Bart Minten, a Belgian citizen, joined IFPRI as a senior research fellow in December 2006. His research at the New Delhi office will focus on the effects of agri-business development and changes in agricultural marketing on the structure of food systems in South Asia. Prior to joining IFPRI, he most recently was the senior research associate for the Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program in Madagascar. He also has held the position of assistant professor at the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Economics, KU Leuven, as well as teaching positions at Cornell University and the University of Antananarivo, Madagascar. Bart received his Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from Cornell University.

• Madagascar
• India
• Congo
• Uganda
• Mexico

• Global retail chains and poor farmers: Evidence from Madagascar
  2007. Minten, B.; Randrianarison, L.; Swinnen, J. World Development. (forthcoming)
• Is Land Titling in Sub-Saharan Africa Cost-Effective? Evidence from Madagascar
  2007. Jacoby, H.; Minten, B. World Bank Economic Review 21(2).
• Crime, Transitory Poverty, and Isolation: Evidence from Madagascar
  2006. Fafchamps, M.; Minten, B. Economic Development and Cultural Change 54(3): 579-604.
• Unraveling the Linkages between the Millennium Development Goals for Poverty, Education, Access to Water and Household Water Use in Developing Countries: Evidence from Madagascar
  2006. Larson, B.; Minten, B.; Razafindralambo, R. Journal of Development Studies 42(1): 1-21.
• Increasing returns and market efficiency in agricultural trade
  2005. Fafchamps, M.; Gabre-Madhin, E.; Minten, B. Journal of Development Economics 78: 406-422.
• Determinants of forest cover and the economics of protection: An application to Mexico
  2002. Deininger, K.; Minten, B. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 84(4): 943-960.
• Returns to social network capital among traders
  2002. Fafchamps, M.; Minten, B. Oxford Economic Papers 54: 173-206
• Social capital and trade
  2001. Fafchamps, M.; Minten, B. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 83(3): 680-685.
• Retail Margins, Price Transmission, and Price Asymmetry in Urban Food Markets: the case of Kinshasa (Zaire)
  2000. Minten, B.; Kyle, S. Journal of African Economies 9(1): 1-23.
• The impact of distance and road quality on food collection, marketing margins, and traders' wages: Evidence from the former Zaire
  1999. Minten, B.; Kyle, S. Journal of Development Economics 60(2): 467-495