Research Interests
Development Economics, Environmental Economics, Agricultural Economics
Research Interests
Development Economics, Environmental Economics, Agricultural Economics
In progress
The Impact of Violence on Micro-Credit in Syria with Salvatore Di Falco and Jérémy Lucchetti
Civil Conflict and Non-Lethal Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa with Jérémy Lucchetti and Oumar Ba
Not published
Aspirations and Farmers Investment in Agricultural Inputs - sole author
Useful Codes!
Stata codes for the GDELT Project datasets <https://www.gdeltproject.org/>
The Google Drive folder contains Stata do files to clean and append GDELT Project datasets that record events on daily and monthly basis separately (with an example on Syria):
<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LgoOeCQSmHvhNwrELcXWkWg0__YJtnul?usp=sharing>
Conferences and Seminars
Global Learning Conference in Kigali - 2026
Just Cities Conference: Our Cities After in Amman - 2025
COP 29 in Baku - 2024
World Urban Forum in Cairo - 2024
The 20th Summer School in International and Development Economics in Tuscany - 2021
The Swiss Agriculture Economics PhD Seminars in Frick - 2020 and Geneva- 2021
Agroscope Symposium in Zurich- 2019
KwaZulu Natal, South Africa 2018 ©r.shakra