Dr Francis Teal
Deputy Director, CSAE
Curriculum Vitae, September 2011 (PDF file)
Biography
Francis Teal has been a Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) since 1996. From 2003 to 2007 he was the Oxford Director of the ESRC funded Global Poverty Research Group (GPRG). Before joining the Centre in 1991 he held positions in Tanzania at the Tanzania Investment Bank, in the UK at the National Institute of Economics and Social Research and the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London and in Australia at the Bureau of Agricultural Economics and the Australian National University. He has worked on a wide range of trade and development policy issues and published papers on both Africa and applied economic policy in the Journal of Public Economics, Economic Journal, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Development Studies and Economic Development and Cultural Change.
He is currently responsible for directing a programme of work at the CSAE funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on labour markets and agricultural productivity in Africa. He is also a member of the research team working on the outcomes of education funded by DFID (RECOUP).
Recent working papers reflecting these research interests include:
Paolo Falco, Andrew Kerr, Neil Rankin, Justin Sandefur, Francis Teal. The returns to formality and informality in urban Africa. CSAE Working Paper WPS/2010-03
Neil Rankin, Justin Sandefur, Francis Teal. Learning & earning in Africa: Where are the returns to education high? CSAE Working Paper WPS/2010-02
Nicholas Nsowah-Nuamah, Francis Teal, Moses Awoonor-Williams. Jobs, Skills and Incomes in Ghana: How was poverty halved? CSAE Working Paper WPS/2010-01