Department of Development Studies
Dr Jonathan Di John
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Key information
Key information
- Roles
- Department of Development Studies Senior Lecturer in Political Economy Research Cluster Member Research Cluster Member Research Cluster Member Centre of African Studies Member
- Department
- Department of Development Studies
- Qualifications
- BA (Harvard); PhD (Cantab)
- Building
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office
- 370
- Email address
- jd5@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone number
- 020 7898 4087
- Support hours
- By email appointment
Research interests
His main areas of expertise are development economics, institutional economics and the political economy of growth and development in Latin America, especially in Venezuela, Brazil, and Colombia. His research interests focus on political economy, especially concerning industrial strategy, taxation and tax reform, corruption, privatisation, oil economies, and conflict and war in mineral abundant economies. He was also a principal researcher at the Crisis States Research Centre at the London School of Economics. He has done consultancy work for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Department for International Development (DFID), the World Bank, the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
PhD Supervision
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Jonathan R. Beloff | The Evolution of Rwandan Foreign Policy: from Genocide to Globalisation |
| Mr Jean-Baptiste Damestoy | Governance capabilities, industrialisation and the state: the case of the cotton and textile sectors in Ethiopia |
| Mr Julian Manuel Goetz | The Impact of Informal and Rural Labour Markets on Poverty Reduction: A Mixed Methods Study of Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Northwest Tanzania (working title) |
| Charlotte Hübner | “The Role of the Oil & Gas Sector in Late Industrialisation: Lessons from Malaysia” (Working Title) |
| Mr Sarajuddin Isar | Taxation and state-building in Afghanistan, a political economy framework |
| Ms Cristina Mosneaga | Transition from informality to more formality of small and medium enterprises in Lagos, Nigeria |
| Suraj Janardhan Nair | The Political Economy of Malaysian Development Banking. |
| Miss Pauline Ravillard | The Role of Labour Unions in Explaining the Productivity-Wage Gap in Chile |
| Mr Fernandes Wanda | Capitalist Transformation in Transition: Exploring business political elite linkage in post-war Angola (working title) |
Publications
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