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Stephanie Levy
Stephanie is a development economist with a research focus mainly on public and private investment in Africa.
Her PhD research examines the use of natural resource revenue to finance pro-poor growth strategies. This work is applied to the case of Chad using a general equilibrium model to compare different of public investment strategies. She has also worked on the land reform in Zimbabwe for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the World Bank, studying which are the investment policies that should come alongside the land redistribution in order to prevent the food production and the productivity in this sector to fall.
Stephanie joined ODI in October 2005, previously having worked for the London Business School on a DFID project analysing the investment climate in Senegal and the institutional and market influence on firm creation and survival.
Her current interest is credit market and private investment in Sub-Saharan Africa. Her research aims to characterise credit constraint and analyse the economic impact of financial market segmentation on productivity, resource allocation, development and growth.
s.levy@odi.org.uk
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