Bilal Siddiqi

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

CSAE and St Antony's College

Biography

Bilal Siddiqi is a Ph.D. candidate in economics, based at the Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford University. His research focuses on formal and customary legal systems, dispute resolution, and public service delivery in post-conflict settings. He is currently implementing a range of field experiments in Sierra Leone and Liberia, including a national randomized controlled trial of community monitoring and non-financial awards in Sierra Leone's health sector; experimental evaluations of paralegal programs in Liberia and Sierra Leone; and a randomized trial of a community reconciliation program in Sierra Leone. Bilal was previously based at the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC, where he worked on aid delivery, global health, and education governance. He holds an M.Phil. in economics from Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.