John Cockburn

John Cockburn is Co-director of the Poverty and Economic Policy (PEP) research network and Professor at Laval University in Québec. He completed a PhD at Oxford University (Nuffield College and the Centre for the Study of African Economies) in 2001 on child labour and schooling in rural Ethiopia and the poverty effects of trade liberalisation in Nepal. His areas of specialiSation include child poverty, macro-micro modeling and trade policy analysis. He has been providing training and technical support to developing country researchers throughout the developing world since 1990 and is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Microsimulations.