- Graduate Institute of International and Development

Jean-Louis Arcand
International Economics Section
Pavillon Rigot (RI32)
11A, avenue de la Paix
1202 Geneva, Switzerland
Office tel: + 41 22 9085945
Office fax: + 41 22 7333049
Cell: + 33 6 85402955 or + 41 76 4233616
email: [email protected]
Born: Ebolowa, Cameroon, 4 October 1964
Nationality: Canadian
Languages: English (fluent), French (fluent), Italian (fluent), Portuguese (intermediate), Spanish (intermediate), Arabic (introductory).
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Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA: Ph. D. in Economics, 1991. Thesis title:
"Three Essays in the Microeconomics of Development"; thesis advisors: Richard Eckaus, Peter Temin. Third
reader: Paul Krugman. Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK: M. Phil. in Economics, 1986. Swarthmore
College, Swarthmore, PA, USA: B. A. in Economics and Political Science, High Honors, 1985.
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Areas of specialization
Development economics, impact evaluation, decentralized development, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Near
East, applied microeconometrics, empirics of civil war, applied contract theory, nutrition and health, empirical
analysis of economic growth, applications of non-expected-utility models of decisionmaking under uncertainty.
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Professional experience
• 2008- ... : Professor of International Economics, Professor and Chair (since 2009) of Development
Studies, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
• 1997-2008: Professor of Economics, Centre d’études et de recherches sur le développement international
(CERDI), Université d’Auvergne, Clermont Ferrand, France.
• 1996-2000: associate professor, Department of Economics and CRDE, Université de Montréal (assistant
professor, 1991-1996).
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Editorial activities and other
• Co-Editor, European Journal of Development Research (2009-...); Associate Editor, Journal of African
Economies (2002-2009); Associate Editor, Revue d’économie du développement (2002-...).
• Member of the Conseil scientifique of the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD, 20042008). Listed in: Who’s Who in the World 2003, 2004, Who’s Who of Professionals, 2004. Founding
Fellow, European Union Development Network (EUDN).
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Publications
5.1
Refereed journals
1. "Matching in Community-Based Organizations," accepted for publication (March 2011) in the Journal
of Development Economics (with M. Fafchamps).
2. "Teacher Training and HIV/AIDS Prevention in West Africa: Regression Discontinuity Design Evidence
from the Cameroon," Health Economics 19, 2010, 36-54 (with E. Djimeu Wouabe).
3. "Santé et Salaires : Une Estimation en Variables Instrumentales sur un Panel de Travailleurs Chinois,"
Economie et Prévision, 186(5). 2009, 89-100 (with K. Labar).
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4. "Deforestation and the Real Exchange Rate," Journal of Development Economics, 86(2), 2008, 242-262
(with P. Guillaumont and S. Guillaumont Jeanneney).
5. "Moral Hazard and Marshallian Efficiency: Evidence from Tunisia," Journal of Development Economics,
83(2), 2007, 411-445 (with C. Ai and F. Ethier).
6. "Tax Compliance under Rank Dependant Expected Utility," The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review
(with G. Rota-Graziosi), 30(1), 2005, 57-69.
7. "Rendement de l’Education et Choix des Instruments. Application sur Données vietnamiennes," Revue
Economique, 56(3), 2005, 563-572 (with B. d’Hombres and P. Gyselinck).
8. "Racial Discrimination in the Brazilian Labour Market: Wage, Employment and Segregation Effects,"
Journal of International Development (with B. d’Hombres), 16(8), 2004, 1053-1066.
9. "Undernourishment and Economic Growth. The Efficiency Cost of Hunger," FAO Economic and Social
Development Paper No. 147, 2001, 60 pages (FAO of the United Nations, Rome, Italy).
10. "How to Make a Tragedy: On the Alleged Effect of Ethnicity on Growth," Journal of International
Development (with P. Guillaumont and S. Guillaumont Jeanneney), 12(7), 2000, 925-938.
11. "Growth and Social Custom: Why Culture Matters," Nexos Econômicos, 1(2) 1999, 69-94.
12. Co-editor of the special issue of the Revue d’Économie du Développement, entitled "La Microéconomie
du Développement: Résultats Empiriques et Théories," 1997. Editorial introduction entitled: "Microéconomie du développement: Quo vadis?," Revue d’Économie du Développement (with E. Sadoulet) 2,
1997, 5-13.
13. "De l’efficacité allocative des contrats agricoles: Cheung avait-il raison?," Revue d’Économie du Développement (with C. Ai and F. Ethier) 2, 1997, 103-127.
14. "Inefficacité marshallienne, partage de coûts, et modèles contractuels avec marchés manquants: résultats
empiriques tunisiens," L’Actualité Économique, (with C. Ai and F. Ethier) 74(3), 1998, 315-341.
15. "Dotations en Facteurs, Relations Contractuelles, et Croissance" Revue d’Économie du Développement,
(with G. Boulila) 3, 1995, 25-39.
16. "Development Economics and Language: The Earnest Search for a Mirage," International Journal of
the Sociology of Language, 121(7), 1996, 119-157.
17. "Land Ownership, Working Capital, and Agricultural Output: Egypt, 1913-1958," Journal of African
Economies 5(1), 1996, 92-158.
18. "Disequilibrium Dynamics during the Great Depression," Journal of Macroeconomics (with E. Brezis)
15(3), 1993, 553-589.
