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Barrett, Christopher B. |
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Cornell University |
| Primary Field
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Human Environmental Sciences |
| Secondary Field
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Economic Sciences |
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Chris Barrett's fundamental research objective is to use economics to help reduce unnecessary human suffering manifest in ill health, malnutrition, poverty, vulnerability to manmade and natural disasters, and the degradation of the natural resources that support many poor people's future well-being. Applications range broadly, mostly focused on rural populations in African and Asia but we increasingly work in the United States as well. My group works extensively on the dynamics of poverty, food insecurity, malnutrition, and ill health, on resilience to shocks and stressors, on the functioning of agri-food value chains and systems, on policy, innovation and technological change to facilitate the structural transformation of low-income agrarian economies, and on the interrelationship between human well-being and stresses on the natural environment and climate. While I have done some theoretical work, most of our research is empirical, developing and applying methods to better identify the nature and causes of unnecessary human suffering and effective interventions to reduce it. |
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