

PhD thesis

Dao, T. H. (2018). On the fundamental drivers of international migration. Bielefeld, Universität Bielefeld. 

Workshops and conferences

• 7th European Research Conference on Microfinance, Glasgow Caledonian University (Glasgow, United Kindom).

• Workshop on ‘Synergies between Social Protection and Productive Promotion in Latin America and Africa', IFAD headquarters (Rome, Italy).

• National workshop of the project ‘Fostering productive investments to create decent farm and non-farm jobs for rural youth in migration-prone areas in Senegal' (Dakar, Senegal).

• Workshop on ‘The drivers and impacts of migration and labour mobility in origins and destinations: Building the evidence base for policies that promote safe, orderly and regular people's and labour mobility for poverty reduction and sustainable development', FAO Headquarters (Rome, Italy).

• 4th SITES-IDEAs Annual Conference on Development Topics, University of Rome Tor Vergata (Rome, Italy).

• 8th International Conference on ‘Economics of Global Interactions: New Perspectives on Trade, Factor Mobility and Development', University of Bari Aldo Moro (Bari, Italy).

• 17th Doctoral Meetings in International Trade and International Finance, Network Research in International Economics and Finance (RIEF), University of Lille (Lille, France).

• Neuchâtel Graduate Conference of Migration and Mobility Studies, University of Neuchâtel (Neuchâtel, Switzerland).

• Workshop on 'Understanding Voluntary and Forced Migration: Research and Data needed', University of Lille, (Lille, France).

• 9th Vietnam Economist Annual Meeting (VEAM) (Da Nang, Vietnam). Prize for the best research paper presented.

• 1st NOVAFRICA PhD Workshop on Migration and Development, Nova School of Business and Economics (Lisbon, Portugal).

• CEMIR Junior economist workshop on migration research, CES Ifo (Munich, Germany).