19. "Structural Imbalances in Canadian Labour Markets," Journal of Income Distribution (with S. Gera and
S. S. Rahman) 3(2), 1993, 231-262.
20. "The Future Monitoring Role of GATT in an International Arena of Non-Tariff Barriers: A Proposal
from a Law and Economics Perspective," Dickinson Journal of International Law (with A. Blanar) 7(3),
1989, 301-317.
5.2
Book chapters
1. "Language in Economic Development: Is English Special and Is Linguistic Fragmentation Bad?" (with
F. Grin) forthcoming in English and International Development, E. J. Erling and P. Seargeant, eds.,
Multilingual Matters/Channel View Publications, Bristol, UK.
2. "Decentralization, Local Governance, and Rural Development," in Agriculture and Development: Berlin
Workshop Series 2008, edited by G. Kochendorfer-Lucius and B. Pleskovic (Washington, DC: The World
Bank).
3. "Capital humain et croissance" (with P. Guillaumont and S. Guillaumont Jeanneney), and "Capital
humain, productivité agricole, et travail féminin: variables latentes et séparabilité dans les modèles
de ménage" (with C. Araujo and C. Araujo-Bonjean), AUPELF-UREF, Réseau analyse économique et
développement, quatrièmes journées scientifiques (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, January 1999). Collection Universités Francophones.
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4. "Unemployment and Job Vacancies: Matching People and Jobs," Chapter 4 (pp. 53-63) in Gera, S.,
ed., Canadian Unemployment: Lessons from the 80s and Challenges for the 90s (with S. Gera and
S. S. Rahman) (Ottawa: Minister of Supply and Services, 1991); also available in French under the
title: "Chômage et postes vacants: faire correspondre les travailleurs et les emplois" in Le Chômage au
Canada, pp. 55-66).
5.3
Working papers
• "Pessimism, Optimism, and Credit Rationing," revise and resubmit at Mathematics and Financial Economics.
• "Macrostructure and microstructure: Evidence from overlapping village networks in The Gambia," revise
and resubmit at Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences (Elsevier) (with D. Jaimovich).
• "Landmines," (with A.-S. Rodella Boitreau and M. Rieger), under submission at World Development.
• "Parental Height and the Sex Ratio," under submission at Journal of Theoretical Biology (with M.
Rieger).
• "HIV/AIDS sensitization, social mobilization and peer-mentoring: Evidence from a randomized experiment in Senegal," shortly under submission at The Lancet (with P. A. Diallo, C. Sakho and N. Wagner).
• "The Making of a President: Political Party, Ethnicity, or Village," (with L. Bassole and J.-P. Tranchant).
• "Does Community-Driven Development Work? Evidence from Senegal," (with L. Bassole).
• "Weak Governments and Trade Agreements," (with M. Olarreaga and L. Zoratto).
• "How effective are social programs during conflicts? Evidence from the Angolan civil war," (with E.
Djimeu Wouabe).
• "Essential Heterogeneity in the impact of Community-Driven Development," (with L. Bassole).
• "Community-driven development and the law of 1/n," (with J. Labonne and S. Mbaye)
• "Conflict, Ideology and Foreign Aid," CERDI Working Paper No. 201021 (with A. Bah and J. Labonne).
• "Who Would Benefit from Simplifying the Tax Code? Frank Knight and Gustave Choquet Meet the
Internal Revenue Service," (with K. Bloomquist and G. Rota-Graziosi).
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Reports for national and international organizations
• "The Gambia Community Driven Development Program Baseline: Rural Household Survey, Qualitative
Survey, Village Network Survey," prepared for the Gambia CDDP, March 2010, 162 pages.
• "Rapport d’évaluation AERES du Lare-EFI (Université Montesquieu de Bordeaux)," November 2009, 10
pages.
• "Situation de référence de l’évaluation d’impact de l’INDH," prepared for the Observatoire National pour
le Développement Humain, Prime Minister’s office (Primature), Kingdom of Morocco, October 2009,
25 pages.
• "Concept Note for the Impact Evaluation of Performance Based Contracting for Voluntary Testing in
Burundi," World Bank and SEP-CNLS, Bujumbura, July 2009, 10 pages.
• "Vulnerable groups in the conflict trap: Results of a field trip to Haiti. Prepared for the European Commission, Seventh Framework Programme, Project ATLAS, Armed Conflicts, Peacekeeping, Transitional
Justice: Law as Solution," June 2009, 30 pages.
• "Rapport d’évaluation AERES du CEMI (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)," March 2009,
10 pages.
• "Etude de faisabilité pour l’Evaluation d’Impact de l’Initiative Nationale pour le Développement Humain," prepared for the Observatoire National pour le Développement Humain, Prime Minister’s office
(Primature), Kingdom of Morocco, October 2007, 61 pages.
• "The FAS III Baseline Survey: Preliminary Findings," prepared for the Ministerio do Planeamento,
Governo de Angola, September 2007, 47 pages.
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• "Trade Policy and Undernourishment: Evidence from Panel Data," prepared for the FAO of the United
Nations, November 2004, 69 pages.
• "Organisations Paysannes et Développement Rural au Burkina Faso", prepared for the Norwegian Trust
Fund for Environmentally and Socially Responsible Development, January 2004, 103 pages.
• "Undernourishment, Female Literacy, Foreign Aid and Civil war," prepared for the FAO of the United
Nations, January 2002, 69 pages.
