bahta yonas

I am an astute National Research Foundation (NRF) rated researcher ("C2 rating") with over 28 years of experience working for academic, government, national, and international organizations. I have a PhD, a Master's with distinction, Honors, and a first degree in Agricultural Economics. I am currently employed as a Full Professor at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa. As a senior researcher and lecturer, I teach classes and supervise undergraduate, master`s, and PhD students. Research methodology is one of the topics on which I concentrate and lecture. As a researcher and consultant, I work with international and local organizations as project leader and principal investigator, project team, contribute to publications in various fields of Agricultural Economics, and am actively involved in the writing of research proposals for funding. I have a strong background in economic research and analysis, as well as econometrics, mathematical modeling, trade and trend analysis, statistical analysis, economic and socioeconomic analysis, value chain analysis and price analysis, and forecasting.

In addition, I am an applied development economist who is interested in modeling (SAM-CGE,  I-O, Econometrics), saving mobilization, food security, monitoring and evaluation, marketing, macroeconomics, policy analysis, finance, and development issues. I`ve published over 78 peer-reviewed journal articles, three chapters in a book, ten conference proceeding publications,  25 popular articles (in a non-technical language as part of community engagements), two Working and Discussion papers/reports, presented at a number of international and national conferences, reviewed in high impact and Q1 and Q2 journals, reviewed projects and ratings, and supervised over 35 postgraduate students (MSc and PhD altogether) and 18 them completed their studies.

I have excellent quantitative and qualitative skills. I also have good knowledge of recent econometric software programs available in the market, including GAMS, Stata, SPSS, SAS, NCSS, E-views, Micro-fit, and others. I also have a deep knowledge of modeling related to SAM, the I-O model, CGE (Computable General Equilibrium model), and others.