Espen Villanger
Current projects
Jobs Network
Education for sustainable job creation
Completed projects
Assisting Regional Universities in Sudan (ARUS)
Women in the developmental state: female employment and empowerment
Tanzania as a Future Petro-State: Prospects and Challenges
ARUSS: Assisting regional universities in Sudan and South Sudan
Ethiopian Flower Farm Employment Project
Evaluation of the Norwegian Aid Administration's Systems & Practices
Poverty traps in industries with low knowledge- and investment barriers
Improving the Integrated Rural Development Projects in Western Ethiopia
Accounting for Poverty Reduction in Norwegian Development Aid to Mozambique
A review of Norwegian evaluations
Arab foreign aid
Poverty monitoring and macroeconomic advice in Ethiopia
Bonded Labor in Nepal
Trade policy and poverty: A review
The effects of post-war aid
Poverty monitoring Ethiopia - ICR ESRDF
Development aid - a fresh look
Multialteral aid institutions and strategic donor behavior
Social development, FDI, and domestic investment
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Economist working on violence against women, ethnic conflict, job creation, private sector development and poverty reduction.
Villanger is the Director at CMI. He has a long track record in impact evaluation and causal analysis in development. Villanger has worked on rigorous evaluations of interventions to reduce poverty, create jobs, empower women and efforts against intimate partner violence. He has published in journals such as the Journal of Human Resources, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Politics and the European Economc Review.
Villanger has been a team leader for a range of quantitative and qualitative evaluations and has several contributions to the aid effectiveness debate. Interested in the documentation of results of development efforts, Villanger has participated in several studies evaluating foreign aid systems. His geographical focus is on the poorest countries in the world, and has worked in Ethiopia, Sudan, Mozambique, Uganda, Tanzania, Namibia and Nepal.
He holds a Ph.D. from the Norwegian School of Economics, and has taught development economics at the University of Bergen. Moreover, he worked as a Senior Economist for the World Bank in the Ethiopia Country Office from 2009 to 2012.