Kalle Hirvonen

Research Fellow

Kalle Hirvonen is a Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, seconded from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Through his research, Kalle seeks to understand how to sustainably improve nutrition and food security outcomes in low-income countries. Thematically, this work sits at the intersection of development, health, and agricultural economics. He has done extensive work in areas of social protection, food security, nutrition, food value chains and food markets. Most of Kalle’s research focuses on Ethiopia and is based on statistical analyses of primary data from large-scale household surveys.

Kalle has published nearly 40 peer-reviewed articles in international journals, including top field journals such as the Journal of Development Economics and American Journal of Agricultural Economics as well as high-impact biomedical journals such as the Lancet Global Health and JAMA Pediatrics. His research has been widely cited by other scholars as well as leading media outlets, including the Economist, New York Times, Reuters, and the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE).

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Phone +358-(0)9-615 9911

Email kalle@wider.unu.edu

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    Working Paper
    The role of social assistance in African crises: a systematic literature review

    This systematic review examines the effectiveness of social assistance programmes in protecting households in Africa—a region highly vulnerable to climate change, conflict, and other shocks—during periods of crisis. Despite the significant increase...

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    Can social assistance reduce violent conflict and civil unrest?

    We assess how one of the largest public works programmes in the world—Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP)—affected violent conflict and civil unrest. Using difference-in-differences methods and linking administrative and geocoded...

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    Securing food, building livelihoods?

    We assess the impact of a large-scale social protection intervention, Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP), over a 15-year period. We find that the PSNP had a positive impact on food security but inconsistent impacts on assets. There...

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    Measuring consumption over the phone

    The paucity of reliable, timely household consumption data in many low- and middle-income countries has made it difficult to assess how global poverty has evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic. Standard poverty measurement requires collecting...

    In the media
    UNU-WIDER experts and the WIDER Development Conference featured in the media

    Kalle Hirvonen, Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, was interviewed by YLE for a news article published on 10 March 2022 on the effects of the Ukraine war on global food security. ‘The war in Ukraine is causing a major supply shock to the world food market...

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    A food crisis was brewing even before the Ukraine war – but taking these three steps could help the most vulnerable

    Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led to the disruption, by sanctions or war, of two of the world’s largest grain exporters. This means 2022 is shaping...

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    Linking taxation and social protection

    The reduction of poverty, and more recently inequality, are pressing concerns in many low- and middle-income countries, not in the least as a result of the Sustainable Development Goals committing countries to significant improvements by 2030...

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