Tewodaj Mogues is a Research Fellow in IFPRI. She joined the DSG division in February 2005 to undertake research on public investment for poverty reduction in Ethiopia and other countries. Dr. Mogues received her Bachelors degree in Economics from Kalamazoo College (1995), and her Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from University of Wisconsin-Madison (2005). She was born in Ethiopia and is a German citizen.

• Returns to public investment for poverty reduction
• Long-term effects of shocks on household assets and welfare
• Social capital

• Ethiopia
• Africa

• The Bang for the Birr: Public Expenditures and Rural Welfare in Ethiopia
  2007. Mogues, T.; Ayele, G.; Paulos, Z. IFPRI Discussion Paper No. 702.
• Poverty Traps and Natural Disasters in Ethiopia and Honduras
  2007. Carter, M.R.; Little, P.D.; Mogues, T.; Negatu, W. World Development 35(5): 835-856.
• Public Investment Composition and Rural Welfare in Ethiopia
  2006. Mogues, T.; Ayele, G.; Paulos, Z.; Fan, S. Working Paper.
• Moving In Place: Drought and Poverty Dynamics in South Wollo, Ethiopia
  2006. Little, P.D.; Stone, P.; Mogues, T.; Castro, P.; Negatu, W. Journal of Development Studies 42(2): 200-225.
• Social Capital and the Reproduction of Economic Inequality in Polarised Societies
  2005. Mogues, T.; Carter, M.R. Journal of Economic Inequality 3(3): 193-219.
• Shocks, Livestock Asset Dynamics, and Social Capital in Ethiopia
  2005. Mogues, T. Revise and resubmit: Economic Development and Cultural Change.
• Social Capital and Incentive Compatibility: Modelling the Accumulation and Use of Social Collateral
  2001. Mogues, T.; Carter, M.R. Staff Paper No.460, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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• Report on the National Workshop on the Promotion of the Informal Sector for Development in Africa
  1998. Mogues, T. United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Addis Abeba.