Africa

Denmark

Researcher

Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen

spo@cdr.dk

Centre for Development Research
1610 Copenhagen V
Denmark

Kenya ; Tanzania

Master's with Honors in International Relations - International Development from the University of Chicago in 1993/94.

PhD programme at the School of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia.

Interests include agricultural reforms, structural adjustment, rural livelihoods, and agrarian change in Africa.

My Master's thesis on comparative agricultural policy and performance in Kenya and Tanzania won the 1994 University of Chicago Morton Kaplan Prize.

"Farmers and Markets: Policy Reform, Rural Livelihoods and Agrarian Change in Tanzania (1985-1996)."

Teach economic analysis of development at Duke University, a Master's course covering policy issues in various fields, including population, agriculture, financial and fiscal policy, international trade, governance, and the role of the state in development.

I have also taught courses on African Politics and African Civilization for the departments of Political Science and African Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill.

"Fast Crops, Fast Cash: Market Liberalization and Rural Livelihoods in
Songea and Morogoro Rural Districts, Tanzania" Canadian Journal of African
Studies, (forthcoming 1999)

"Trading Images: Discourse and Statistical Evidence on Agricultural
Adjustment in Tanzania (1986-1995)" in P. Forster and S. Maghimbi (eds.)
Agrarian Economy, State and Society in Contemporary Tanzania, Ashgate:
Aldershot (forthcoming 1998).

"Get Your Cash Fast: Rural Households' Adaptations to Liberalized
Agricultural Markets in Two Tanzanian Districts" presented at the African
Studies Association Conference, Columbus, Ohio (13-16 November 1997).

"Free to Remain Poor? Liberalization and Rural Poverty in Tanzania"
presented at the Workshop on Poverty Alleviation, Sokoine University of
Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania (25-28 March 1996), in Proceedings of the
1996 Sokoine University Workshop on Poverty Alleviation, Sokoine University
Press: Morogoro (1997).

"Briefing: The Tanzania 1995 Elections" Review of African Political
Economy, No. 67 (1996), co-author with Lisa Richey.

"The World Bank and 'Adjustment in Africa'" Review of African Political
Economy, No. 66, pp. 539-558 (1995).

"Structural Adjustment Programs and Agricultural Performance: Beyond the
Policy Factor. Lessons from Kenya and Tanzania" M.A. thesis, University of
Chicago (1994).

"Project Evaluation: Theory and Practice in the United Nations System"
Laurea Dissertation, University of Padua (1993).

Tanzania ; agriculture ; agricultural reforms ; structural adjustment ; rural livelihoods ; ...