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Job Title: Visiting Fellow Contact Details: Centre Léa-Roback,Direction de la Santé Publique,1301 rue Sherbrooke Est,Montréal, QC, H2L 1M3,Canada Yele.maweki.batana@umontreal.ca |
Biography
Yélé Maweki Batana holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Université Laval, Québec, Canada, since 2008. Member of the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), he spent five years in teaching and research at Université de Lomé, Togo. He has also been a visiting fellow at OPHI during summer 2008. His main areas include welfare economics, development, econometrics and macroeconomics. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Université de Montréal, where he is working on health economics.
Areas of Expertise
Public Economics, Development Economics, Econometrics, Health Inequalities
Education
2008 Ph.D. in Economics, Université Laval, Canada
2004 M.A. in Economics, Université de Montréal, Canada
1997 DEA in Macroeconomics, Université de Ouagadougou, Burkina
Selected Publications
“Multidimensional Measurement of Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa”, OPHI Working Paper no 13.
“Multidimensional Poverty Dominance: Statistical Inference and an Application to West Africa”, (with Jean-Yves Duclos), CIRPÉE Working Paper 08-08.
“Analysis of the Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment Flows in WAEMU Countries”, African Journal of Economic Policy, Vol. 11, No 2, 2004.
