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Stephanie Levy is a development economist with expertise in social protection and poverty reduction policies in Africa and Asia. She teaches at LSE and conducts research at IFPRI on the general equilibrium effects of gender-based interventions and Covid-19 lockdowns.
Stephanie is a development economist with over 15 years of experience in rural development and poverty reduction policies in Africa and South-East Asia. Stephanie has an extensive experience of modeling and policy analysis using simulation tools and quantitative analysis methods.
Stephanie Levy. Published: February 2021. Department of International Development. London School of Economics and Political Science. Houghton Street. London. WC2A 2AE UK. Tel: +44 (020) 7955 7425/6252. Fax: +44 (020) 7955-6844. Email: s.levy@lse.ac.uk. Website: www.lse.ac.uk/InternationalDevelopment.
- Aid, Like Oil, Can Distort Local Markets
- Accounting For Local Market’S Capacity and Regional Trade
- Regulation Is Needed to Protect Vulnerable Populations
A large body of evidence has been established for two decades around the distortions that large aid flows could generate. So called ‘Dutch Disease’ effects, involving increases in real exchange rates, domestic inflation and economic growth slowdown have been well documented and analysed by economists. So much so, that aid has been compared to oil(C...
So research and existing evidence on both large aid flows and cash transfers led us to question the potential economic impact of the migrant crisis on hosting countries if aid agreements are kept in their current forms. It may be the case that the local capacity to absorb both large humanitarian aid flows and CTs is better among Middle East & North...
Working permits and special trade zones would both need to be regulated and closely supervised, to protect a highly vulnerable refugee labour force from exploitation and abuse. Previous experience of Qualified Industrial Zones (QIZ) agreements between the US and Middle Eastern countries led to appalling working conditionsfor migrant workers in the ...
Dr Stephanie Levy is visiting the LSE Department of International Development as a Research Fellow. She is a development economist with over 15 years of experience in rural development and poverty reduction policies in Africa and South-East Asia.
Stephanie Levy is a Nonresident Fellow with the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit, and is working in an outposted capacity. Foresight and Policy Modeling. Publications;
Dr. Stephanie Levy is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Hunter College, a faculty member at the CUNY Graduate Center Department of Anthropology and a core faculty member of the New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology.
