Established in 2008, the Evans School Policy Analysis and Research Group (EPAR) uses an innovative student-faculty team model to provide rigorous, applied research and analysis to international development stakeholders. EPAR has prepared more than 300 technical reports and briefs including: statistical data analysis and research, literature reviews and analysis, and portfolio analysis and strategy support. Our reports focus on agriculture, development policy, financial services, poverty reduction, gender, and measurement and evaluation.
Click on the links below to learn more about recent EPAR research and to explore EPAR’s research in sustainable agriculture and rural livelihoods, household well-being and equity, development finance and policy, and technology, or follow the links above to learn more about EPAR, access research resources, explore interactive data visualizations, and read recent blog posts.
Agricultural Development Indicator Curation
EPAR has constructed of a set of agricultural development indicators using data from the Living Standards Measurement Study – Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) for Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Tanzania.
Digital Finances
EPAR reviewed the 2016 10-K forms submitted by U.S. pharmaceutical companies involved in global health to analyze how these companies discuss the incentives and challenges to private sector global health investment.
Visit Our Github
EPAR hosts code, compiled datasets and agriculture development indicators from the LSMS-ISA and other related datasets.
Browse Ag Query
Check out AgQuery, EPAR’s initiative to make agriculture data easily accessible.
Climate Change
How are climate shocks affecting smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia? Read more about our research on staple crops in the region.
Gender
How is climate change affecting women differently? How do the gendered effects of climate change vary spatially?