Stephanie Levy

Stephanie is a development economist with over 10 years of experience in rural development policies and pro-poor growth in Africa and South-East Asia. Stephanie has an extensive experience of modelling and policy analysis using simulation tools and quantitative analysis methods. As an academic researcher, she worked on trade, public investment, private sector development and access to finance.

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 research focuses on pro-poor growth, food security, social protection, risk and vulnerability and natural resource booms.