Thomas Reardon, C. Peter Timmer, Christopher B. Barrett, Julio A. Berdegué
Supermarkets are traditionally viewed by development economists, policymakers, and practitioners as the rich world's place to shop. The three regions discussed here have a great majority of the poor on the planet. But supermarkets are no longer just niche players for rich consumers in the capital ci...
Paul Richardson, Christopher J. Hawkey, W. A. Stack
Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are drugs which irreversibly inhibit proton pump (H+/K+ ATPase) function and are the most potent gastric acid-suppressing agents in clinical use. There is now a substantial body of evidence showing improved efficacy of PPIs over the histamine H2 receptor antagonists and...
Suzanne Barrett, Christopher Kelly, Robert Bell, David King
OBJECTIVE: Despite evidence that gender may influence neurocognitive functioning, few studies have examined its effects in bipolar disorder (BD) a priori. The aim of this study was to examine how gender influences executive-type functions, which are potentially useful as endophenotypes for BD. METHO...
Christopher B. Barrett, Asad Islam, Abdul Mohammad Malek, Debayan Pakrashi et al.
We report the results of a large‐scale, multi‐year experimental evaluation of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI), an innovation that first emerged in Madagascar in the 1980s and has now diffused to more than fifty countries. Using a randomized training saturation design with a pure control gro...
Christopher B. Barrett
Abstract Agri-food systems transformation requires accelerated innovations to address multiple economic, environmental and health objectives. No innovation serves everyone’s interests. Political opposition to innovations is therefore inevitable. Promotion of agrifood systems innovations requires ove...
Christopher B. Barrett, Asad Islam, Debayan Pakrashi, Ummul Ruthbah et al.
We report the results of a large-scale, multi-year experimental evaluation of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI), an innovation that first emerged in Madagascar in the 1980s and has now diffused to more than 50 countries. Using a randomized training saturation design, we find that greater cros...
Christopher Dawson, Barrett, J. C. Ross