Apl. Prof. Dr. Jann Lay

Short CV

10/2015 - 10/2018: Acting Director of the GIGA Institute of African Affairs
Since 2015: Apl. Prof. at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Since 2009: Head of GIGA Research Programme 3 "Socio-Economic Development in the Context of Globalisation"
2009 - 2015: Junior-Professor at the Georg-August-University, Göttingen
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
Education: 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’; Master in Economics (Diplom-Volkswirt) at Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany; Undergraduate Studies at Otto-Friedrich-University, Bamberg, Germany; University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain; University of California, Los Angeles, United States

Current Research

Informal entrepreneurship in developing countries
Structural change and its poverty and distributional implications
Natural resources, economic development and conflict

Countries and Regions

Africa

Research Programme

Growth and Development

Publications

World Development | 2021

Large-Scale Farms in Zambia: Locational Patterns and Spillovers to Smallholder Agriculture

In light of the surge in large‐scale farms in developing countries, concerns have been raised that smallholders may be negatively affected. There is, however, very little evidence beyond case studies to support these claims. Drawing on nationally representative household data sets and an inventory of large‐scale farms in Zambia, this study investigates the relationship between large‐scale farms and smallholders.