• "Croissance endogène et développement: perspectives pour la Tunisie," Les Cahiers de l’IEQ, (with G.
Boulila) Institut d’Economie Quantitative, Tunis, 1996, 56 pages.
• "Structural Imbalances in Canadian Labour Markets," Economic Council of Canada, Working Paper
No. 18, (Ottawa: Ministry of Supply and Services, 1991), also available in French under the title: "Les
déséquilibres structurels sur les marchés du travail au Canada" (with S. Gera et S.S. Rahman), 61 pages.
• "Reducing Canada’s Unemployment: Can Profit-Sharing Help?" (Ottawa: Economic Council of Canada,
1987), 74 pages.
5.5
5.5.1
Media exposure
Television and radio
TSR, Infrarouge, programme on Haiti earthquake, January 2010. TSR, Programme TTC, program on emergency aid following the Haiti earthquake, January 2010. RSR, program on floods in Burkina Faso, February
2010. RSR, Babylone, September 2010. Several interviews on Radio Cité on Haiti earthquake and Barack
Obama’s speach at the United Nations on the MDGs.
5.5.2
Print media
• Numerous articles and interviews in various Swiss, Italian, French and Brazilian newspapers, as well as
in the Graduate Institute’s magazine Globe.
• "No Magnet for Investment -Yet," Denaris (Swiss Association of Asset Managers, SAAM), 3:10-14,
http://vsv.inettools.ch/upload/dokumente/denaris_10_3.pdf.
• My empirical work on undernourishment and economic growth was widely featured in a number of
newspapers. Representative examples in the French press include: "Le cycle infernal de la faim," Le
Figaro, 6 November 2001, "La faim coûte 1% à 2% de croissance par habitant à l’Afrique subsaharienne,"
Le Monde, 23 October 2001, "Les calories de la croissance," Le Point, 16 November 2001. A full-page
article on my work on economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa in the "Grandes Interview" series in Le
Figaro appeared on 23 July 2002.
• "Le partenariat privé-public: un instrument précieux," La Presse (Montréal), 5 June 1996, p. B3.
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Funded research projects
During the past 15 academic years, I have been awarded approximately $ 2,000,000 in academic research
funding
• Principal Investigator: "Plateformes Multifonctionnelles (PTF) impact evaluation: Burkina Faso, Mali,
Senegal." Research Budget for 2009-2001: 990,000$. Source of funding: Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation. Baseline surveys: April 2009, follow up in April 2011.
• Principal Investigator: "Impact evaluation of social mobilization for HIV/AIDS prevention through peermentoring," World Bank and CNLS Senegal, 2009.
• Principal Investigator: "Evaluation d’impact de l’autosuffisance et des stratégies et moyens de subsistance
des réfugiés centrafricains et de la population hôte dans le département Tchadien de Nya Pende." 81,400
euro, funded by CARE Canada, 2010.
• Principal Investigator: "Gambia CDD impact evaluation." Republic of the Gambia. World Bank
research Budget for 2008-2009: 116,000$ + 48,000$ for network-theoretic analysis. Baseline surveys
completed in November 2008, follow-up in 2011.
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• Principal Investigator: "Impact analysis of the Initiative Nationale pour le Développement Humain
(INDH)," Kingdom of Morocco. Observatoire National pour le Développement Humain; baseline
surveys completed in February 2009, follow-up in 2011. Research Budget: 440,000$.
• Principal Investigator: "Impact analysis of HIV/AIDS teacher training in the Cameroon. Research budget for 2007-2009: $132,000. Funding provided by the Global Development Network (GDN) through its
global competition on "Promoting Innovative Programs from the Developing World: Towards Realizing
the Health MDGs in Africa and Asia". Surveys carried out in December 2007-January 2008.
• Principal Investigator: "Impact analysis of the Fundo de Apoio Social (FAS III), Angola." Research
budget for 2006-2007: 58,000$. Surveys carried out in March-February 2007.
• Principal Investigator: "Impact analysis of the National Rural Infrastructure Project (PNIR) in Senegal."
Joint work with the Université Gaston Berger of Saint Louis, Senegal; budget for 2002-2005: $110,000.
• Co-investigator (with Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet, University of California at Berkeley):
"An impact analysis of capacity building of producer organizations in Burkina Faso and in Senegal";
funding agency: World Bank, total budget of $205,000, 2001-2003. Research budget for the PSAOP
II: 125,000$.
• Principal Investigator: "The contractual organization of an LDC village: the case of El Oulja (Tunisia)";
funding agency: Québec provincial government, Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l’Aide à la
Recherche (FCAR), 47,000$ for 1996-1998.
• Principal Investigator: "Rural institutions and development policies"; funding agency: Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), PARADI program: 42,000$ for 1996-1998, 41,400$ for 1995-1996,
33,540$ for 1994-1995, 33,885$ for 1993-1994, 25,840$ for 1991-1993.
• Co-investigator (with Claude Montmarquette): "International migration, remittances and probability of
return: the case of Morocco"; funding agency: Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA),
PARADI program, 22,600$, 1995-1996.
• Co-investigator (with Marcel Dagenais): "Estimation and testing in regression models with errors in the
variables: applications to LDCs"; funding agency: Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA),
PARADI program, 20,000$ for 1995-1996, 11,000$ for 1994-1995, 12,988$ for 1993-1994.
