Land and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sep
25
05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
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Unlocking land access
Join our webcast with Lorenzo Casaburi, UBS Foundation Associate Professor of Development Economics, to learn more about the impact of development economics.
Population pressure, urbanization, and climate change are causing major changes in land policies and land markets across Sub-Saharan Africa. These changes have implications for land use, economic development, and social stability. New research approaches, including analysis of large-scale administrative data and experimental trials, can shed light on these dynamics. In this webcast, Prof. Casaburi presents recent research on land tenure systems in Uganda and rural land rental markets in Kenya and discusses how the results can inform actions to ensure safe and productive land access.
Live from the UZH Studios, we review recent economic research on the topic and take questions from the audience via Mentimeter. The host is Dina Pomeranz, UBS Foundation Assistant Professor of Applied Economics.
This is a public event with free access via livestream on our website in association with the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).
Join our webcast with Lorenzo Casaburi, UBS Foundation Associate Professor of Development Economics, to learn more about the impact of development economics.
Population pressure, urbanization, and climate change are causing major changes in land policies and land markets across Sub-Saharan Africa. These changes have implications for land use, economic development, and social stability. New research approaches, including analysis of large-scale administrative data and experimental trials, can shed light on these dynamics. In this webcast, Prof. Casaburi presents recent research on land tenure systems in Uganda and rural land rental markets in Kenya and discusses how the results can inform actions to ensure safe and productive land access.
Lorenzo Casaburi is UBS Foundation Associate Professor of Development Economics at the University of Zurich
Speakers
UBS Foundation Associate Professor of Development Economics
Lorenzo Casaburi is an Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Economics at the University of Zurich. His main line of research focuses on agricultural markets in Sub-Saharan Africa, with an emphasis on market structure, behavioral insights, and agricultural finance. He also works on state capacity, with an emphasis on tax enforcement and redistribution policies. For his research, he has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant), the Swiss National Foundation (Eccellenza Grant), USAID, and DFID, among others. Lorenzo holds a B.A. from the University of Bologna and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard. Before joining Zurich, he was a postdoc at Stanford SIEPR. He is a Research Fellow at CEPR and a Research Affiliate at BREAD, IGC, IPA, and J-PAL
UBS Foundation Assistant Professor of Applied Economics
Dina Pomeranz received her PhD from Harvard in 2010. Prior to joining the University of Zurich, she was an assistant professor at Harvard Business School and a Post-Doctoral Fellow at MIT's Poverty Action Lab. Her research focuses on developing countries, in particular on public finance, taxation, public procurement and firm development. Taking state-capacity research to the field, she works closely with the governments in Chile, Ecuador and Kenya to analyze strategies to strengthen public finance capabilities, and measure the impacts on government agencies, citizens and firms. Her work has been published in academic journals including the American Economic Review, the American Economic Journal - Applied Economics, and the Journal of Economic Development. In 2017, she was awarded one of the highly competitive ERC Starting Grants for her research on tax evasion and the role of firm networks. In 2018, she received the Excellence Prize in Applied Development Research of the “Verein für Socialpolitik”, was named as one of the top 10 most influential economists in Switzerland by a consortium of Swiss newspapers and was elected to the Council of the European Economic Association for a 5-year term.
UBS Foundation Associate Professor of Development Economics
Lorenzo Casaburi is an Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Economics at the University of Zurich. His main line of research focuses on agricultural markets in Sub-Saharan Africa, with an emphasis on market structure, behavioral insights, and agricultural finance. He also works on state capacity, with an emphasis on tax enforcement and redistribution policies. For his research, he has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant), the Swiss National Foundation (Eccellenza Grant), USAID, and DFID, among others. Lorenzo holds a B.A. from the University of Bologna and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard. Before joining Zurich, he was a postdoc at Stanford SIEPR. He is a Research Fellow at CEPR and a Research Affiliate at BREAD, IGC, IPA, and J-PAL
UBS Foundation Assistant Professor of Applied Economics
Dina Pomeranz received her PhD from Harvard in 2010. Prior to joining the University of Zurich, she was an assistant professor at Harvard Business School and a Post-Doctoral Fellow at MIT's Poverty Action Lab. Her research focuses on developing countries, in particular on public finance, taxation, public procurement and firm development. Taking state-capacity research to the field, she works closely with the governments in Chile, Ecuador and Kenya to analyze strategies to strengthen public finance capabilities, and measure the impacts on government agencies, citizens and firms. Her work has been published in academic journals including the American Economic Review, the American Economic Journal - Applied Economics, and the Journal of Economic Development. In 2017, she was awarded one of the highly competitive ERC Starting Grants for her research on tax evasion and the role of firm networks. In 2018, she received the Excellence Prize in Applied Development Research of the “Verein für Socialpolitik”, was named as one of the top 10 most influential economists in Switzerland by a consortium of Swiss newspapers and was elected to the Council of the European Economic Association for a 5-year term.