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The Critical Role of Soft Skills in Labour Market Success

2024.08.26

In today’s rapidly evolving labour market, the importance of soft skills cannot be overstated. Thes…
Do key informants agree with representative households on climate exposure and resilience?

2024.04.09

Ethiopia is facing increasing climate-induced hazards, such as droughts, especially in rural and…
Understanding how the pandemic is shaping extreme poverty: can big data help?

2021.10.16

For the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 2021, Finn Tarp, Nikos Tzavidis, Peter…
Words from the intern: Ethiopia

2020.03.22

“Building Resilience to Climate Change in Ethiopia: Exploring Options for Action”, a collaborative…
Nobel prize in economics: experiments are no substitute for diagnosis

2019.10.30

Sitting in front of a class of 20 young students at a private technical-vocational college on the…
Building Resilience to Climate Change in Ethiopia - What do we know so far?

2019.10.23

Climate change is not only a future threat, it is already here and the rural poor, who depend on…
Mozambique case study shows that poverty is about much more than income

2019.08.20

What does it mean to be poor? On the face of it, this may not sound like a very difficult question.…
Poverty measurements for policy makers

2019.05.01

In order to reduce poverty you must be able to measure it. It sounds so obvious, but in my…