Stefan Dercon
Stefan Dercon is a Belgian economist and a Professor of Economic Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government and the Economics Department at the University of Oxford [1]. He is also the Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies. In 2011-2017, Dercon was the chief economist of the UK Department for International Development (DfID). Before DfID, Dercon was a Professor of Development Economics at Oxford University, and the lead academic for the Ethiopia country programme at the International Growth Centre, which is a research centre based jointly at The London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of Oxford. Between 2000 and 2002 he was a Programme Director at the World Institute of Development Economics (WIDER), United Nations University, where he led their research programme on “Insurance against Poverty”. Prior to this, between 1993 and 2000, he was a tenured professor of development economics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium [2].
Key themes
His research as focused on a range of subjects including:
- risk and poverty
- agriculture and rural institutions,
- political economy,
- childhood poverty,
- social and geographic mobility,
- micro-insurance, and
- measurement issues related to poverty and vulnerability.
The work has typically involved the collection and analysis of longitudinal data sets – in particular he worked on:
- an examination of rural households
- Ethiopia (ERHS)
- Tanzania (KHDS)
- India (new ICRISAT VLS)
- an examination of children in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam (The Young Lives project).
Noted works
- (2004) Insurance against Poverty, 2004, Oxford University Press (Edited volume)
- (2002) The Impact of Economic Reforms on Rural Households in Ethiopia, Washington D.C. World Bank.
References
- ↑ https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/people/stefan-dercon
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-06-28. Retrieved 2010-04-11.
