Selected Recent Academic Publications

• The Belt and Road Initiative : Reshaping Economic Geography in Central Asia?  Journal of Development Economics, Volume 144, 2020, with Mathilde Lebrand and Anthony Venables. 

• The Brasília experiment: The heterogeneous impact of road access on spatial development in Brazil World Development, Volume 127, 2020, with Stéphane Straub.  Discussed in El País. 

• The efficiency of land-use in a developing city: traditional vs modern tenure systems in Kampala, Uganda  Journal of Urban Economics, September 2020, with Anthony Venables. Audio of a presentation in March 2018 (in French). 

• Toward Great Dhaka : A New Urban Development Paradigm Eastward, Directions in Development;. Washington, DC: World Bank 2018, with Yue Li, Hossain Zillur Rahman, Martin Rama, and Anthony J Venables

• Life in a slum : understanding living conditions in Nairobi's slums across time and space (2017) with Piero Montebruno and Tanner Regan Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 33, Issue 3, 1 July 2017, Pages 496–520