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.

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Mobile banking for catalysing diaspora investment: a leapfrogging development opportunity for the ACP and DRC

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 24 May 2012

The Second Global African Diaspora Summit, organised by the African Union (AU) and bringing together leaders from over 60 countries, started yesterday.

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Services trade and regional integration in sub-Saharan Africa: options for continental collaboration

Publication - Briefing papers - 31 March 2012

Christian Kingombe

This brief examines how services affect growth; what are barriers to regional integration in trade in services and how they are being addressed within five regional economic communities (RECs). It explores to what extent the lack of implementation, coordination and harmonization of protocol provisions across the RECs could be improved through a supra-regional continental approach led by the African Union Commission (AUC).

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Mobile banking in DRC: opportunities and constraints for the Diaspora and investors

Event - Conference - 23 March 2012 07:45 - 17:30 (GMT+01 (BST))

This year’s second edition of the Economic Forum for Congolese in the European Union (FECUE) is devoted to the issues associated with the transfer of funds/money from the European Union (EU) to DRC (i.e. reverse capital flight) and their allocation towards both economic and social projects in DRC. In particular, attention will be focused on the role of new enabling technologies, especially “Mobile Banking”. Christian Kingombe will lead and present the key summary from the meeting.

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CSAE conference 2012: economic development in Africa

Event - Conference - 18 - 20 March 2012

This conference addressed economic analysis of the broad issues relevant for economic development in Africa. As part of a session exploring agricultural markets, Christian Kingombe presented his paper which investigated The impact of a feeder road project on cash crop production in Zambia's eastern province between 1997 and 2002. A copy of the presentation can be downloaded below.

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