Ana Lucia Kassouf
PEP Research Fellow
Full Professor, University of Sao Paulo
Esalq-USP
Brazil
Research fellows
PEP Research Fellows are senior researchers selected, on a competitive basis, to contribute to key PEP research, training and policy activities. They all are developing country nationals and almost all continue to live and work in a developing country.
In 2020, a group of PEP Research Fellows began a series of studies investigating the participation of researchers from the Global South in development economics research, policy, and consulting activities. This research is ongoing.
The findings of the first six studies (conducted in 2020-21) inspired PEP’s Call to Action for greater participation of Southern Researchers in economic development debates. More than 80 leading economists from around the world support this initiative. We invite you to add your support by signing the Call and sharing it with your networks.
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Current fellows
Christian Arnault Emini
PEP Research Fellow, Research Fellow Representative, Resource Person - Macro/Modeling Group, Policy Outreach Advisor
Senior Lecturer, Université Yaoundé II
Senior Economic Adviser, Prime Minister's Office, Cameroon
Kibrom Abay
PEP Research Fellow
Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute
Ethiopia
Marcos Agurto
PEP Research Fellow, Resource Person - Experimental Group
Associate Professor,
Universidad de Piura,
Peru
Vaqar Ahmed
PEP Research Fellow
Joint Executive Director,
Sustainable Development Policy Institute,
Pakistan
Veronica Amarante
PEP Research Fellow, Gender Commitee
Professor,
Instituto de Economía,
Universidad de la República,
Uruguay
Nisha Arunatilake
PEP Research Fellow, Research Fellow Representative, and Gender Committee
Director of Research,
Institute of Policy Studies,
Sri Lanka
John Ataguba
PEP Research Fellow
Associate Professor,
University of Cape Town,
South Africa
Nadia Belhaj Hassine
PEP Research Fellow
Senior Economist,
World Bank,
Tunisia
Ronelle Burger
PEP Research Fellow
Professor,
Stellenbosch University,
South Africa
Guillermo Cruces
PEP Research Fellow, Resource Person - Experimental Group
Deputy director, CEDLAS,
Universidad Nacional de La Plata,
Argentina
Dileni Gunewardena
PEP Research Fellow, Resource Person - Micro Group, Gender Committee
Professor,
University of Peradeniya,
Sri Lanka
Ramos Mabugu
PEP Research Fellow
Professor,
Sol Plaatje University,
South Africa
Marjan Petreski
PEP Research Fellow
Professor of Economics & Statistics,
University American College Skopje,
North Macedonia
Lucas Ronconi
PEP Research Fellow, Policy Outreach Committee
Professor of Economics,
Universidad de Buenos Aires-CONICET,
Argentina
Agnès Zabsonré
PEP Research Fellow
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics and Management,
Université Nazi Boni,
Burkina Faso
Belal Nabeel Fallah
PEP Research Fellow
Associate Professor,
Palestine Polytechnic University,
Palestine
Asiya Maskaeva
PEP Research Fellow
Senior Lecturer,
Department of Economics
University of Dodoma,
Tanzania
Nkechi S. Owoo
PEP Research Fellow
Senior Lecturer
University of Ghana,
Accra
Brais Alvarez Pereira
PEP Research Fellow
Director,
Bissau Economics Lab,
Guinea-Bissau
Blagica Petreski
PEP Research Fellow
Chief economist,
Finance Think,
Macedonia
Jorge Pablo Puig
PEP Research Fellow
Full time professor,
Universidad Nacional de La Plata,
Argentina
Filipe Lage de Sousa
PEP Research Fellow
Professor,
Universidade Federal Fluminense,
Economics Department,
Brazil
Eleni Yitbarek
PEP Research Fellow
Post-doctoral research fellow,
University of Pretori,
South Africa
Former PEP Research Fellows
Adeola Adenikinju, Professor, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Mohamed Ayadi, Professor, University of Tunis, Tunisia
Mitzie Irene Conchada, Associate Professor, School of Economics, De La Salle University, Philippines
Jorge Davalos, Director of Research, Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP), Peru
Abdel-Rahmen El Lagha, Assistant Professor, University of Tunis, Tunisia
Carmen Estrades, Associate Professor, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
Werner Hernani-Limarino, Co-founder & Researcher, Fundacion ARU, Bolivia
Diana Kruger, Associate Professor, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Chile
Lulit Mitik Beyene, Consultant on Economy-wide Impact Analysis, World Bank, Ethiopia/United States
Junette Perez, Associate Professor, De La Salle University, Philippines
Abdoulaye Seck, Professor, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal
Fabio Soares, Researcher, International Policy Centre, for Inclusive Growth, Brazil
2020-2021 PEP Fellow Publication Awards
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2020-2021 awards for the best journal publications authored by a PEP Research Fellow (three prizes) and the most downloaded PEP working paper co-authored by a PEP Research Fellow (one prize).
These prizes aim to support PEP's Research Fellow community and recognize their achievements. They reward the efforts of the Fellows to promote Southern-led research and offer an alternative to the high-profile Northern-based, global economic development research centres and think tanks.
The PEP Program Committee assessed the applications for "best publications" based on the PEP journal classification, SCImago Journal Rank (SJR - a measure of the scientific influence or impact of the journal), as well as the regional, gender and program balance.
The Program Committee was impressed by the high quality of all submissions and the particularly outstanding publications of the four prize winners:
Best journal publications
First prize: Guillermo Cruces
For M. Bergolo, G. Cruces, The anatomy of behavioral responses to social assistance when informal employment is high, Journal of Public Economics, Volume 193, 2021.
Second prize: Kibrom Abay
For Kibrom A. Abay, Gashaw T. Abate, Christopher B. Barrett, Tanguy Bernard, Correlated non-classical measurement errors, 'Second best' policy inference, and the inverse size-productivity relationship in agriculture, Journal of Development Economics, Volume 139, 2019, Pages 171-184.
Third prize: Ronelle Burger
For Canh Thien Dang, Ronelle Burger, and Trudy Owens, Do Better-Performing Nongovernmental Organizations Report More Accurately? Evidence from Financial Accounts in Uganda, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Volume 69, Number 2, 2021
Most downloaded PEP working paper co-authored by a Research Fellow
- Lulit Mitik for Oluwasola Emmanuel Omoju, Lulit Mitik Beyene, Emily Edoisa Ikhide, STEPHEN KELECHI DIMNWOBI, Augustina Ehimare, Assessing the Macroeconomic Impacts of Financing Options for Renewable-Energy Policy in Nigeria: Insights from a CGE Model, PEP working paper 2020-01.
We thank Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) for providing funding that made this competition possible. We hope to repeat similar competitions in the future, subject to the availability of funding.
