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Xinshen Diao is affiliated with the International Food Policy Research Institute in the United States. Their research spans several fields, primarily Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Economics, Econometrics and Finance. They have contributed to multiple subfields, including Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Modeling and Simulation, Plant Science, and Soil Science.

The scientist's work addresses various topics, with a particular focus on the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts, including epidemiological studies related to the pandemic. Their research also covers agricultural risk and resilience, agricultural innovations and practices, firm innovation and growth, environmental and biological research in conflict zones, and agriculture market analysis related to Ukraine.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Yumei Zhang, Bart Minten, Dani Rodrik, Margaret McMillan, and Mia Ellis. This collaboration has led to research published in several academic venues, such as Global Food Security, China Agricultural Economic Review, Agricultural Systems, China Economic Review, and China & World Economy.

Selected recent papers by Xinshen Diao include:

  • The Ukraine war and rising commodity prices: Implications for developing countries (2023, Global Food Security)
  • Impact of COVID-19 on China's macroeconomy and agri-food system - an economy-wide multiplier model analysis (2020, China Agricultural Economic Review)
  • Impacts of COVID-19 on agricultural production and food systems in late transforming Southeast Asia: The case of Myanmar (2020, Agricultural Systems)
  • The changing role of agriculture with economic structural change - The case of China (2020, China Economic Review)
  • The Impacts of COVID-19 on Migrants, Remittances, and Poverty in China: A Microsimulation Analysis (2021, China & World Economy)

Best Publications

  • The role of agriculture in African development.

    Xinshen Diao;Peter Hazell;James Thurlow

  • The Role of Agriculture in Development: Implications for Sub-Saharan Africa

    Xinshen Diao;Peter B.R. Hazell;Danielle Resnick;James Thurlow

  • Mechanization in Ghana: Emerging demand, and the search for alternative supply models

    Xinshen Diao;Frances Cossar;Nazaire Houssou;Shashidhara Kolavalli

  • A GLOBAL ANALYSIS OF AGRICULTURAL TRADE REFORM IN WTO MEMBER COUNTRIES

    Xinshen Diao;Agapi Somwaru;Terry L. Roe

  • Exploring Market Opportunities for African Smallholders

    Xinshen Diao;Peter B.R. Hazell

  • Growth Options and Poverty Reduction in Ethiopia: An Economy-Wide Model Analysis

    Xinshen Diao;Alejandro Nin Pratt

  • The Recent Growth Boom in Developing Economies: A Structural Change Perspective

    Xinshen Diao;Margaret McMillan;Dani Rodrik

  • The Ukraine war and rising commodity prices: Implications for developing countries

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  • Strategies and priorities for African agriculture: Economywide perspectives from country studies

    Xinshen Diao;James Thurlow;Samuel Benin;Shenggen Fan

  • Toward a green revolution in Africa: what would it achieve, and what would it require?

    Xinshen Diao;Derek Headey;Michael Johnson

  • Local impacts of a global crisis: food price transmission, consumer welfare and poverty in Ghana.

    Godsway Cudjoe;Clemens Breisinger;Xinshen Diao

  • Agricultural Growth and Investment Options for Poverty Reduction in Rwanda

    S.E. Benin;J. Thurlow;X. Diao;C. McCool

  • Regional Disparities in Ghana: Policy Options and Public Investment Implications

    Ramatu M. Al-Hassan;Xinshen Diao

  • COVID-19 on China's macroeconomy and agri-food system - an economy-wide multiplier model analysis

    Yumei Zhang;Xinshen Diao;Kevin Z. Chen;Sherman Robinson

  • Strategic policies and growth: an applied model of R & D-driven endogenous growth

    Xinshen Diao;Terry Roe;A. Erinc Yeldan

  • Mechanization and Agricultural Technology Evolution, Agricultural Intensification in Sub-Saharan Africa: Typology of Agricultural Mechanization in Nigeria

    Hiroyuki Takeshima;Alejandro Nin—Pratt;Xinshen Diao

  • Strategic Priorities for Agricultural Development in Eastern and Central Africa

    Steven Were Omamo;Xinshen Diao;Stanley Wood;Jordan Chamberlin

  • International spillovers, productivity growth and openness in Thailand: an intertemporal general equilibrium analysis

    Xinshen Diao;Jørn Rattsø;Hildegunn Ekroll Stokke

  • A recursive dynamic computable general equilibrium model.

    Diao XinShen;J. Thurlow;X. Diao;S. Benin

  • Can a water market avert the “double-whammy” of trade reform and lead to a “win–win” outcome?

    Xinshen Diao;Terry Roe

  • A General Equilibrium Analysis of Conjunctive Ground and Surface Water Use with an Application to Morocco

    Xinshen Diao;Ariel Dinar;Terry L. Roe;Yacov Tsur

  • The World Bank Economic Review 31 (2)

    Octavio Aburto-Oropeza;Heather M. Leslie;Austen Mack-Crane;Sriniketh Suryasesha Nagavarapu

Frequent Co-Authors

Terry L. Roe
Terry L. Roe University of Minnesota
Margaret S. McMillan
Margaret S. McMillan Tufts University
James Thurlow
James Thurlow International Food Policy Research Institute
Liangzhi You
Liangzhi You International Food Policy Research Institute
Yacov Tsur
Yacov Tsur Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Paul A. Dorosh
Paul A. Dorosh International Food Policy Research Institute
Dani Rodrik
Dani Rodrik Harvard University
Mark W. Rosegrant
Mark W. Rosegrant International Food Policy Research Institute
Ariel Dinar
Ariel Dinar University of California, Riverside
Sherman Robinson
Sherman Robinson International Food Policy Research Institute

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