PEP Research Fellow
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Management, Université Nazi Boni, Burkina Faso
Ms. Zabsonré is currently an Assistant Professor of Economics at Université Nazi Boni, Burkina Faso and a Research Fellow at PEP. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Université Laval, Canada and a Master’s degree in Statistics from INSEA, Morocco. Her research interests include welfare and poverty analysis, mineral resources and local public goods provision.
Previouly, she has worked as a research consultant at UNDP and the World Bank and as a statistician at the National Statistical Institute of Burkina Faso where she led the 2003 living standards measurement survey.
She was the recipient of the Governor General’s academic medal in 2012 at Université Laval, and has received the PEP best practice awards. Her papers have been published in some international journals, including World Development, Journal of Public Economics and Canadian Journal of Economics.
Fields of specialization
Poverty and inequality
Labour markets and employment
