2026 Nicholas Minot: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	47	1594	1424	954	830	147	9176

Overview

Nicholas Minot is affiliated with the International Food Policy Research Institute in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on economics, econometrics, and finance, supplemented by significant contributions to agricultural and biological sciences.

The scientist's work spans several key topics including:

Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets
Market Dynamics and Volatility
Agricultural risk and resilience
Global trade and economics
Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
Agricultural Economics and Practices

Minot's main fields of study emphasize:

Economics and Econometrics
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Soil Science
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Safety Research

The scientist's recent published papers include:

"The impacts of price insulation on world wheat markets during the 2022 food price crisis" (2022, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics)
"Distributional impacts of the rice tariffication policy in the Philippines" (2020, Economic Analysis and Policy)
"Food Trade Policy and Food Price Volatility" (2024, SSRN Electronic Journal)
"Do remote areas benefit from economic growth? Evidence from Uganda" (2021, Journal of International Development)
"Agricultural Commercialization in Ethiopia: Household Determinants and Links to Rising Income" (2021, AgEcon Search, University of Minnesota, USA)

Frequent publication venues where Minot's work appears include:

SSRN Electronic Journal
AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA)
Food Policy
Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Economic Analysis and Policy

Collaborations feature several frequent co-authors who have contributed to multiple works alongside Minot. These include:

Jean Balié
Harold Glenn A. Valera
William J. Martin
Abdullah Mamun
Gashaw Tadesse Abate

Best Publications

Impact of Contract Farming on Income: Linking Small Farmers, Packers, and Supermarkets in China

Sachiko Miyata;Nicholas Minot;Dinghuan Hu

703
Citations
Reforming agricultural markets in Africa: Achievements and challenges

Mylene Kherallah;Christopher L. Delgado;Eleni Z. Gabre-Madhin;Nicholas Minot

435
Citations
Rice market liberalization and poverty in Viet Nam

Nicholas Minot;Francesco Goletti

415
Citations
Growth in high-value agriculture in Asia and the emergence of vertical links with farmers.

A. Gulati;N. Minot;C. Delgado;S. Bora

400
Citations
The road half traveled: agricultural market reform in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Mylene Kherallah;Christopher L. Delgado;Eleni Z. Gabre-Madhin;Nicholas Minot

395
Citations
Transmission of World Food Price Changes to Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa

Nicholas Minot

380
Citations
Income Diversification And Poverty in the Northern Uplands of Vietnam

Nicholas Minot;Michael Epprecht;Tran Thi Tram Anh;Le Quang Trung

331
Citations
Are Horticultural Exports a Replicable Success Story? Evidence from Kenya and Côte d'Ivoire

Nicholas Minot;Margaret Ngigi

330
Citations
Contract Farming and Its Effect on Small Farmers in Less Developed Countries

Nicholas Minot

279
Citations
Reforming Agricultural Markets in Africa

Mylene Kherallah;Christopher L. Delgado;Eleni Z. Gabre-Madhin;Nicholas Minot

277
Citations
Food price volatility in sub-Saharan Africa: Has it really increased?

Nicholas Minot

273
Citations
Poverty and inequality in Vietnam: spatial patterns and geographic determinants

Nicholas Minot;Bob Baulch;Michael Epperecht

246
Citations
Fertilizer subsidies in Africa, are vouchers the answer?

Nicholas Minot;Todd Benson

202
Citations
Export Liberalization and Household Welfare: The Case of Rice in Vietnam

Nicholas Minot;Francesco Goletti

197
Citations
Economic Growth, Poverty, and Household Welfare in Vietnam

Paul Glewwe;Nisha Agrawal;David Dollar;John Luke Gallup

185
Citations
Generating Disaggregated Poverty Maps: An Application to Vietnam

Nicholas Minot

177
Citations
Impact of global cotton markets on rural poverty in Benin

Nicholas Minot;Lisa Daniels

168
Citations
Are Staple Food Markets in Africa Efficient? Spatial Price Analyses and Beyond

Shahidur Rashid;Nicholas Minot

148
Citations
What factors explain women's empowerment? Decision-making among small-scale farmers in Uganda

Mila Sell;Nicholas Minot

134
Citations
Sources of Agricultural Growth in India: Role of Diversification towards High-Value Crops

P.K. Joshi;Pratap Singh Birthal;Nicholas Minot

115
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Bob Baulch RMIT University

John Pender United States Department of Agriculture

Clement A. Tisdell University of Queensland

Joachim von Braun University of Bonn

Alan de Brauw International Food Policy Research Institute

Michael P. Johnson Pennsylvania State University

Phong Q. Nguyen French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA

Adam Wagstaff World Bank

Claudia Ringler International Food Policy Research Institute

Timothy P. Robinson Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

External Links

Personal website of Nicholas Minot Google Scholar page

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