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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Lessons for developing countries from experience with technical and vocational education and training

Publication - Research reports and studies - 31 January 2012

Working Paper 11/1017

Christian Kingombe

Based on frontier research on the lessons learned from recent Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) reforms in other developing countries , this paper aims to inform the future comprehensive design and implementation of strategies for TVET in Sierra Leone.

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A diaspora for development? The role of DRC’s diaspora in the country’s future

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 8 December 2011

As the Democratic Republic of Congo emerges from only its second peacetime election since 2003, the potential role of its Diaspora has come into sharp focus. I believe that the Diaspora could improve the odds of DRC transforming itself to become the Brazil of sub-Saharan Africa – the hub of continental economic integration. The Department for International Development (DFID) is taking steps to unlock this potential. It is to be hoped that after the election many more will follow.

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Microfinance: a flawed or a failed idea?

Event - Seminar - 4 November 2011 10:00 - 12:00 (GMT+01 (BST))

Christian Kingombe - Senior Research Officer - chaired a seminar which explored the history and impact of microfinance in a number of locations including Bangladesh, India, Bosnia, Morocco and many others. The speakers sought to answer why expected outcomes of microfinance have not emerged and why so many countries are now facing a repayment crisis?

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Progress-Linked Finance: a study of the feasibility and practicality of a proposed WASH financing approach

Publication - Discussion papers - 31 October 2011

Nathaniel Mason, Josephine Tucker, Christian Kingombe, Michelle Kooy

This report assesses the feasibility of a financing model, Progress-Linked Finance (PLF), designed to incentivise and support water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) service providers to meet the needs of poor urban residents in a financially sustainable manner.

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The new Danish coalition government’s changed approach to development

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 13 October 2011

After Denmark’s General Election on 15 September 2011 a period of 17 days of intense and hopefully thorough negotiations followed between three opposition parties, which eventually led to a centre-left minority coalition on the 3 October based on a 76-page Government Programme. This has brought 10 years of right-wing coalition government to an end, and has provided an opportunity to review and revise Denmark’s foreign policy.

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