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 for developing countires from experience with TVET

Projects - August 2011 to October 2011

This project encompasses a desk study to provide policy options for design, implementation of strategies and the development of ideas for a comprehensive reform plan for improving the performance of technical and vocational education and training(TVET) which is critical for private sector development and sustainable economic growth in Sierra Leone.

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Development at the G-20: a Commonwealth role in facilitating, implementing and monitoring, with a focus on Commonwealth small states

Publication - Research reports and studies - 1 June 2011

Dirk Willem te Velde; Isabella Massa; Jane Kennan; Christian Kingombe

This paper aims to conceptualise the development agenda at the G-20 from a perspective which takes into account the vulnerabilities and resilience of Commonwealth small states, which have different development priorities from other types of developing countries.

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The G-20 and financial inclusion: perspectives and suggestions from developing countries of the Commonwealth and Francophonie

Publication - Research reports and studies - 1 June 2011

Dirk Willem te Velde; Isabella Massa; Jane Kennan; Christian Kingombe

The Commonwealth and Francophonie represent more than 100 countries and 2.5 billion people. The association countries provide excellent examples of best practice from which many other developing countries and regions may be able to learn, so the two associations and the G20 are natural partners in promoting financial inclusion.

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Study on shock absorbing schemes in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific countries – FLEX Study

Publication - Research reports and studies - 30 May 2011

Dirk Willem te Velde, Stephany Griffith-Jones, Christian Kingombe, Judith Tyson

This paper examines the future design of shock facilities by the European Commission, and makes broader suggestions for a more general shocks architecture.

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Collecting water from a road side water point

Progress-linked finance: A study of the feasibility and practicality of a proposed WASH financing approach

Projects - May 2011 to August 2011

Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor's (WSUP) evolving experience over recent years has led them to propose a financing model which they have initially denominated "triggering" or "progress-linked finance" (PLF). Under this model, the key institutional and business actors in city-level WASH development move towards readiness for major scale-up financing through capacity development, WASH planning and institutional strengthening. ODI's Water Policy Programme will provide an informed scoping study to assess theoretical feasibility of the progress-linked finance (PLF) model and uptake by development actors, developing a number of options for how PLF might work in different contexts.

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