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Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute for the Study of International Development at McGill University. My research expertise covers many aspects of applied microeconomic analysis in economic development. Specifically, my current and recent work has focused on two broad research areas: decision-making under uncertainty (namely concerning technology adoption among subsistence farmers) and the micro-economic effects of social policies and conditions (in the area of education, health and labour markets), with a focus on women. I have conducted research in Peru, Kenya and in the Caribbean, using laboratory experiments, surveys or randomized controlled trials.
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Shreyashi Dasgupta is the Jawaharlal Nehru Cambridge PhD scholar at the Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge. She also supervises undergraduates in the Department of Geography at Cambridge. Her current work concerns the transitory spaces in urban housing and examines the emerging forms and processes of temporary accommodation for low-income workers in Dhaka (Bangladesh) and Mumbai (India). She has co-founded the Cambridge Urbanism in the Global South interdisciplinary working group. Prior to her PhD, Shreyashi has worked on a wide range of developmental issues for the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat, Observer Research Foundation, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action and Research (PUKAR), BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD) that centred on water and sanitation, housing, land-use, spatial planning and urban governance in India and Bangladesh.
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Arijit Nandi is an Associate Professor jointly appointed at the McGill Institute for Health and Social Policy and the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health. An epidemiologist by training, Arijit is broadly interested in the impact of public policies on population health and health inequalities. He Nandi holds a Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy of Global Health.
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Jo L. Husbands is a Scholar with the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, where her work focuses on issues related to science, technology, and security. She also represents the Academies on the Biosecurity Working Group of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP), a network of over 130 national and regional academies of sciences and health. From 1991-2005 she was Director of the Academies’ Committee on International Security and Arms Control and its Working Group on Biological Weapons Control. From 2001-2012 Dr. Husbands was an adjunct professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. She is a Fellow of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, an inaugural member of the Advisory Board on Education and Outreach of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, and a member of the editorial board of Politics and the Life Sciences. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Minnesota and a Masters in International Public Policy (International Economics) from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
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Profession: Development Economics
Institute: Addis Ababa University
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I am Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Concordia University and hold a Ph.D. in Political Science from York University (2007). I am founding Director of the Lab for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LLACS), Board Member of the Montreal Network of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (RÉLAM), and member of the Interuniversity Research Team on Inclusion and Governance in Latin America (ÉRIGAL). While my training is in comparative politics, my work is multidisciplinary, situated at the intersections of political science, sociology, geography, and anthropology. My research interests lie in urban and grassroots informal politics and my projects focus on clientelism, violence, and resilience in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Franque Grimard is an Associate Professor of the Department of Economics at McGill University. He has been teaching Economic Development at the B.A. Master’s and Ph.D. levels for the last 20 years. His research specialties are Development and Health Economics, where he is interested in the application of statistical analysis and data collection to applied policy issues such as poverty and social protection, health, gender empowerment, public finance management, corporate social responsibility and extractive industries, and sustainable development. Professor Grimard’s research on health focuses on the social-economic determinants of health. In particular, it analyses the long-term impact of shocks for the health of individuals and the cost effectiveness of health programs to improve the living standards of poor women in Peru. His health work has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine and in the Journal of Health Economics.
His work on economic development has been published in the Journal of Development Economics, World Development, Economic Development and Cultural Change, the Review of Development Economics and Ecological Economics. His current research projects look at the impact of cash transfer programs on women’s empowerment in Tanzania, on the availability of quality daycare on women’s empowerment in urban slums of Kenya and at the impact of extractive industries on the standard of living of individuals in Panama.
In terms of consulting, he has worked on evaluations of programs and projects of organizations such as CARE, the World Bank, the Canadian International Development Agency (now Global Affairs Canada (GAC)), DANIDA, CARE, IDRC, Health Canada, the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, the Public Health Agency of Canada.
Finally, Professor Grimard is also the president of the Canadian Development Economics Study Group (CDESG). Operating with an IDRC grant, CDESG is the main research group on development economics in Canada organizing policy panels in the area of development economics, sponsoring developing country scholars to come to CDESG conferences to present their work, building a community of researchers in Canada and abroad to produce research and applied policy in development economics for policy makers in Canada and in developing countries.
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Former member of Red Cross rescue team, founder of charity organization, now UNICEF assistant
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I am mostly focused on the analysis of urban movements and activism. In addition, I am interested in participatory processes about urban planning. Other topics under the umbrella of urban sociology and urban politics, such as housing policies, socio-spatial segregation, use of public spaces, sustainable mobility, local governance and gentrification, are part of my research work as well. More broadly, social movements, political sociology and qualitative methods, too.
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I work as an Associate Professor of Management and Organisation Studies at the School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. My research focuses mainly on the role of knowledge and technology in the construction of similarity and difference in organizing. I am currently studying the organizing processes unfolding as part of the work of integrating recent refugees and other immigrants to Sweden into the labour market and society. I am interested above all in the consequences of various organizing practices for the persons targeted as well as for other persons, groups and organizations involved. I am also an Associate Editor of the European Management Journal.