Isis Gaddis
Economist
Isis Gaddis is an Economist with the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) team in Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania). Before joining the World Bank in 2012, she was a research associate with the development economics research group of the University of Goettingen in Germany, where she also just submitted her Ph.D. thesis. Her research interests are in the fields of labor economics, poverty and inequality analysis and public service delivery. She previously also worked as a consultant for development agencies in Kenya, Uganda, Zambia and Egypt, primarily in the fields of poverty and welfare measurement, labor market policies, fiscal policy and statistical development. She holds a Master degree in Economics from the University of Goettingen and has studied geographic information systems at Lund University in Sweden.
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- 05/14/13 (Not) On the Move: Road Transport in Tanzania
- 05/13/13 Across the universe of firms in Tanzania
- 05/01/13 The power of commercial lending: Myth or reality?
- 04/25/13 Bed Nets, Drugs and a Finger Prick of Blood – Tanzania's Fight Against Malaria.
- 04/16/13 Can Tanzania achieve its Green Revolution?
- 04/10/13 Is Tanzania’s economic growth an urban phenomenon?
- 04/04/13 Youth in Tanzania: a growing uneducated labor force
- 03/27/13 Toilets missing in action
- 03/19/13 A bank in your pocket: The mobile money revolution in Tanzania
- 03/04/13 A well-kept secret: Tanzania’s export performance
- 02/22/13 Please use -but don't abuse- Tanzania’s forests
- 02/20/13 Land of opportunity: Should Tanzania encourage more large-scale farming?
- 02/12/13 HIV/Aids: Still Claiming Too Many Lives
- 02/04/13 Is Tanzania Raising Enough Tax Revenue?
- 01/25/13 Law and Order: Countering the threat of crime in Tanzania
- 01/23/13 Why Tanzanian farmers don’t sell what they produce?
- 01/14/13 Perilous pregnancies: How to improve maternal health in Tanzania?
- 01/07/13 How much are Tanzanians paying for their food?
- 12/03/12 Time for high quality education for all?
- 11/27/12 Where is my cow? Theft and disease of livestock increase poverty in rural Tanzania
- 11/20/12 How can the mobile revolution lift up Tanzania’s poor?
- 11/12/12 We want jobs, jobs, jobs
- 10/31/12 Only 14% of Tanzanians have electricity. What can be done?
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