Our funders at @ifpri.org are becoming interested in showing returns on investment in research are positive. In a new paper, Maria DiGiovanni and I show conditions necessary to measure RoI, and estimate them with examples from @gatesfoundation.bsky.social funded research hdl.handle.net/10568/185876
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Returns to investment in selected IFPRI research
Funders and governments increasingly demand evidence of the returns on investment (ROI) of agri-food systems research, but many research benefits are difficult to quantify. This paper describes method...