Parallel session
Land and property rights

Klaus Deininger | Thomas Markussen | Elisabeth Sadoulet | Amelia Santos Paulino

Alain de Janvry | Chair

Alain de Janvry is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. His area of interest is international economic development, with expertise principally in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle-East, and the Indian subcontinent. He has worked with international development agencies such as FAO, IFAD, the World Bank, UNDP, ILO, the CGIAR, and the Inter-American Development Bank as well as with foundations such as Ford, Rockefeller, Kellogg, and Gates.

Klaus Deininger | Presenter | Presentation

Klaus Deininger is a Lead Economist at the World Bank in the agricultural and rural research unit of the Development Research Group. His areas of research focus on income and asset inequality and its relationship to poverty reduction and growth; access to land, land markets and land reform and their impact on household welfare and agricultural productivity; land tenure and its impact on investment, including environmental sustainability; and capacity building for policy analysis and evaluation, mainly in the Africa, Central America, and East Asia Regions.

Thomas Markussen | Presenter | Presentation

Thomas Markussen is Associate Professor and International Coordinator in the Department of Economics at University of Copenhagen. He has worked as a consultant for the World Bank and Danida and taught at University of Nairobi. Professor Markussen has a background in political science as well as economics. His research focuses on collective action, economic development, political economy, experimental economics, land rights, good governance and democracy. 

Elisabet Sadoulet | Presenter | Presentation

Elisabeth Sadoulet is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley. Her research interests span agricultural technologies, microcredit, conservation, conditional cash transfers, and property rights. Sadoulet has conducted field research in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, India, and China. Sadoulet has also consulted for several international agencies and foreign governments, including the FAO, the Government of Mexico, and the World Bank.

Amelia Santos Paulino | Discussant | Presentation

Dr Amelia U. Santos-Paulino is an Economist at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva.  Previously, she was a Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, Research Fellow at IDS Sussex, and Economist in the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic. Her research has been published in journals and books including Economic Journal, World Development, Cambridge Journal of Economics, and Oxford University Press.