• Principal Investigator: "Economic development and the distribution of landownership"; funding agency:
CAFIR (internal Université de Montréal funds), 6,000$, 1993-1994.
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Consulting experience
World Bank, Senegal, CNLS, 2009-...; World Bank, Burundi SEP-CNLS, 2009-...; World Bank, PSAOP Senegal, 2007-2010; World Bank, Angola Social Fund, 2006-...; National Rural Infrastructure Program, Senegal,
2002-2005; World Bank, producer organizations in Burkina Faso and Senegal (CPCE-OP and PSAOP), 20012004; Government of Morocco, Rabat, Kingdom of Morocco (Initiative Nationale du Développement Humain,
2007-2012); Swedish International Development Agency, Stockholm, Sweden (External evaluation of SIDA’s
West Africa strategy, 2007); FAO of the United Nations, Rome, Italy (Commodities Division: foreign trade
and food security, 2003-2004; ESA Division: determinants of undernourishment, impact of undernourishment
on outbreak of civil war, 2001-2002; ESA Division: undernourishment and economic growth, 1999-2000);
Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil ("municipalization" of the Brazilian healthcare system;
1997-1999); CRC-Sogema, Longueil, Québec (Social dimensions of structural adjustment, poverty alleviation,
informal sector, Senegal, 1996); Forum Communications, Montréal, Québec (Privatization of water resources,
1996); Department of Human Resources, Government of Canada (Interprovincial barriers to labor mobility,
1995); Institut d’Économie Quantitative, Tunis, Tunisia (Growth potential of Tunisian economy, 1994-1995);
Ministry of Fisheries and Oceans, Government of Canada (Reform of unemployment insurance, 1994); Economic Council of Canada, Government of Canada (labor market group, 1985-87).
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Administrative duties and executive education
8.1
8.1.1
2008-2011: The Graduate Institute, Geneva
Administrative
• Institute-wide: Academic committee; Publications committee; Doctoral program reform committee;
Creation of a new PhD program in Development Economics (beginning in fall 2011); Ad hoc group
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on the reform of interdisciplinary masters programs; new Masters in Development Studies program
(starting in fall 2011). Hiring committees: Environmental politics (2009), International public health
(2009, 2010); International macroeconomics (2010); Development microeconomics (2009, 2010); Pictet
Chair in finance and development (2010).
• Center on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding: Steering Committee.
• Development Studies: Department Chair (2009-...), MDEV admissions committee (2010, 2011), DODEV admissions committee (2010), MDEV-DODEV scholarship committee (2010, 2011), Sustainable
Development track in the MDEV (2010).
8.1.2
Executive education
Thunderbird School of Global Management Global political economy II, EMBA XIX, November 2009.
Global political economy II, EMBA Europe, February 2010. Global economics, EMBA Europe, November
2010.
Degree programmes International Executive Master in Development Studies (IMAS), Introduction to the
World Bank and the IMF and Introduction to impact evaluation, Bamako, September 2009 and September
2010. Executive Master in International Negotiation and Policy-Making (INP), Analysis of global governance,
International Economics Fundamentals, November 2010.
Short programmes Summer Programme on the WTO, International Trade and Development, Development
and Trade in Manufacturing, Agriculture and Services, Trade, Economic Growth, and Development, July 2009
and July 2010. Gestion stratégique de projets de développement, Module 3: Introduction aux techniques
d’évaluation d’impact de projets de développement, November 2010.
Tailor-made programmes and other Centre for International Governance, New Challenges in Multilateral
Governance, presenter (2 sessions), May 2010. Adapting to Climate Change Institutions for Climate Knowledge
Governance: Building on WCC-3, panelist, June 2010. Centre for International Governance, Nestlé Creating
Shared Value Forum Series, panelist, November 2010. Global Health Program, Third High-Level Symposium
on Global Health Diplomacy: Negotiating Health in the 21st Century: Regional Voices in Global Health
Governance, panelist, November 2010.
8.2
8.2.1
1997-2008: CERDI-CNRS, Université d’Auvergne
Administrative
Member, Conseil scientifique restreint de l’Université d’Auvergne, 2001-2004, Member, Conseil de laboratoire,
1999-2008, Member, Comité des thèses, 2001-2008, Member, Commission des spécialistes, 2001-2008.
8.2.2
Executive education
Participation in the GPE program (Gestion des politiques économiques) at CERDI, aimed at mid-level civil
servants from developing countries and financed by the World Bank (Japanese Trust Fund). Responsability
for the "Poverty and Inequality," and "Impact evaluation" modules as well as a portion of the "Privatization
and Restructuring of State-Owned Enterprises" module, 1998-2008.
8.3
8.3.1
1991-1997: Department of Economics and CRDE, Université de Montréal
Administrative
Organizer of most of the development economics workshops/seminars at the C.R.D.E. for the period running
from 1991 through 1996. B. Sc. studies committee: recruitment of new students (1996-1997). Organizer of
the international symposium: "The Microeconomics of Development: Empirics and Theory," June 14th and
15th, 1996, in Val Morin, Québec. Financed by the PARADI program, through funding made available by the
Canadian International Development Agency.
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8.3.2
Executive education
Helped to create two C.R.D.E. courses offered to employees of the Canadian International Development Agency
(CIDA) on (i) structural adjustment and (ii) public finance in LDCs. My main responsibility was for the sections
dealing with public expenditure reviews and privatization in LDCs. Over a period of three years, we provided
courses to over 400 CIDA employees, in groups of 10-15 individuals at a time.
