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Justin Sandefur

Center for Global Development
jsandefur@cgdev.org

Justin Sandefur is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development (CGD). Prior to joining CGD, he spent two years as an adviser to Tanzania's national statistics office and worked as a research officer at Oxford University's Centre for the Study of African Economies. He holds a D.Phil. in economics from Oxford University. His research focusses on a wide range of topics, including education, poverty reduction, legal reform, and democratic governance.

Posts by Justin Sandefur

The Great Indian Poverty Debate, 2.0

In the third post of a six part series on estimating poverty in India, Justin Sandefur considers the approaches employed for projections of poverty estimates since 2011-12 – the last year for which ...

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Everything you know about cross-country convergence is (now) wrong

A quarter-century after the empirical growth literature set out to explain why poor countries are not catching up with rich ones, cross-country regressions have mercifully gone out of fashion. In this...

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Disintermediating the State: Would a universal basic income reduce poverty more than targeted programmes?

Commenting on the discussion of the universal basic income in India’s Economic Survey 2016-17, Justin Sandefur contends that a modest version of UBI could potentially save money and shift expenditu...

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