What is RePEc?

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (http://repec.org)is a volunteer-driven initiative to create a public-access database that promotes scholarly communication in economics and related disciplines. RePEc  collaborates with the American Economic Association's EconLit database to provide content.

The database contains information on more than 610,000 items:

• 12,700 individual professionals (their contact information and associated publications)
• 10,250 institutions (economics departments, research institutes, and governmental organizations)
• bibliographic information on 245,000 working papers published by institutions and individuals
• bibliographic citations for 359,000 from the leading journals in the discipline
• bibliographic citations for 3,200 books and chapters
• 1,600 software descriptions and programs
• of which more than 500,000 items are available on line

IFPRI in RePEc

IFPRI Library contributes to RePEc all the publications, and documents that have been entered to the Library database where IFPRI is the publishing house. 

• IFPRI contributions http://edirc.repec.org/data/ifprius.html. 
• IFPRI authors that have signed to the service http://edirc.repec.org/data/ifprius.html#HoPEc.

• IFPRI authors publications for those that have signed in  http://ideas.repec.org/d/ifprius.html 

   

    

How to search

RePEc is easier to search through:

The EconPapers interface http://econpapers.repec.org/

IDEAS http://ideas.repec.org/

Google    http://www.google.com/

Search examples:

"public spending" growth Egypt http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&q=%22public+spending%22+growth+egypt&btnG=Google+Search

"access to infrastructure"africa

To find information about a paper

Village inequality in Western China: implications for development strategy in lagging regions

http://ideas.repec.org/p/fpr/dsgddp/31.html

Marketing underutilized plant species for the benefit of the poor: a conceptual framework

http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&q=Marketing+underutilized+plant+species+&btnG=Google+Search

How RePEc works

RePEc is a decentralized archive. IFPRI Library and Knowledge Management contributes and maintains maintains IFPRI's archive of bibliographic text files describing each item we publish in RePEc. These are reformulations of the material already presented on IFPRI's publications webpage http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/pubs_menu.asp. 

The RePEc author service

The RePEc Author Service http://authors.repec.org/ aims to link economists with their research output in the RePEc bibliographic database. This means:

• Contact details of an author can be traced, even after he/she moves.
• A research profile is built, showing all identified works.
• Author profile can be found through the description of any work the author claimed as his/hers.
• It becomes possible to distinguish the works of homonyms.
• The author obtains regular statistics about downloads and citations.
• The collected data is used for various rankings in Economics and Finance.

 Examples from IFPRI researchers

• Shenggen Fan: http://ideas.repec.org/cgi-bin/rank.cgi?pfa13&tYte
• Mark Rosegrant: http://ideas.repec.org/cgi-bin/rank.cgi?pro342&uYPZ

How do I register?

Register online at http://authors.repec.org/new-user. Here you will create a profile and an account in the system. Once your profile has been created you will:

• be able to begin identifying works authored by you and adding them to your profile
• receive a monthly mailing, which includes statistics on downloads and abstract views of the author’s works as well as some citation analysis