Jun.-Prof. Dr. Jann Lay

GIGA Institute of Latin American Studies
Neuer Jungfernstieg 21
20354 Hamburg
Germany

Phone: +49 (0)40 - 428 25-763
Fax: +49 (0)40 - 428 25-547

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Biographical data:

Born in 1974
2002-2006 Doctoral Studies at the Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany; Dr.rer.pol. (summa cum laude); Dissertation on ‘Evaluating the Poverty and Distributional Impact of Economic Policies and External Shocks Combining Macro and Micro Approaches: Three Case Studies from Latin America’; 1999-2002 Master in Economics (Diplom-Volkswirt) at Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany; 1995-1998 Undergraduate Studies at Otto-Friedrich-University, Bamberg, Germany; University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain; University of California, Los Angeles, United States
Professional career:

Since 2009:	Junior-Professor at the Georg-August-University, Göttingen, and Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of Latin American Studies, Hamburg
2007-2009:	Head of Research Area ‘Poverty Reduction, Equity, and Development’, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Germany
2002-2006:	Research Fellow, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Germany
Since 2002:	Various Consultancies for The World Bank, the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) and the OECD Development Centre (details of selected projects below)
2002:	Consultant, OECD Development Centre, Paris, France
2001:	Research Assistant, Instituto de Investigaciones Socio-Económicas, La Paz, Boliva

2009 ‘Globalization and Development’, Georg-August-University, Göttingen
2004-2007 Seminar ‘International Economic Relations and Development Economics’, Kiel University (together with Prof. Langhammer)
2006 Workshop on ‘The Use of Household Survey Data and Microsimulation Techniques for Policy Analysis’, GTAP conference, Addis Ababa; post-conference seminar

Unlocking potential: Tackling Economic, Institutional and Social Constraints of Informal Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa, November 2009 - November 2011 (Weltbank and IZA)
The Complementarity of MDG Achievements: The Case of Child Mortality and Female Education (The World Bank)

Selected Concluded Projects:

2007-2008 Trade and Gender in Sub-Saharan Africa: The cases of Uganda and Ghana (Weltbank)
2007-2008 Resource Wealth – a Risk Factor? The Role of Context Conditions in Explaining the Resource-conflict link in the Developing World (DFG)
2006-2008 Driving Forces of Rural Poverty and Distributional Change in Sub-Saharan Africa (DFG)
2005 Impact of Commodity Price Changes on Rural Households: The Case of Uganda (Weltbank)
2004-2005 Operationalizing Pro-poor Growth: Bolivia (AFD, DFID, GTZ, KfW, Weltbank)
2004-2005 The Poverty Impact of the Doha Round in Brazil (Weltbank)
2002 The Poverty Impact of Trade Liberalization in Colombia (OECD Development Centre)

2009 (with M. Basedau): Resource curse or rentier peace? The ambiguous effects of oil wealth and oil dependence on violent conflict. Journal of Peace Research, forthcoming.

2009 (with U.Narloch and T. Omar Mahmoud): Shocks, Structural Change, and the Patterns of Income Diversification in Burkina Faso. AERC-Cornell conference issue, African Development Review, forthcoming.

2009: The Complementarity of MDG Achievements: The Case of Child Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa, in: World Bank Policy Research Paper (Full article).

2008: Few Opportunities, Much Desperation: The Dichotomy of Non-agricultural Activities and Inequality in Western Kenya (G. Michuki M'Mukaria und T. Omar Mahmoud) World Development, 36 (12), 2713-2732.

2008 (with R. Thiele and M. Wiebelt): Resource Booms, Inequality, and Poverty: The Case of Gas in Bolivia. Review of Income and Wealth, 54 (3), 407-437, 2008.

2008 (with R. Thiele and M. Wiebelt): Shocks, Policy Reforms, and Pro-Poor Growth in Bolivia: A Simulation Analysis. Review of Development Economics, 12(1), 37-56, 2008.

2008 (with M. Bussolo and D. van der Mensbrugghe): A micro-macro assessment of the poverty impacts of the Doha and FTAA agenda for Latin America. In: F. Bourguignon, L. Pereira da Silva und M. Bussolo (eds), The Impact of Macroeconomic Policies on Poverty and Income Distribution Macro-Micro Evaluation Techniques and Tools. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

2007 (with M. Bussolo, O. Godart and R. Thiele): The Impact of Commodity Price Changes on Rural Households : The Case of Coffee in Uganda. Agricultural Economics, 27 (2/3), 2007.

2007: Poverty and Distributional Impact of Economic Policies and External Shocks. Three Case Studies from Latin America Combining Macro and Micro Approaches. Göttingen Studies in Development Economics (ed H. Sautter und S. Klasen), Vol. 18. Peter Lang. Frankfurt, 2007.

2007 (with S. Klasen, M. Grosse, J. Spatz, R. Thiele, and M. Wiebelt): Analyzing Pro-Poor Growth in Bolivia: Addressing Data Gaps and Modeling Policy Choices. In: M. Grimm, A. McKay und S. Klasen (eds), Determinants of Pro-Poor Growth: Analytical Issues and Findings from 14 Country Case Studies. Palgrave-McMillan, 2007.

2006 (with M. Bussolo and D. van der Mensbrugghe): Structural Change and Poverty Reduction in Brazil: The Impact of the Doha Round. In: T.W. Hertel und L.A. Winters (eds), Poverty and the WTO: Impacts of the Doha Development Agenda. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 (also published as World Bank Policy Research Paper 3833, 2006).

2005 (with M. Bussolo): Globalisation and Poverty Changes in Colombia. In: M. Bussolo und J. Round (eds): Globalisation and Poverty - Channels and Policy Responses. Routledge, 2005.

2005 (with M. Basedau): Conceptualising the “Resource Curse” in Sub-Saharan Africa: Affected Areas and Transmission Channels. In: M. Basedau und A. Mehler (eds), Resource Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa. Africa Studies Vol. 14. Hamburg 2005

2005 (with R. Kappel and S. Steiner): Uganda: No More Pro-Poor Growth? Development Policy Review, 23 (1), 2005.

2004 (with T. Omar Mahmoud): Bananas, Oil, and Development: Examining the Resource Curse and Its Transmission Channels by Resource Type, Kiel Working Paper 1218, Kiel, 2004.