Policy and Governance in Developing Countries
About this Research Theme
This research theme covers economics, policy and governance in low to middle-income and developing countries. Topics include interventions to improve health, reduce poverty and create equity-enhancing outcomes in the developing world.
Faculty
Anil Varughese
- Associate Professor, Graduate Supervisor (Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership) — Political Communication and Political Behavior; Governance and Democratic Deepening in Global South; Social Policy; South Asia
- anil.varughese@carleton.ca
- 613-520-2600 ext 2556
Ardyn Nordstrom
- Assistant Professor — program and policy evaluation; development economics; education; cu_event_cost-benefit analysis; mixed-methods evaluation; machine learning
- ardyn.nordstrom@carleton.ca
José Galdo
- Professor — labour economics; development economics; applied econometrics; program evaluation
- jose.galdo@carleton.ca
- ext 2939
Mehmet Akif Demircioglu
- Associate Professor – public sector innovation and entrepreneurship, good governance, effective leadership, public management, comparative and international public administration, organization theory, organizational behavior
- Mehmet.Demircioglu@carleton.ca
- ext 2640
Vivian Hoffmann
- Associate Professor — agricultural cu_people_phone_ext; science, technology and innovation; health
- Vivian.Hoffmann@carleton.ca
- ext 2630
Recent Publications
Vivian Hoffmann’s paper examines food-safety technology uptake by semi-subsistence farmers
Vivian Hoffman Most farmers in Africa produce food both for their own consumption and for sale. We find that randomized…
Vivian Hoffmann co-authors new paper examining drinking water contamination risk in Ethiopia
SPPA Associate Professor Vivian Hoffmann Unsafe water is responsible for over a million deaths each year. Characterizing households’ access to…
Vivian Hofmann: Self-selection versus population-based sampling for evaluation of an agronomy training program in Uganda
SPPA Associate Professor Vivian Hoffmann By Vivian Hoffmann Miki Khan Doan, Tomoko Harigaya Published online: 16 Jul 2023 Journal of…