Dr Christopher S Adam

New Resources

Market Integration and Border Effects in Eastern Africa, CSAE working paper
The economics of the Arab Spring, CSAE working paper
Optimal public investment, growth, and consumption: Evidence from African countries, CSAE working paper
Borders that Divide: Education and Religion in Ghana and Togo since Colonial Times, CSAE working paper
CSAE Newsletter 05, Autumn 2011
Political Origins of Financial Structure, CSAE working paper
Insurance products for the poor should not be poor products, iiG Briefing Paper

Research Associate, CSAE
University Lecturer in Development Economics
Fellow of St Cross College.

Personal Faculty web page with link to further information

Biography

Christopher Adam studied economics at St Andrews University and Oxford. Following two years as an ODI Fellow in the Ministry of Finance in Swaziland (1987-89) he returned to Oxford to take a D.Phil. in Economics. In 1992 he became a Research Officer at CSAE before being appointed to his current position in 1995. He a co-editor of the Journal of African Economies, Professeur Invité and CERDI, Université d’Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, and occasional External Macroeconomic Adviser to the Policy Division on DFID.

His research covers a range of issues in the macroeconomics and political economy of of low-income economies, principally those of Sub-Saharan Africa. Please see the links above for more details.