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Contents of this page
Micro-economic Analysis of Household Surveys
Supply Chains in developing Countries
The Economics of Conflict
Ph.D. in Economics, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. Thesis: “Conflict and Survival: an Analysis of Shocks, Coping Strategies and Economic Mobility in Rwanda, 1990-2002.” (Supervisor: Professor J. Swinnen). Successfully defended on May, 22, 2006
Masters of Science in Economics, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. Completed with Great Distinction.Masters of Science in Economics (University of Leuven)
Doctoral Dissertation, 2006, "Conflict and Survival: Shocks, Coping Strategies and Economic Mobility in Rwanda, 1990-2002".
(July 2000) Price for Development Cooperation of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for the undergraduate thesis "Imperfect Markets: a case-study in Senegal".
Spring 2009: Co-ordination of fieldwork including household surveys in Benin
Spring 2008: Co-ordination of fieldwork including household surveys in Rwanda
July-August 2006: Non-Fee Short Term Consultant at the World Bank, DECRG Unit, Washington
September 2004: Visiting Researcher at CAPE (Cellule d’Analyse de Politique Economique), Cotonou, Benin.
April-June 2004: Visiting Researcher at the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Oxford University
December - March 2003: Interviews with key informants in rural and urban areas of Rwanda, household interviews in Gikongoro and Gitarama Province.
February - April 2002: Household surveys in Rwanda, Gikongoro and Gitarama Province
July-September 1999: Household surveys in the South-West of Senegal.
September 2006, "Cattle Sales in war and peacetime: a study of household coping in Rwanda, 1991-2001", NEUDC Conference, Cornell University.
May 2006, "Cattle Sales in war and peacetime: a study of household coping in Rwanda, 1991-2001", Young Economist Conference, Sevilla.
March 2006, "Self - Insurance in Rwandan Households: the Use of Livestock as a Buffer Stock in Times of Violent Conflict", CSAE Conference 2006: Reducing Poverty and Inequality: How can Africa be included?, Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford. "
December 2005, "Self - Insurance in Rwandan Households: the Use of Livestock as a Buffer Stock in Times of Violent Conflict", CESifo CONFERENCE Guns and Butter: The Economic Causes and Consequences of Conflict, CESifo Conference Centre, Munich.
October 2004, "Genocide and land scarcity: can rural households manage?", Forum 2004, African Development and Poverty Reduction: The Macro-Micro Linkage, organized jointly by DPRU, TIPS and Cornell university in Cape Town, South Africa.
November 2003, “Income mobility of Rwandan rural households”, EUDN-workshop for doctoral students, Bonn.
September 2003, “Changing income sources and inequality in Rwanda”, Colloquium: inequality, poverty and conflict in Rwanda, Louvain.
April 2003, "Income mobility, ethnicity and the rural economy in post-genocide Rwanda: micro-level evidence", Young Economist Conference, Louvain.
May 2002, “Imperfect Markets in Senegal”, Frontiers in Development Economics, Louvain.
October 2005, “Self-Insurance in Rwandan households: the use of livestock as a buffer stock in times of violent conflict”, CRED seminar FUNDP, Namur.
May 2005 , “Self-Insurance by Rwandan households: the use of livestock as a buffer stock in times of violent conflict”, Doctoral Workshop for PhD students in Economics, Louvain-la-Neuve.
October 2004, "Economic Mobility in Rwanda: A study of the effects of genocide and land scarcity at the household level", LICOS seminar, Louvain.
May 2004, "Genocide and land scarcity: can Rwandan households manage?", Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Oxford.
November 2002, "Post-conflict Rwanda: results of recent fieldwork", Work group seminar, Louvain.