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Ph. D. students
9.1
In progress
I am currently supervising 17 PhD dissertations: 9 at the CERDI-CNRS, Université d’Auvergne, and 8 at the
Graduate Institute in Geneva.
9.1.1
The Graduate Institute, Geneva
1. Matteo Morgandi (since 2010)
2. Malek Garbouj (since 2010)
3. Marcio Cruz (since 2010)
4. Zacharias Ziegelhoffer (since 2010)
5. Anastasia Aladysheva (since 2009)
6. Matthias Rieger (since 2009)
7. Natascha Wagner (since 2008)
8. Dany Jaimovich (since 2007, expected to defend in 2011)
9.1.2
CERDI-CNRS, Université d’Auvergne
1. Linguère Mbaye (since 2007, expected to defend in 2011)
2. Adama Bah (since 2007, leave of absence 2010-11, expected to defend in 2012)
3. Frederic Aubery (since 2006, expected to defend in 2012)
4. Marie-Charlotte Buisson (since 2006, expected to defend in 2011)
5. Susana Carpio (since 2005, expected to defend in 2011)
6. Bara Niang (since 2005)
7. Dony El Costa (since 2005, expected to defend in 2011)
8. Damien Mededji (since 2002, "bourse par alternance" in Benin, expected to defend in 2011)
9. Paul Giselynck (since 2002, 3 year medical leave of absence, expected to defend in 2011)
9.2
Completed
17 PhD dissertations have been completed under my supervision since 1994: 3 at the Université de Montréal,
and 14 at the CERDI-CNRS, Université d’Auvergne.
9.2.1
CERDI-CNRS, Université d’Auvergne
1. D W
, Eric, "Essays on Civil War, HIV/AIDS, and Human capital in Sub-Saharan African
Countries." January 2011. Research Associate, IPA, Yale University.
2. T, Jean-Pierre, "Conflits civils et développement". December 2010. Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (UK) and the Institute for Human
Development (India).
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3. C, Stéphanie, "Choix rationnel, langage et représentations des inégalités et des discriminiations. Une étude des déclarations de couleurs de peau dans le Brésil contemporain." December 2010.
Researcher, CEPS/INSTEAD ("Centre d’Etudes de Populations, de Pauvreté et de Politiques SocioEconomiques / International Network for Studies in Technology, Environment, Alternatives, Development"), Unité Population et Emploi, Luxembourg.
4. R, Aude-Sophie, "Three Essays in the Applied Microeconomics of Conflict. The Impact of Landmines and War Violence on Social Capital, Socio-Economic Reintegration, Child Health and Household
Income in Angola." June 2010. Young Professional, The World Bank, Washington, DC, USA.
5. M
, Samba, "Nouvelles méthodes d’analyse du bien-être et moyens d’évaluation des programmes
de lutte contre la pauvreté en milieu rural sénégalaisl." January 2010. Maître Assistant Associé, UFR
Sciences économique et de gestion, Université Gaston Berger, Saint Louis, Senegal.
6. L
, Kelly, "Social inequalities in China : which reality ?". September 2007. Research Director,
Fondation pour les études et recherches en développement international (FERDI), Clermont Ferrand,
France.
7. B, Léandre, "Rural infrastructure, Community-Driven-Development and Child Anthropometrics". January 2007. Economist, African Development Bank, Tunis, Tunisia.
8. D, Oumar, "Trois essais sur la croissance, la pauvreté et les propriétés cycliques de la politique
budgétaire," (co-directed with Jean-Louis Combes), October 2006. Economist, UNDP, New York, USA.
9. B, Tanguy, "Three essays on Peasant Organizations in West Africa," (co-directed with Elisabeth
Sadoulet), May 2005. Economist, Agence Française de Développement (AFD), Paris, France.
10. ’H
, Béatrice, "Essais sur les disparités de revenu, l’éducation et la discrimination raciale :
analyses macroéconomique et microéconomique," December 2004. Economist, Joint Research Center
(JRC) of the European Commission, Ispra, Italy.
11. B, Aurélien, "Aléa moral, production agricole et profits: analyse théorique et quantification empirique," September 2004. Economist, World Bank, Bujumbura, Burundi.
12. F, Issa, "La micro-finance et le développement en Afrique sub-saharienne: le cas du Sénégal,"
September 2004. Economist, African Development Bank, Tunis, Tunisia.
13. B, Daniela, "La réforme du secteur agricole dans les pays en transition : résultats empiriques
pour la Moldavie," September 2003. Lecturer, Ecole Supérieure de Commerce, Clermont Ferrand,
France.
14. R
, Mbolatiana, "Contrat et technologie, le lien manquant," January 2001. Chargé de
Recherche, CEMAGREF, Bordeaux, France.
9.2.2
Université de Montréal
1. R
, Julie, "Emerging financial markets and growth," October 1998. Economist, CETECH,
Montréal, Canada.
2. T, Christian, "Bargaining and sharecropping in the presence of missing markets: theory and
empirical implications," June 1998. Researcher, FUNDP, Université de Namur, Belgium.
3. B, Ghazi, "Essays on the theory of growth: trading blocks, migration and contractual relations,"
June 1994. Professor, ESSEC, Tunis, Tunisia.
