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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How infrastructure crawled back up the international development agenda in the last ten years

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 6 May 2011

The fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (UNLDC IV) in Istanbul next week may be the last chance for the international community to shift the trajectory of the Millennium Development Goal (MDGs) indicators in time to reach the targets by 2015.

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Mapping the new infrastructure financing landscape

Publication - Discussion papers - 21 April 2011

ODI Background Notes

Christian K.M. Kingombe

This Background Note examines various infrastructure financing modalities, which together could help to bridge the infrastructure gap as an indispensable means to achieving the MDGs.

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The G20 and African development

Publication - Research reports and studies - 1 April 2011

Peter Draper, Catherine Grant, Christian Kingombe and Dirk Willem te Velde

This paper discusses how the G20 can support African development. It suggests that African economic development should be seen as central to the G20 objectives, both in terms of legitimacy and as part of the G20’s efforts on global rebalancing.

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The economic rationale for French support to foreign students

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 1 April 2011

This piece asks whether France’s extraordinary figures for ODA to higher education, which subsidise the fees of foreign students in France, constitute a contribution to poverty reduction. It argues that perhaps France should consider giving higher weight to primary education in its development budget.

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A study on shock absorber schemes in African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) Countries

Projects - September 2010 to May 2011

The objective of the study is to assist the European Commission in designing a possible 2013 shock absorbing scheme for ACP, and possibly other developing countries vulnerable to exogenous shocks.

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