College of Development, Economics and Finance & Department of Economics

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Roles
College of Development, Economics and Finance Dean of College Department of Economics Professor in Development Economics
Qualifications
BA (KUL Belgium), MSc (London) PhD (London)
Building
Russell Square: College Buildings
Office
281
Email address
ew23@soas.ac.uk
Telephone number
+44(0) 207 898 4284

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  • Principal Investigator, Trajectories of Infrastructure Financing, ESRC-NIESR funded via Rebuilding Macroeconomics, together with Kate Bayliss and Benjamin Bowles.
  • Co-Investigator on a GCRF/ESRC Strategic Network entitled Equalities in Public Private Partnership (EQUIPPPS)
  • International financial institutions, alternative macroeconomic policy, infrastructure financing, public private partnerships
  • Housing policy in developing countries.
  • Co-Investigator in a FP7 funded programme entitled Financialisation, Economy, Society and Sustainable Development (FESSUD), a multidisciplinary project five-year project which aims to forge alliances across the social sciences, so as to understand how finance can better serve economic, social and environmental need. Work Package 6: Finance, Development and Global Governance
  • Coordinator of the Research Cluster: International Financial Institutions, Neoliberalism and Knowledge.

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James Naughton Reform Without Change- Is the 2009 Reform of Concessional Lending Facilities by the IMF illusionary?
María José Romero Re-examining public-private partnerships (PPPs) across health and education - How global policy making processes articulate with the domestic policy sphere in Peru and Uganda (working title)
Joel Sam

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