Notes on Contributors

Olufunke A. Alaba

is a researcher and lecturer at the Health Economics Division, University of Cape Town, South Africa. She holds a PhD in economics, and her major research focuses on applied microeconomics related to poverty, inequality, and health.

Samuel Kobina Annim

is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Cape Coast, Ghana. His areas of research concentration are microfinance/access to finance, poverty and inequality, and health outcomes. His publications can be found in academic journals such as World Development, Journal of Development Studies, and Journal of International Development. In addition, he consults for development partners and governments, both in Africa and South East Asia.

Channing Arndt

is a Senior Research Fellow at the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research—UNU-WIDER. He has substantial research management experience including leadership of interdisciplinary teams. His programme of research has focused on poverty alleviation and growth, agricultural development, market integration, gender and discrimination, the implications of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, technological change, trade policy, aid effectiveness, infrastructure investment, energy and biofuels, climate variability, and the economic implications of climate change.

Ulrik Beck

is a PhD student of economics at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He holds BA and MA degrees in economics from the University of Copenhagen and has been a visiting graduate student at Cornell University and UC-Berkeley. His research interests are development economics using applied microeconomics with a focus on agricultural issues and poverty measurement.

M. Azhar Hussain

is currently an Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, Denmark. His research and contributions to the literature have focused on statistical analysis of societal welfare measurement issues in both developed and developing countries.

Afeikhena T. Jerome

is currently engaged by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations at the Sub-Regional Office of Eastern Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He is also a Visiting Professor at Igbinedion University, Okada, Nigeria. As an accomplished development expert and practitioner, he has published widely on African development issues.

Sam Jones

is an Associate Professor of Development Economics at the University of Copenhagen. He has published widely on issues such as foreign aid, economic growth, contract farming, education quality, and tourism. A primary focus of his research is on sub-Saharan Africa. He worked for over seven years as an advisor to the Mozambican government in the Ministry of Planning and Finance and the Ministry of Planning and Development.

Raymond Elikplim Kofinti

is a graduate student at the Department of Economics, University of Cape Coast, Ghana. His research interests are in household welfare, economics of education, and microeconometric analysis of economic phenomena.

Vincent Leyaro

is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He was previously Associate Economics Affairs Officer at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in Addis Abba, Ethiopia. He completed a PhD in economics at the University of Nottingham, UK, in 2010. Leyaro has specialist research interests in trade, trade policy reforms, and regional integration; economic development and poverty analysis; labour markets analysis; household analysis and migration issues; and political economy, with a focus on governance issues and implications for natural resources.

Kristi Mahrt

is a consultant for the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER). Her research focuses on multidimensional and consumption poverty estimation.

Gibson Masumbu

is a Research Fellow at the Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis and Research, where he heads the Human Development Unit. He holds an MA in economic policy management from the University of Zambia. His research interests lie in the area of human development—particularly poverty analysis, employment and unemployment, rural development, and rural finance. His recent research work has been on topics such as youth labour-demand constraints, multidimensional poverty analysis, first-order dominance analysis of welfare, self-employment, energy poverty, and employment projection models.

Richard Mussa

is a Senior Lecturer in economics at Chancellor College, University of Malawi. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Cape Town. He has undertaken research on the Malawian economy with a particular focus on poverty and inequality, nutrition, technical efficiency of agricultural production, non-linear pricing in food markets, equity of healthcare finance, and youth unemployment and child labour.

Malokele Nanivazo

is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Kansas in the Department of Economics and consults for the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. Prior to joining the University of Kansas, she worked as a Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER in Helsinki. Her research focuses on gender, poverty, conflicts, growth, rural transformation, trade, and foreign aid.

Fiona Nattembo

, a Uganda national, has a Bachelor’s degree in statistics and Master’s degree in population and reproductive health, both from Makerere University, Uganda. She has worked at the Uganda Bureau of Statistics and is currently a research assistant at the International Food Policy Research Institute in the Kampala office. Her research interests are migration, poverty, and wellbeing.

