Lawrence Haddad
| Lawrence Haddad | |
|---|---|
| Born | Lawrence James Haddad 17 June 1959 Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Nationality | British |
| Institution | International Food Policy Research Institute University of Sussex |
| Field | Development economics |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Lawrence James Haddad (born 17 June 1959),[1] is a British economist whose main research interests are the intersection of poverty, food insecurity and malnutrition, including poverty dynamics, social capital, HIV/AIDS, social protection, agriculture and poverty, and women's empowerment.[2]
He is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and a Research Professor at the University of Sussex.
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Education and career
From 2004-2014 Lawrence Haddad was the director of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). He was also the UK’s representative on the Steering Committee of the High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) of the UN's Committee on World Food Security (CSF) which was established in 2009 with the aim of making the CSF more effective in research analysis.[3] He was also the President of the UK and Ireland's Development Studies Association, 2010-2012.
He completed his PhD in food research from Stanford University in 1988. Before joining IDS in 2004, Lawrence Haddad was Director of the Food Consumption and Nutrition Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).[4] Prior to this Lawrence Haddad was a lecturer in quantitative development economics at the University of Warwick. He has also been a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics.
Haddad's research focuses on a wide range of issues related to the well-being of the poor, including the design of policies and programs intended to reduce poverty and malnutrition, the impact of gender difference in access to resources on nutrition and poverty, the role of community participation in the performance of poverty programs, and the challenges rapid urbanization poses for the poor. Lawrence Haddad has published extensively on these issues.[4]
He is the co-Chair of the Global Nutrition Report
Media
Lawrence Haddad’s blog Development Horizons[5] is part of the Guardian’s Global Development Blogosphere[6] which he describes as “some unguarded reflections, thoughts, and ideas on international development”.
Selected bibliography
Books
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Journal articles
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World Bank working papers
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See also
References
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