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10.1
Teaching
2008-2011: the Graduate Institute, Geneva
Graduate: Econometrics II and IIIB, Introduction to Development Economics (MDEV), Development Economics (MIS in International Economics), Impact Evaluation (MDEV).
10.2
1999-2008: CERDI-CNRS, Université d’Auvergne
Graduate (Magistère program in Development Economics): Microeconomic Theory sequence, first year.
Macroeconomic Theory sequence, first year. Agrarian Institutions and Household Models, third year. Industrial organization, second year. Impact Evaluation, third year.
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10.3
1991-1997: Université de Montréal
Graduate: Development Economics A and B, Special Topics in Development Economics. Undergraduate:
Introductory Microeconomics (first year B. Sc.), Development Economics (third year B. Sc.), Economics of
the Arab World (first year B. Sc.).
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11.1
Seminars and conferences, visiting professor positions, other presentations
Academic seminar and conference presentations
• "Landmines": Universidad de Navarra, Department of Economics, November 2010; Université Cheikh
Anta Diop, Dakar, March 2011.
• "Macrostructure and microstructure: Evidence from overlapping village networks in The Gambia": European Economics Association, Annual Meetings, Glasgow, August 2010.
• "How effective are social programs during conflicts? Evidence from the Angolan civil war": Global
Development Network (GDN) Conference, York, January 2009; Maison des Sciences Economiques,
Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, April 2009; Department of Statistics, University of Padova, April
2009; Brunel University conference on Development Economics in Africa, September 2009; CEMAFI,
Université de Nice, March 2010.
• "Households in a Time of War: Evidence from Angola": Institute of Political Science/University of
Zurich, Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS)/ETH Zurich, March 2009.
• "Do HIV-AIDS Teacher Training Programs Work? Instrumental Variables Results for the Cameroon"
and "Community Driven Development and Social Polarization in West Africa": Global Development
Network (GDN) Conference, York, January 2009.
• "The Making of a President: Political Party, Ethnicity, or Village?": Political Science Colloquium, The
Graduate Institute, Geneva, November 2008.
• "Essential Heterogeneity in the Impact of Community-Driven Development": Fudan University, Shanghai, October 2007; University of Shanghai, November 2007; Institute for Development Studies (IDS),
University of Sussex, November 2007.
• "Moral Hazard and Marshallian Inefficiency: Evidence from Tunisia": Department of economics, Université de Montréal (Labor Economics Workshop), Montréal, Québec, April 1995; PARADI Symposium on
the economics of development, Montréal, Québec, November 1995; XIth World Congress of the International Economic Association, Tunis, Tunisia, December 1995; Department of economics, University of
British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, January 1996; Department of economics, Simon Fraser
University, Burnaby, British Columbia, January 1996; CERDI, Université d’Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand,
France, January 1996; American Economics Association - Middle East Economics Association, New
Orleans, Louisiana, January 1997; TEAM, Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, February 2006.
• "On Rational Solidarity: Evidence from Rural Producer Organizations in Senegal": Center for the Study
of African Economies (CSAE), Oxford University, March 2004; European Development Network (EUDN)
Annual Conference, Paris, December 2005.
• "Who Would Benefit from Simplifying the Tax Code? Frank Knight and Gustave Choquet Meet the
Internal Revenue Service": EUREQA seminar (séminaire Risque-Information-Décision), Université Paris
I Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, March 2005.
• "Matching in Rural Producer Organizations": Conference on the Economics of Networks, Center for the
Study of African Economies (CSAE), Oxford University, November 2004.
• "Sheepskin Effects in the Returns to Education by Ethnic Group: Evidence from Northeastern Brazil":
European Development Network (EUDN) Annual Conference, Paris, November 2003.
• "Testing for Separation in Agricultural Household Models and Unobservable Individual Effects": ZEF
Public Lectures, University of Bonn, November 2003.
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• "Is human capital useless for African growth?", "Truthtelling, countervailing incentives and reputation:
Evidence from rural micro-credit markets in Senegal" and "Foreign aid, rent-seeking behaviour and civil
war": CSAE Annual Conference on Understanding Poverty and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, Oxford
University, March 2002.
• "Déforestation et Taux de Change Réel": AUPELF-UREF Conference on development economics, Montréal, Québec, September 2001; CERDI development workshop, October 2001.
• "Contracts, Technology and Moral Hazard: the Missing Link": DELTA-EHESS-LEA, Paris, February
2001.
• "Undernourishment and Economic Growth. The Efficiency Cost of Hunger": FAO of the United Nations
(ESA Division), April 2000; European Media Seminar on Food Security and Hunger, Swedish Royal
Academy, Stockholm, Sweden, October 2001.
• "Is Adverse Selection Relevant? Spence-Mirlees Meets the Tunisian Peasant": World Congress of the
Econometric Society, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, August 1999; FAO of the United Nations (ESA
Division), Rome, Italy, September 1999; Department of Economics, University of Athens, April 2000.
• "Capital humain et croissance" and "Capital humain, productivité agricole, et travail féminin: variables latentes et séparabilité dans les modèles de ménage": AUPEL-UREF conference on Development
Economics, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, January 1999.
• "Class Position and Economic Behavior in a Tunisian Village: Selective Separability in a multi-factor
household model": Department of Economics, University of Toronto, November 1996; American Economics Association - Middle East Economics Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 1997; Département d’économie agro-alimentaire, Université Laval, Sainte Foy, Québec, April 1998.
