Dr Patricia Justino

Patricia Justino is a Fellow with the Poverty and Social Policy Team at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. Her areas of specialisation are applied microeconomics and quantitative development economics. Patricia has worked on the determinants of civil unrest in India. Other research work includes the measurement of monetary and non-monetary dimensions of inequality and their effects on social development and economic growth in Brazil and India, the measurement and modelling of poverty (static and dynamic) (India, Brazil and Vietnam), the role of social security and redistribution on economic growth (India and Vietnam) and welfare and the impact of trade liberalisation and trade reforms on household income mobility (Vietnam). She has been involved in several policy-oriented projects for the World Bank, UNDP, the UK Department for International Development and the Minority Rights Group International. Patricia is a Research Affiliate of the Poverty Research Unit at Sussex, where she was a British Academy Research Fellow; and the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin).

Poverty; Multidimensional inequality; Economics of conflict; Redistribution; Trade liberalisation; India; Vietnam; Brazil.

On the Links Between Violent Conflict and Chronic Poverty: How Much Do We Really Know?
CPRC Working Paper 61, Chronic Poverty Research Centre, University of Manchester (July 2006)
HiCN Working Paper 18 Download

Poverty Dynamics, Violent Conflict and Convergence in Rwanda  with Verwimp, P.
HiCN Working Paper 16 (2006)

The Impact of Collective Action on Economic Development: Empirical Evidence from Kerala, India
World Development 34(7): 1254-1270 (2006)

Social Security in Developing Countries: Myth or Necessity? Evidence from India
Journal of International Development 18: 1-16 (2006)

Overcoming Inequality in Latin America: Issues and Challenges for the New Century  with Gottschalk, R.
Routledge, London (2005)

Beyond HEPR: A Framework for an Integrated National System of Social Security in Viet Nam
UNDP Viet Nam Policy Dialogue Paper 2005/1 (2005)

Redistribution, Inequality and Political Conflict
HiCN Working Paper 05 (2004)

Multidimensional Inequality: An Empirical Application to Brazil  with Litchfield, J. and Niimi, Y.
Poverty Research Unit at Sussex Working Paper 24 (2004)

Empirical Applications of Multidimensional Inequality Analysis
Poverty Research Unit at Sussex Working Paper 23 (2005)

Welfare in Vietnam During the 1990s: Poverty, Inequality and Poverty Dynamics  with Litchfield, J.
Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, volume 9 (2), p.145-169 (2004)

Social Security in Developing Countries: Myth or Necessity? Evidence from India
Poverty Research Unit at Sussex Working Paper 20 (2003)

Two Faces of Participation: The Story of Kerala
Poverty Research Unit at Sussex Working Paper 18 (2003)

Poverty Dynamics in Rural Vietnam: Winners and Losers During Reform  with Litchfield, J.
Poverty Research Unit at Sussex Working Paper 10 (2002)

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