Researcher Profile - Patricia Justino
Patricia Justino
Institute of Development Studies
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9RE
email: p.justino@ids.ac.uk
Biography
Patricia Justino is a Fellow in the Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction Team at the Institute of Development Studies . She is the director of MICROCON, a new five-year research project funded by the European Union, and co-director of the Households in Conflict Network (www.hicn.org), funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Her main areas of specialisation are applied microeconomics and quantitative development economics. Her current research work focuses in the microeconomic analysis of the impact of violent socio-political conflict on household welfare. Other research work includes the measurement of inequality and poverty, the role of social security and redistribution on economic growth and welfare in developing countries and the impact of trade liberalisation and economic reforms on household income mobility in developing countries.
Projects
Project - Linking participatory survey approaches and quantitative me thods in the study of violence – part of 'Violence, Participation and Citizenship' Research Programme
Summary - This project will be in the form of a ‘roving economist’ to offer assistance to each of the groups on how to integrate comparable quantitative me thods in their research design
Latest Publications
Justino, P. and Verwimp, P., (2006), “Poverty Dynamics, Violent Conflict and Convergence in Rwanda”, HiCN Working Paper no. 16, Households in Conflict Network, Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, Brighton (http://www.hicn.org/papers/wp16.pdf).
Justino, P., (2006), “The Impact of Collective Action on Economic Development: Empirical Evidence from Kerala , India ”. World Development 34 (7) (forthcoming July).
Justino, P., (2006), “Social Security in Developing Countries: Myth or Necessity? Evidence from India ”. Journal of International Development 18: 1-16 (forthcoming)
Gottschalk, R. and Justino, P., (2005), Overcoming Inequality in Latin America : Issues and Challenges for the New Century , Routledge.
Justino, P. (2005), “Redistribution, Inequality and Political Conflict”. PRUS Working Paper no. 18, Department of Economics, University of Sussex , UK , 2004. Paper prepared for the American Economic Association meeting in January 2005 in Philadelphia , USA . (http://www.hicn.org/papers/wp05.pdf)
Justino, P. (2005), “Beyond HEPR: A Framework for an Integrated National System of Social Security in Vietnam ”, Policy Dialogue Paper 2005/1. Hanoi: UNDP Vietnam