• "The Empirics of Economic Growth in a Cross Section of Countries: Do Errors in Variables Really
Not Matter?": Department of economics, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA, October 1994; Institut d’Economie Quantitative (I.E.Q.) (Tunisian Institute for Quantitative Economics), Tunis, Tunisia,
December 1994; University of Casablanca, January 1995; Mohammed V University (Rabat), January
1995.
• "Dotations en Facteurs, Relations Contractuelles, et Croissance" and "Factor Endowments, Contractual
Relations, and Growth": Société canadienne de science économique, Université d’Ottawa, , Ottawa,
Ontario, May 1994; AUPELF-UREF, Réseau analyse économique et développement, deuxièmes journées
scientifiques, Rabat, Morocco, January 1995.
• "An Analysis of the Optimal Principal-Household Contractual Relationship": C.R.D.E. development
workshop, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, February 1993; Department of economics, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, November 1993.
• "Why Does the Distribution of Land Ownership Affect Aggregate Agricultural Output: The Case of
Egypt": Microeconomics workshop, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) April 1992; Association
française de sciences économiques, Clermont Ferrand, France, May 1992.
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Visiting professor positions
• Université Quisqueya (UniQ), Port au Prince, Haiti: February 2007.
• Université Gaston Berger de Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Sénégal: March 2005, May 2005, August 2006.
• Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, Pointe à Pitre, Guadeloupe: May 2006.
• Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, Schoelcher, Martinique: November 2004, April 2005, November
2005.
• Instituto de Saúde Coletiva (ISC), Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil,
1997-1999.
• Centre d’étude et de recherche sur le développement international (CERDI), Université d’Auvergne,
Clermont-Ferrand, France: May 1996, December 1996.
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11.3
Other presentations
Commencement speaker, Thunderbird School of Global Management, EMBA XIX, Scotsdale, Arizona, January
2011.
UNOG Thematic Seminar on Migration: A major issue for the 21 st century, presenter of "The Impact of the
Ongoing Economic Crisis on Migrants," Geneva, December 2010.
Workshop on Monitoring and Evaluation of Media Projects in Conflict Zones (organized by the Annenberg School
for Communication, University of Pennsylvania), presentation of potential impact evaluation methodologies, Caux,
December 2010.
Université de Nice, "rapporteur" on the PhD thesis of Irina Syssoyeva-Masson: "L’intégration financière et ses
effets sur les performances économiques. Le cas des nouveaux pays membres de l’Union européenne," December 2010.
Tunisian Economics Association, Annual Meetings; Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF), Membre du
comité du réseau "Analyse Economique et Développement;" creation of the "Collège doctoral maghrébin en Economie,"
Hammamet, June 2010.
KfW Bankengruppe, presentation of "Evaluating Public Policies in Developing Countries: The Search for Identification," Frankfurt, June 2010.
AERES, member of national committe for the harmonisation of evaluation of UMRs, Paris, May 2010.
Université de Nice, "rapporteur" on the PhD thesis of Ouidade Chatti: "Gouvernance et croissance économique
dans les Pays en Voie de Développement," March 2010.
Université de Nice, "rapporteur" on the PhD thesis of Maher Gordah: "Théorie des incitations et aide internationale
au développement," February 2010.
FAO / BASIS (University of California, Davis) project workshop on index insurance for small-scale agricultural and
pastoral households, Rome, January 2010.
Aix en Provence (France), rapporteur et membre du jury de la thèse de Caroline Daymon, Université de la Méditerranée, Aix-Marseille II, November 2009.
Geneva, Global Political Economy II course for the Thunderbird EMBA program, November 2009.
Bordeaux (France), Présidence du comité d’évaluation AERES du LARE-Efi, November 2009.
Paris (France), participation in the "Journees doctorale d’economie du developpement et de la transition" with
three of my PhD students from the Graduate Institute, November 2009.
Rabat (Morocco), November, presentation of the report on the results of the baseline surveys for the impact
evaluation of the Initiative Nationale de Developpement Humain (INDH). Research program funded by the World Bank
and the European Union, October 2009.
Lausanne, "Leçon inaugurale" at the EPFL’s School of Architecture (on the Gulf economies) to kick off their
academic year and studio, September 2009.
Paris (France), Agence Universitaire Francophone (AUF). Founding meeting to create an "Ecole doctorale maghrebine en Economie" (in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia), September 2009.
Bamako (Mali), course on the World Bank and impact evaluation for the Institute’s IMAS program, September
2009.
Bamako (Mali), briefing of representatives from Mali, Burkina Faso and Senegal on progress of the baseline surveys
for the PTF impact evaluations. Research program funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the UNDP,
July 2009.
Bujumbura (Burundi), preparation of the impact evaluation of Performance Based Contracting in HIV/AIDS voluntary testing and counselling (VCT). Research project funded by the SEP-CNLS and the World Bank, June 2009.
Hammamet (Tunisia), resource person for the 4th Ecole Doctorale of the Tunisian Economics Association, June
2009.
Dakar (Senegal), preparation of the impact evaluation of a peer-mentoring program in HIV-AIDS prevention.
Research project funded by the World Bank through the CNLS, Senegal, June 2009.
Geneva, public lecture in preparation for the World Climate Conference III, May 2009.
Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), World Bank conference on the impact evaluation of CDD programs. Presentations on
quasi-experimental methods and social network analysis, April 2009.
