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Joachim De Weerdt started off in Kagera while doing field work for his PhD 1999-2001. He was then studying social networks and informal insurance in the region. After completing his PhD he returned to Kagera to set up EDI. Joachim and business partner, Louise Broadbent, set up a two-person office at a friend's house in Bukoba. Now, Joachim parks his motorbikes in the dusty old office and EDI has become Tanzania's number one survey house, employing over 60 members of staff.
As Research Director, Joachim established EDI's survey arm, the preferred partner for organisations that are serious about the quality of their survey work in Tanzania. EDI's ground troops have conducted interviews with over 100,000 households on dozens of different survey assignments. The foundation of all this work is the premise that poverty research should adhere to rigorous academic standards if it is to lead to policies that effectively combat poverty. EDI strives to deliver work that is of sufficient standard to be published in top peer-reviewed academic journals.
In 2007 EDI embraced electronic surveys and as a spin-off set up CWEST. This electronic survey toolkit is available to clients worldwide. A recording of Joachim's presentation on electronic surveys at a World Bank seminar in January 2009 is available on-line.
PAPERS BY JOACHIM:
Peer Reviewed Publications :
TITLE |
CO-AUTHORS | JOURNAL (& Impact Factor if non-economic) |
YEAR |
| Moving out of Poverty in Tanzania: Evidence from Kagera | none | Journal of Development Studies forthcoming |
2009 |
| The Intergenerational Impact of the African Orphans Crisis: A Cohort Study from an HIV/AIDS Affected Area download pdf |
Kathleen Beegle Stefan Dercon |
International Journal of Epidemiology (IF 5.15) Vol. 38(2):561-568 |
2009 |
Methodological Issues in the Study of the Socioeconomic Consequences of HIV/AIDS download pdf |
Kathleen Beegle | AIDS (IF 5.84) Vol. 22, Suppl 1: S89-94 |
2008 |
Adult Mortality and Economic Growth in the Age of HIV/AIDS |
Kathleen Beegle Stefan Dercon |
Economic Development and Cultural Change Vol. 56, No. 2: 299-326 |
2008 |
Field Notes on Administering Shock Modules |
None | Journal of International Development Vol. 20: 398-402 |
2008 |
| Orphanhood and Human Capital Destruction: Is there Persistence into Adulthood? | Kathleen Beegle Stefan Dercon |
Demography (IF 3.04) forthcoming |
2008 |
| Risk-sharing Networks and Insurance Against Illness |
Stefan Dercon |
Journal of Development Economics Vol. 81, No. 2: 337-356 |
2006 |
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Orphanhood and the Long-run Impact on Children
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Kathleen Beegle Stefan Dercon |
American Journal of Agricultural Economics Vol. 88, No. 5: 1266-1277 |
2006 |
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Group-based Funeral Insurance in Ethiopia and Tanzania
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Stefan Dercon Tessa Bold Alula Pankhurst |
World Development Vol. 34, No. 4: 685-703 |
2006 |
| Membership-based Indigenous Insurance Associations | Stefan Dercon Tessa Bold Alula Pankhurst |
Routledge Download Brief Volume Overview View/buy book at routledge |
2006 |
Risk-sharing and Endogenous Network Formation |
none | Oxford University Press The same article appeared originally in 2002 as a WIDER working paper - download. |
2004 |
On-going work:
| TITLE | CO-AUTHORS | EDITOR AND PUBLISHER | YEAR |
| Social Identity and the Formation of Health Insurance Networks download pdf |
Marcel Fafchamps | EDI and University of Oxford | 2008 |
Migration and Economic Mobility in Tanzania: Evidence from a Tracking Survey Also features as a contribution to Dilip Ratha's "People Move" Blog |
Kathleen Beegle Stefan Dercon |
Policy Research Working Paper, WPS 4798, World Bank, Washington DC. |
2008 |
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Disentangling Networks: Defining and Analysing Cohesive Subgroups |
Dirk Van de gaer |
University of Ghent & EDI |
2006 |
Commissioned Reports and Working Paper Series:
| TITLE | CO-AUTHORS | Organisation/Series | YEAR |
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Measuring Risk Perceptions: why and how
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none |
World Bank Social Protection Discussion Papers Series No. 0533 |
2005 |
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Extending Insurance? Funeral Associations in Ethiopia and Tanzania
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Stefan Dercon Tessa Bold Alula Pankhurst |
OECD Development Centre Working Paper Series No. 240 |
2004 |
CWIQ reports (for dozens of Tanzanian districts - for a complete list of reports click here) |
various | Tanzania's Prime Minister's Office - Regional Administration and Local Goverance, Netherlands Embassy and SNV |
ongoing |
Adoption of Superior Banana Varieties in the Kagera Region: accomplishments and constraints |
none | Belgian Government (BTC) |
2003 |
| Community Organisations in Rural Tanzania: a Case Study of the Community of Nyakatoke | none | University of Leuven & EDI | 2002 |
| Poverty in Tanzania | none |
Belgian Government Policy Preparatory Report, BVO/97.2, DGIS |
1997 |
