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

Lessons from Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) reforms in Africa and Asia

Publication - Articles and blogs - 30 September 2011

Christian Kingombe

The paper makes suggestions for how to address future challenges and opportunities to ensure that the good performance of TVET reforms elsewhere contribute to the promotion of sustainable growth through private sector development in Sierra Leone.

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Scoping study on intra-SSA services trade and regional integration

Projects - September 2011 to November 2011

The low level of intra-African trade remains a major concern to Africa, explaining why African Unions Head of State and Government have decided to have as the theme for their next summit to be held in Addis Ababa in January/February 2012 'Boosting Intra-African Trade'. This study will provide a short note on services and services trade in Sub-Saharan Africa, for a forthcoming meeting of Trade officials and Ministers in late 2011 and will also form the basis for a short policy brief to Leaders at the 2012 Summit.

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Education, skills and development: same goals but alternative approaches

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 15 September 2011

Policy interest in skills development (or technical vocational education and training, TVET) to provide increased options for employment or self-employment has grown dramatically in the last decade and has sharpened with the economic recession.

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The role of services in trade diagnostics

Projects - September 2011 to November 2011

This study aims to provide preliminary insights on methodologies that could improve the capturing of services-specific issues in trade diagnostic work and help to frame additional research to refine and test the approach. This work intends to contribute to a strengthened ability to identify constrains to services trade and also assist in the development of better-targeted aid-for-trade interventions and reforms in the services realm.

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Achieving pro-poor growth through investment in rural feeder roads: the role of impact evaluation

Publication - Discussion papers - 30 August 2011

ODI Background Notes

Christian Kingombe

It has been argued that investment in rural transport infrastructure could be considered pre-requisites for growth and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). However there is little formal evidence on their benefits to households or to enterprises. This Background Note provides suggestions on what state-of-the-art aid-for-trade (AfT) impact evaluations could look like.

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