Wondimagegn Mesfin Tesfaye
| Education | Ph.D., Innovation, Economics, and Governance for Development, United Nations University & Maastricht University (UNU-MERIT), the Netherlands (In Progress) |
| STAARS Research | Climate-smart Innovations and Rural Poverty in Ethopia: Exploring Impacts and Pathways(with Garrick Blalock) |
| CV | PDF File |
| Contact | tesfaye@merit.unu.edu |
| Additional Links | “…An exceptional opportunity to promote up-and-coming African researchers” |
Wondimagegn Tesfaye is currently a Poverty Economist (ET Consultant) at the World Bank, Ethiopia Country Office. He has a PhD in Economics from Maastricht University and the United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), in the Netherlands. He received his MSc degree in Agricultural Economics from Haramaya University, Ethiopia, where he has served as a Lecturer. His research interest revolves around development economics with a particular focus on areas including agricultural innovations, sustainable intensification, food and nutrition security, poverty dynamics and resilience, agricultural households’ decision making, social protection, and distributional impacts of policies and programs. Wondimagegn has a strong interest in quantitative methods particularly applied Microeconometrics, impact evaluation, mathematical programming, and fiscal incidence analysis.
