Working paper: Thicker policy diagnostics
The central challenge for economic policy in a developing country is to sustain or raise rates of economic growth.
Stevan Lee
Stevan Lee has extensive in-country advisory experience, including a nine-year residency in African countries and in the Middle East. He has spent a large part of his career working with academics – getting academic work into a useful form for policy advice with the UK Department for International Development and the World Bank.
Latest work by Stevan Lee
Podcast: Covid in Kenya…an economic balancing act
*Join Policy in Pandemics host, Stevan Lee, as he explores the economic impact of Covid-19 in Kenya with economists Wangari Muikia and John Nyangi…*
Joining the dots in India: a ‘thicker’ base for policy reform
The central challenge for economic policy in a developing country is to sustain or raise rates of economic growth.
Covid-19 Modelling: Social protection for poverty mitigation and public health
Stevan Lee and Fred Merttens set out key insights revealed when modelling health, public health, and social protection interactions during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Development finance and the macro economic impact of Covid-19
New research highlights the need for additional multilateral finance coupled with impactful reform to accelerate post-pandemic recovery.
Making Special Drawing Rights work better for global development
How can we unlock aid finance to support low-income countries that have been hit the hardest by the Covid-19 pandemic?
Podcast: Covid in Bangladesh…what the government did - and didn’t do
In the first episode of the new series of our Policy in Pandemics podcast, Acting Chief Economist, Stevan Lee talks to Selim Raihan, Professor of Economics at the University of Dhaka and Executive Director at SANEM, about the economic impacts of the Covid-19 crisis in Bangladesh.
Podcast: Covid in Pakistan - financial consolidation vs. damage limitation
Who wins and who loses?
Time to gamble...on development?
International Development, Where Now? Our new podcast series - kicking off with guest Stefan Dercon, Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Oxford.