Capetown (Republic of South Africa), World Bank conference on the impact evaluation of HIV-AIDS programs.
Presentations on causal effects and non-experimental methods, March 2009.
Conference, Global Development Network (GDN), Beijing, China, January 2007.
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Conference, Inwent, "Conference to prepare the 2008 World Development Report," presenter, "Decentralization,
Local Governance, and Rural Development," Berlin, Germany, September 2006.
Conference, Université Quisqueya, presenter, "Trois conférences sur les trappes à pauvreté," Port-au-Prince, Haiti,
May 2006.
Conference, African Economic Research Consortium bi-annual research conference, Johannesburg, Republic of
South Africa, December 2005.
Conference, keynote speaker, Tropentag 2005, University of Hohenheim, Germany, October 2005.
Conference, African Economic Research Consortium bi-annual research conference, Nairobi, Kenya, June 2005.
Conference, Global Development Network (GDN), New Delhi, India, January 2004.
Conference, World Bank Regional Workshop on Land Issues in Africa, Invited speaker, Session on "Land Markets in
Africa: Pre-conditions, Potential and Limitations," comments on paper by Frank Place, Kampala, Uganda: April-May,
2002.
Symposium, Round table on new Mediterranean partnerships involving questions of culture, security and economics,
presided by Edgar Pisani, Ministry of foreign affairs and international trade, Government of Canada, invited participant,
Ottawa, Ontario, April 1996.
Presentation, C.R.D.E. training program created for the Canadian International Development Agency on public
finance questions in LDCs , presenter: "Public Expenditure Reviews," and "Restructuring of state-owned enterprises
and privatization," Hull, Québec, March 1996.
Seminar, McGill University, World Bank program in development economics, presenter: "On the Microeconomics
of Agrarian Organization in LDCs: Implications for Policy," Montréal, Québec, February 1996.
Symposium, Round table on Tunisian enterprises and economic change, organized by the Institut d’Economie
Quantitative (IEQ) (Tunisian Institute for Quantitative Economics), Ministry of Economic Development (Republic of
Tunisia), invited speaker, Tunis, Tunisia, December 1995.
Symposium, Round table on privatization organized by the Ministry of Privatization, Kingdom of Morocco, invited
speaker, Casablanca, Morocco, November 1995.
Seminar, department of sociology, Université de Montréal, presenter: "Growth and development: trends in the
Maghreb countries," Montréal, Québec, November 1995.
Symposium, Workshop of strategic planning to 2010, Institut d’Economie Quantitative (Tunisian Institute for
Quantitative Economics), Ministry of Economic Development (Republic of Tunisia), presenter: "Endogenous growth
and development: Tunisian perspectives," Tunis, Tunisia, July 1995.
Seminar, Ministry of Economic Development (Republic of Tunisia), presenter: "Privatization in LDCs: general
principles and practical lessons," Tunis, Tunisia, July 1995.
Congress, Canadian Economics Association, session chair: "Foreign Aid," Montréal, Québec, June 1995.
Presentation, C.R.D.E. training program created for the Canadian International Development Agency on public
finance questions in LDCs, presenter: "Restructuring of state-owned enterprises and privatization," Hull, Québec,
November 1994.
Symposium, PARADI Symposium on the economics of development, presenter: "Dotations en facteurs, relations
contractuelles et croissance"; discussant: "Taxation, contrôles salariaux et secteur informel: une approche d’équilibre
général appliquée au Cameroun," by Bernard Fortin, Nicolas Marceau and Luc Savard (Université Laval); discussant:
"La libéralisation financière en Tunisie: une étude rétrospective et prospective," by Bernard Decaluwe and Mokhtar
Souissi (Université Laval), Québec, November 1994.
Symposium, Canadian International Development Agency Symposium on Privatization in LDCs (Policy Branch),
presenter: "Privatization in LDCs: Getting The Questions Right," Hull, Québec, October 1994.
Congress, Société canadienne de science économique, Université d’Ottawa, session chair: "Economics of development"; discussant: "Wage Tournaments in West Africa," by Leonard Houantchekon (Yale University) , Ottawa,
Ontario, May 1994.
Presentation, C.R.D.E. training program created for the Canadian International Development Agency on public
finance questions in LDCs, presenter: "Public Expenditure Reviews," and "Restructuring of state-owned enterprises
and privatization," Ottawa, Ontario, March 1994.
Seminar, C.R.D.E., Université de Montréal, presenter: "Vers une microéconomie du développement," Montréal,
December 1993.
Presentation, C.R.D.E. training program created for the Canadian International Development Agency on structural
adjustment in LDCs, Ottawa, Ontario, May 1993, June 1993, October 1993, November 1993, March 1994.
C.R.D.E. development workshop, Université de Montréal: "Growth and Social Custom," March 1992; "Supply
Response and Marketing Board Policy: The Case of Egyptian Cotton," February 1993; "Credit Constraints and Endogenous Growth: Are McKinnon-Shaw-Fry and the Neo-structuralist Both Right?," April 1993; "Female Labor Force
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Participation and Growth I: Theory," April 1993; "Female Labor Force Participation and Growth II: Empirical Evidence,"
April 1993.
Congress, Canadian Association of African Studies, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), presenter: "Structural adjustment and the organization of agricultural credit in Egypt," Montréal, Québec, May 1992.
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