Christian Kingombe

Research Officer, International Economic Development Group

Christian Kingombe is working for "The Trade, Investment and Growth" programme (IEDG) at the ODI in London, which seeks to understand what drives growth and investment. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the IHEID in Geneva.

He has e.g. studied: Economic Growth under Antonio Ciccone and Xavier Sala-i-Martin at CREI, Pompeu Fabra; Transport Investment Appraisal under e.g. Nigel Smith; Chris Nash and Peter Mackie at the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds; Finance and Investment under Kenton Zumwalt & Robert A. Strong at Harvard University; and Trade under Philip C. Abbott; Tom Hertel and Alan Winters at Copenhagen University.

He earned his B.Sc.(1997) & M.Sc.(2002) from the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and is in the process of earning a Ph.D. from the Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London & University of London (2010) under Colin Thirtle; Salvatore di Falco & Jonathan Kydd.

In the past, Christian Kingombe has worked as a consultant for numerous international organisations, including various UN agencies (UNCTAD, UNECE, and ILO), the OECD, the World Bank, and the European Commission. He has also assisted the government of Denmark’s Africa Commission on Effective Development Cooperation with Africa within framework of Youth & Employment. Specialties: Trade Facilitation (A4T); Trade in Services; Economic Growth; Infrastructure Project Appraisal; Applied Econometrics; How International Finance (Debt, FDI and FPI) affect growth; Public Finance; Public-Private Partnerships (PPP); Infrastructure and Urbanisation; International Agricultural Development.

Outputs

Structural transformation and employment creation: the role of growth facilitation policies in Sub-Saharan Africa

Publication - Research reports and studies - 1 December 2012

Dirk Willem te Velde and Christian Kingombe

This report was prepared as background research for the World Development Report 2013 and focuses on employment creation and structural transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Increasing the effectiveness of Aid for Trade: the circumstances under which it works best

Publication - Discussion papers - 31 August 2012

ODI Working Papers 353

Yurendra Basnett, Jakob Engel, Jane Kennan, Christian Kingombe, Isabella Massa and Dirk Willem te Velde

This review paper seeks to assess the impact of Aid for Trade thus far, and what has worked and what the barriers to improving the impact of Aid for Trade are.

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The linkage between outcome differences in cotton production and rural roads improvements: a matching approach

Publication - Research reports and studies - 9 August 2012

Christian Kingombe

This paper tests the linkage between a binary treatment (rural road improvement project) and a continuous outcome (cotton productivity) in Zambia’s agro-based Eastern Province as measured by repeated cross-sections of farm-level data from the Zambian post-harvest survey (PHS).

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The next decade of EU trade policy: confronting global challenges?

Publication - Research reports and studies - 25 July 2012

On 27 January 2012, the European Commission (EC) published a Communication ‘Trade, Growth and Development: Tailoring trade and investment policy for those countries most in need’. This report brings together 18 essays from the world’s leading trade and development experts to discuss the main issues covered.

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Regional analysis of Eastern province feeder road project district level estimation of the poverty alleviation effects of rural roads improvements in Zambia’s Eastern province

Publication - Discussion papers - 1 July 2012

Working paper 10/2012

Christian Kingombe

This paper provides an impact evaluation of poor rural area feeder road (aid for trade) development project in Zambia and contributes to the debate about the role of rural transport infrastructure development in explaining long-term rural development.

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