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  • 2012 - Leontief Prize, Global Development and Environment Institute

Overview

C. Peter Timmer is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research centers on social sciences with a focus on areas such as sociology and political science, political science and international relations, soil science, finance, and general health professions.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics including Southeast Asian sociopolitical studies, agricultural risk and resilience, Asian studies and history, socioeconomic development in Asia, social capital and networks, housing, finance and neoliberalism, and urban, neighborhood, and segregation studies.

Recent publications by C. Peter Timmer include:

  • Living Standards in Southeast Asia: Changes over the Long Twentieth Century, 1900-2015 (2020), Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies
  • Food Systems Carry Heavy Burdens and Politics Are Making Things Worse (2022), Nature Food
  • How to Manage a World Food Crisis: A Viewpoint (2022), Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development
  • Periphery and Small Ones Matter: Interplay of Policy and Social Capital (2022), Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies
  • Asia's Journey to Prosperity: Policy, Market, and Technology over 50 Years (2020), The Developing Economies

They have collaborated with co-author David Dawe in their research activities.

The frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development
  • Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies
  • The Developing Economies
  • Nature Food

C. Peter Timmer has published books including titles with Cornell University Press eBooks. One such book is Agriculture and the State (2020).

Among their recognitions is the Leontief Prize awarded by the Global Development and Environment Institute in 2012.

Best Publications

  • The Rise of Supermarkets in Africa, Asia, and Latin America

    Thomas Reardon;C. Peter Timmer;Christopher B. Barrett;Julio Berdegué

  • Food Policy Analysis

    Walter P. Falcon;C. Peter Timmer;Scott R. Pearson

  • Supermarket revolution in Asia and emerging development strategies to include small farmers

    Thomas Reardon;C. Peter Timmer;Bart Minten

  • Reflections on food crises past

    C. Peter Timmer

  • A World Without Agriculture: The Structural Transformation in Historical Perspective

    C. Peter Timmer

  • The Economics of the Food System Revolution

    Thomas Reardon;C. Peter Timmer

  • Farmers and Markets: The Political Economy of New Paradigms

    C. Peter Timmer

  • Getting Prices Right: The Scope and Limits of Agricultural Price Policy

    C. Peter Timmer

  • Macro shocks and micro outcomes: child nutrition during Indonesia's crisis.

    Steven A Block;Lynnda Kiess;Patrick Webb;Soewarta Kosen

  • The macro dimensions of food security: economic growth, equitable distribution, and food price stability

    C.Peter Timmer

  • The Structural Transformation as a Pathway Out of Poverty: Analytics, Empirics and Politics

    C. Peter Timmer;Selvin Akkus

  • Food price policy: The rationale for government intervention

    C.Peter Timmer

  • Causes of High Food Prices

    C. Peter Timmer

  • A Century-Long Perspective on Agricultural Development

    Christopher B. Barrett;Michael R. Carter;C. Peter Timmer

  • Chapter 8 The agricultural transformation

    C. Peter Timmer

  • Chapter 55 Transformation of Markets for Agricultural Output in Developing Countries Since 1950: How Has Thinking Changed?

    Thomas Reardon;C. Peter Timmer

  • Agriculture and pro-poor growth: an Asian perspective.

    C. Peter Timmer

  • Five inter-linked transformations in the Asian agrifood economy: Food security implications

    Thomas Reardon;Thomas Reardon;Thomas Reardon;C. Peter Timmer

  • Estimating Consumption Parameters for Food Policy Analysis

    C. Peter Timmer;Harold Alderman

  • Getting agriculture moving: do markets provide the right signals?

    C.Peter Timmer

  • Agricultural Development in Indonesia

    C. Peter Timmer

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Reardon
Thomas Reardon Michigan State University
Christopher B. Barrett
Christopher B. Barrett Cornell University
Samuel H. Preston
Samuel H. Preston University of Pennsylvania
Patrick Webb
Patrick Webb Tufts University
Michael R. Carter
Michael R. Carter University of California, Davis
Bart Minten
Bart Minten International Food Policy Research Institute

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