Nicholas W. Minot is a senior research fellow in the Markets, Trade and Institutions Division. Since joining IFPRI in 1997, he has carried out research on the agricultural market reform, fertilizer policy, fruit and vegetable markets, and the spatial patterns in poverty, working in Vietnam, China, Benin, Malawi, Tanzania, and Egypt. He is the leader of a research program on strategies for promoting the participation of small farmers in high-value agricultural commodity supply chains. Before joining IFPRI he taught at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and worked as a policy adviser in Zimbabwe and as a survey analyst in Rwanda. He also carried out research on agricultural marketing in Bolivia, Cameroon, and Peru, on small enterprises in Laos, and on household budgets in Paraguay. A U.S. citizen, he received his Ph.D. and M.S. in agricultural economics from Michigan State University and his B.A. in international development from Brown University.

• Public Policies for Rural Institutions, Markets and Infrastructure Development
• Participation in High-Value Agricultural Markets

• Vietnam
• Benin
• Malawi
• Tanzania
• Egypt
• Bolivia
• Peru
• China
• Africa
• East Africa
• West Africa
• Southeast Asia
• Latin America

• Impact of global cotton markets on rural poverty in Benin
  Minot, N. and L. Daniels. Agricultural Economics. 33 (supplement): 453-466. 2005.
  See MSSD Discussion Paper 48: (PDF 352K)
• Spatial patterns of poverty in Vietnam and their implications for policy
  Minot, N. and B. Baulch. Food Policy. 30: 461-475. 2005.
• Poverty mapping with aggregated census data: What is the loss in precision
  N. Minot and B. Baulch. Review of Development Economics 9 (1): 5-24. 2005.
  See MSSD Discussion Paper 49: (PDF 337K)
• Adjustment of wheat production to market reform in Egypt
  Kherallah, M, N. Minot, and P. Gruhn. In H. Lofgren (ed.) Research in Middle East Economies. JAI Press Inc. 2003.
  See MSSD Discussion Paper 32: (PDF 192K)
• Reforming Agricultural Markets in Africa: Achievements and Challenges
  Kherallah, M, et al. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2002.
• Rice Market Liberalization and Poverty in Viet Nam
  Minot, N. and F. Goletti. IFPRI Research Report No 114. Washington, D.C. 2000.
  (PDF 524K)
• Agriculture in Tanzania since 1986: Follower or Leader of Growth
  Delgado, C. and N. Minot. A World Bank Country Study. IFPRI/The World Bank. Washington, D.C. 2000.
• Generating disaggregated poverty maps: An application to Viet Nam
  Minot, N. World Development 28 (2): 319-331. 2000.
  See MSSD Discussion Paper 25: (PDF 1.1M)
• Distributional and nutritional impact of devaluation in Rwanda
  Minot, N. Economic Development and Cultural Change. 46 (2) (January): 379-402. 1998.
• Export liberalization and household welfare: The case of rice in Viet Nam
  Minot, N. and F. Goletti. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 80 (November): 738-749. 1998.