Hina Nazli

is a Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute’s Pakistan Strategy Support Program. Her research focuses on poverty estimation, food and nutrition security, technology adoption in agriculture, and gender analysis. She has vast experience in conducting, managing, and analysing large-scale household surveys. She has presented her research at national and international conferences and has published widely in refereed journals.

Olanrewaju Olaniyan

is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He has experience in social policy work in developing countries. His areas of research focus on health economics, economics of education, welfare analysis, and social protection. He holds a PhD in economics from University of Ibadan.

Lars Peter Østerdal

is a Professor in the Department of Economics, Copenhagen Business School. His research is in health economics, fair allocation, game theory, and analysis of welfare, inequality, and poverty.

Karl Pauw

is a Research Fellow and Country Program Leader of the Malawi Strategy Support Program of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Lilongwe, Malawi. He holds a PhD from the University of Cape Town in South Africa. His broad area of interest is development and agricultural policy impact analysis, with a specific focus on better understanding the micro–macro interactions between policies and outcomes using economy-wide and micro-simulation modelling techniques.

Faly Rakotomanana

is Director of the Household Survey Unit at the National Statistical Institute (INSTAT) of Madagascar. His primary research interests are related to poverty and labour markets.

Tiaray Razafimanantena

is a Lead Economist at the Centre de Recherches, d’Etudes et d’Appui l’Analyse Economique Madagascar (CREAM), and a lecturer at the University of Antananarivo. He was previously Director of the Household Survey Unit at the National Statistical Institute (INSTAT) of Madagascar. His primary research interests are related to poverty, labour markets, and inflation.

Vincenzo Salvucci

is a UNU-WIDER Research Fellow (since March 2016), currently working as resident adviser at the Directorate of Economic and Financial Studies (DEEF) of the Ministry of Economics and Finance in Maputo, Mozambique. His research interests focus on poverty analysis in developing countries. He has explored issues related to poverty, inequality, and child malnutrition, mainly using micro data for Mozambique.

Haruna Sekabira

has a Master’s degree in agricultural and applied economics from Makerere University in Uganda, and is currently a research assistant and PhD student at the University Goettingen. A Ugandan national, his main research is on smallholder participation in modern supply chains and impacts on income, poverty, and development.

Nikolaj Siersbæk

is a PhD student in the Department of Business and Economics and the Centre of Health Economics Research (COHERE), University of Southern Denmark. His research is in applied econometrics, welfare analyses, health economics, and housing economics.

Kenneth Simler

is currently Senior Economist at the World Bank and based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He received his PhD degree from Cornell University. He has published widely in the analysis of poverty and wellbeing in developing countries.

David Stifel

is a Professor of Economics at Lafayette College and Chair of the Lafayette International Affairs Program. His primary research interests are poverty measurement and analysis, rural infrastructure and markets, and agriculture and rural livelihoods.

Finn Tarp

is Director of UNU-WIDER and Coordinator of the Development Economics Research Group (DERG) at the University of Copenhagen. He is a leading international expert on issues of development strategy and foreign aid, with a sustained interest in poverty, income distribution, and growth. He has published widely in international academic journals alongside various books. He is a member of the World Bank Chief Economist’s Council of Eminent Persons and is a resource person of the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC).

Bjorn Van Campenhout

, a Belgian national, is a Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute based in Kampala, Uganda. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Leuven, Belgium. Bjorn’s main areas of interest are smallholder market participation, commodity market integration, and poverty dynamics.

Edward Whitney

is a former research analyst at IFPRI and a current PhD student in the Agriculture and Resource Economics programme at the University of California, Davis. He received his Master of Arts in International Development from the American University in 2012. His previous work includes extensive analysis of poverty in Pakistan, a targeting evaluation of a programme in Malawi, and a replication of a previous impact evaluation study.

Tassew Woldehanna

is an Associate Professor of Economics at Addis Ababa University. He is a development economist whose primary research interests are food security, employment, child welfare and poverty, education, and health.