Gabriel Demombynes
Gabriel is Senior Economist in the Nairobi office of the World Bank, where he has worked on poverty issues in Kenya and Sudan since November 2009. Previously he was an Economist in the Poverty and Gender Group of the Bank’s Latin America and Caribbean division. He has led various Bank studies and published work in academic journals on poverty mapping, poverty and growth analysis, and the economics of crime. He has taught economic development at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and was Economic Policy Advisor to Howard Dean during his 2003-04 presidential campaign. Gabriel holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California-Berkeley and bachelor's degrees in civil engineering and humanities from the University of Texas at Austin.
- 12/18/12 Creating more and better jobs in Kenya
- 10/01/12 Opening Up Microdata Access in Africa
- 05/10/12 The Millennium Villages Project Impacts on Child Mortality
- 05/07/12 Africa's success story: Infant mortality down
- 04/03/12 Can mobile phones be used to "bank" the poor?
- 03/09/12 Is mobile technology over-hyped?
- 12/12/11 Crowdsourcing Poverty Research
- 11/08/11 Poor Evaluation Methods Can Mislead: New Developments in the Millennium Villages Evaluation
- 11/01/11 Business is brewing in the world’s newest country
- 06/02/11 The Oxford Millennium Villages Debate
- 03/29/11 More on South Sudan: the Poverty Profile + Videos of Lant Pritchett & Shanta in Juba
- 03/21/11 MVP evaluation session at Oxford
- 03/08/11 Collecting survey data via mobile phone in Southern Sudan
- 02/04/11 Millennium Villages Project continues to systematically overstate its effects
- 10/22/10 Evaluating the Millennium Villages: Reply to the MVP + Upcoming Seminar with Comments from Jeff Sachs
- 10/11/10 Evaluating the Millennium Villages
- 09/20/10 Africa's great strides towards the MDGs
- 08/10/10 The Multidimensional Poverty Index Debate: rounds 2, 3, 4 …
- 08/03/10 A debate on multidimensional poverty indices