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"Need Versus Greed," Project Syndicate, 28 February 2011. [Download as PDF]
"To end the food crisis, the G20 must keep a promise." Financial Times, 18 February 2011.
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"Digital Soil Map of the World." with Pedro A. Sanchez, Sonya Ahamed, Florence Carré, Alfred E. Hartemink, Jonathan Hempel, Jeroen Huising, Philippe Lagacherie, Alex B. McBratney, Neil J. McKenzie, Maria de Lourdes Mendonça-Santos, Budiman Minasny, Luca Montanarella, Peter Okoth, Cheryl A. Palm, Keith D. Shepherd, Tor-Gunnar Vågen, Bernard Vanlauwe, Markus G. Walsh, Leigh A. Winowiecki, Gan-Lin Zhang. Science. 7 August 2009.
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"Input Subisidies to Improve Smallholder Maize Productivity in Malawi: Toward an African Green Revolution", with Glenn Denning, Patrick Kabambe, Pedro Sanchez, Alia Malik, Rafael Flor, Rebbie Harawa, Phelire Nkhoma, Colleen Zamba, Clement Banda, Chrispin Magombo, Michael Keating, and Justine Wangila. PLoS Biology, 7(1): e1000023. 27 January 2009. [Download article as PDF]
"Smallholder Food Production and Poverty Reduction: Principles for a Financial Coordination Mechanism to Support Smallholder Farmers." Ad Hoc Advisory Group to the Madrid Conference on Food Security,
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"Elite Education, Advanced Research and Innovation - Europe and the US in the Face of Challenges from the 'New World'" 8th Haniel Lecture, Duisburg, Germany, November 13, 2008
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"The Specter of Malthus Returns." Scientific American. September 2008.
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"The Millennium Development Goals: running out of excuses." G8 Summit 2008 publication. July 2008.
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"How to Solve the Growing Global Food Crisis, in Three Steps." NY Daily News. 23 July 2008. [Download as PDF]
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"Surging Food Prices and Global Stability." Scientific American. June 2008.
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"Bhagwati and Sachs on the Food Crisis." International Herald Tribune. 7 May 2008. [Download as PDF]
"The African Green Revolution," Scientific American, April 2008
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"Making Development Less Risky." Scientific American. August 2007. [Download as PDF]
"The Promise of the Blue Revolution." Scientific American. July 2007.
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"What a Little Fertilizer Can Do." Time. 26 July 2007.
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"How I'd fix the World Bank." Fortune. 26 June 2007.
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"How the Rich World can Help Africa Help Itself." Financial Times. 30 May 2007.
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"Rapid Victories Against Extreme Poverty," Scientific American. April 2007.
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"Africa's Lagging Demographic Transition: Evidence from Exogenous Impacts of Malaria Ecology and Agricultural Techonology," with Dalton Conley and Gordon C. McCord. NBER Working Paper 12892. February 2007.
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"Hitting the Target," with Guido Schmidt-Traub. Words into Action, IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings. September 2006.
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"Virtuous Circles and Fragile States." Scientific American. August 2006.
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"Investments Toward Sustainable Development," with Walter V. Reid. Science, Vol. 312. 19 May 2006.
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"Why Aid Does Matter," BBC Online, 11 September 2005.
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"How Africa lit up the world," Sunday Times Magazine, July 3, 2005.
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"The end of the world as we know it," The Guardian, April 5, 2005.
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"The End of Poverty," Time, March 14, 2005.
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"What the President Doesn't Want to Hear," Esquire, February 2005.
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“We Can End World Hunger: Here’s How,” with Pedro Sanchez, World Ark, November/ December 2004.
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"How to Halve World Poverty," The Economist -- The World in 2005, November 2004.
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"Ending World Hunger," Poder Magazine, October 2004.
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"Une révolution verte pour l'Afrique," with Pedro Sanchez, Le Monde, August 10, 2004.
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"Ending Africa' s Poverty Trap," with John W. McArthur, Guido Schmidt-Traub, Margaret Kruk, Chandrika Bahadur, Michael Faye and Gordon McCord, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Issue 1, 2004.
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"The Challenges Facing Landlocked Developing Countries," with Michael L. Faye, John W. McArthur, and Thomas Snow, Journal of Human Development, Vol. 5, No. 1, March 2004.
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“Touching the Rural Landscape,” with Nirupam Bajpai, The Hindu Business Line, 28 January 2004. [Download as PDF]
"Tropical Underdevelopment," NBER Working Paper 8119. February 2001.
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"The Best Possible Investment in Africa". New York Times. February 10, 2001. CIDNEWS. [Download as PDF]
"Agriculture, Climate, and Technology: Why are the Tropics Falling Behind?" with John Luke Gallup, American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Vol. 82, pp. 731-777, August 2000.
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"Helping the World's Poorest." The Economist, August 1999. [Download as PDF]
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