Time: 13:00-15:00 (UK Time), Wednesday, 1 December 2021
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Presenter: Professor Furio Camillo Rosati, University of Tor Vergata, Rome
Chair: Professor Victor Murinde, SOAS University of London
Co-Chair: Professor Pasquale Scaramozzino, SOAS University of London
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Abstract
Many refugees remain for a long time in host countries and to assess their impact on the welfare of local communities is essential for policy design. We focus on Uganda, a country that hosts the largest number of refugees in SSA. We analyse whether and to what extent the proximity to refugees increases the welfare and the level of economic activity of hosting-community households by generating incentives for economic exchanges. To measure the potential of interaction we use the distance between hosting-community and refugee households and we test the robustness of our results by implementing different approaches. We conclude that, beyond the possible effects due to the benefits provided by the agencies caring for refugees, the direct interaction between them and the hosts generates an increase in both the level and the types of the economic activity carried out by the hosts. However, the market creation is limited to a radius of approximately 5 kilometres.
Presenter
Furio Camillo Rosati is Professor of Public Finance in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tor Vergata, Rome. He received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Rome, Faculty of Law (1976), an MSc in Economics (1979) and a PhD in Economics (1984), both from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
In addition to his position at the University of Tor Vergata, Professor Rosati is currently the Director of CEIS, Center for Economic for Economic and International Studies at University of Rome “Tor Vergata” and the Director of Research, The Italian Center for International Development. He has published in leading academic journals.
He has been the Director for "Understanding Children's Work" (UCW), a research initiative on child labor involving the International Labor Organization, UNICEF and the World Bank.