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Shaping policy for development

An overview of Lagoro IDP camp in Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 20 May 2007. Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
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Isabella Massa
Isabella Massa

Isabella Massa

Research Fellow, International Economic Development Group

Dr Isabella Massa has policy-oriented research experience, in particular with respect to African countries. Before joining ODI, she has worked as an Economist (FIP) at the International Monetary Fund within the Middle East and Central Asia Department, and has developed an extensive academic experience as research assistant and instructor in different international universities. Her research interests focus on private capital flows, stock markets development and economic growth. She has published in the Emerging Markets Review, African Development Review, Applied Financial Economics, International Review of Financial Analysis and in institutional working papers as well as occasional papers. She has a PhD in Economics and Organization at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, Italy.

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Cusco, Peru
Cusco, Peru

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ERD 2013: European Report on Development

Projects - March 2012 to June 2013
The objective of this initiative is to enhance a European perspective on development issues in the international arena, on the basis of knowledge excellence, innovation and building of common ground between the European research community and policy-makers. The European Report on Development 2013 aims to provide an independent European contribution to the emerging debate on a possible post-2015 consensus on international development.
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Climate finance: developing countries’ perspective

Publication - Briefing papers - 30 January 2012
Isabella Massa
Climate finance is vital to help poor and most vulnerable countries cope with the adverse effects of climate change. Although developing countries have little or no responsibility for climate change, they are the ones most affected by and most vulnerable to its impacts because of their geography, high dependence on climate sensitive resources, low adaptive capacity, high poverty rates, and vulnerable social, institutional and physical infrastructure. This policy brief explores how to finance climate from a developing country perspective
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The impact of global crises, trade finance and aid on export flows: a developing country perspective

Publication - Research reports and studies - 1 December 2011
Jose Brambila-Macias, Isabella Massa and Matthew J. Salois
This paper assesses the impact of trade finance and foreign aid on bilateral export flows. results underline the importance of both trade finance and aid in boosting developing countries’ exports flows, thus suggesting that trade finance is not the only form of financing with implications for trade flows.
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