Dr Richard Palmer Jones
| Job Title | Contact | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Research Fellow |
R dot Palmer-jones at uea dot ac dot uk
Tel: +44 (0)1603 59 3383 |
Arts 1.19 |
Biography
You may be interested in my web pages - where you can see recent research , and teaching.
Currently I am working on impact assessment, linked to supervision of Maren Duvendack's recently completed thesis 'Smoke and Mirrors: Evidence from Microfinance Impact Evaluations in India and Bangladesh' (2010). The thesis identifies borrowing from multiple sources as a neglected feature of quantitative evaluations of the impacts of microfinance and applies Propensity Score Matching and sensitivity analysis to show that the evidence of impacts of microfinance on well-being in two iconic studies (on SEWA Bank by Chen, 1999, and on Grameen Bank, BRAC and the BRDB in Bangladesh by Pitt and Khandker, 1998) is not robust.
I am participating in an Impact Evaluation of the Mae Lao Irrigation Improvment Project with the Centre for Project and Policy Evaluation of the Office of Agricultural Economics, Government of Thailand, funded by 3ie. I am leading the design of a new Master of Science in Impact Evaluation for Developmentand a Short Course in Impact Evaluation for Evidence Based Policy in Development (with Maren Duvendack and Ben D'Exelle). I have been reviewer for 3ie Open Windows and am peer advisor on two 3ie funded projects.
I recently participated in a DFID Funded Gender and Growth Assessment with Nitya Rao and Elissaios Papyrakis of DEV and colleagues at the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research, the GGA-Nigeria seeks to analyse the gendered impacts of growth in Nigeria over the last decade. The assessment involved statistical analysis, of the gender and growth linkage, and of micro-economic data from the Nigeria Living Standards measurement Survey (2003), Nigerian Demographic and Health Surveys, and the Multiple Indicators Cluster Surveys, a review of the grey literature on the impacts of growth processes in different regions of the country on men and women, and two sub-national case studies in Lagos and Kano. The study was initiated in April 2008 and completed by September 2009. Click to download the final report for the Nigeria Gender and Growth Assessment, the macroeconomic and microeconomic study reports and the state reports (Bauchi, Cross River, Kano and Lagos).
In recent years I have been working on the measurement of poverty particularly in Bangladesh and India.
I am an economist specialising in poverty, agriculture and natural resources (especially water) and environment, rural development and political economy. In recent years I have specialised in South Asia, particularly Bangladesh, with special reference to agricultural growth, poverty trends, groundwater development and irrigation service markets. Earlier I did much work in Malawi and Nigeria. I do formal and informal field work, and quantitative, statistical and econometric analysis as well as discursive analysis and have an interest in Geographical Information Systems.
Recent successful PhD students include Robert Grant (2009) ‘Contract, Kin, Culture And Accumulation In South East Tanzania’ and Maren Duvendack (2010) 'Smoke and Mirrors: Evidence from Microfinance Impact Evaluations in India and Bangladesh'
Key Research Interests
Research Activities
Links to my recent research on poverty in India and Bangladesh
Earlier I did research on:
- Pro-Poor Growth in India and Bangladesh,
- Work and Well-being,
- Sex-ratios in India,
- Cadastral Mapping and Natural Resource Management,
- Historical Aerial Photographs and Vegetational Change in Ghana,
- Irrigation Service Markets in Bangladesh,
and before that on Irrigation in the North of Nigeria and Tea in Malawi (links to be added).
I am co-organiser of a new research network, 'As Well as the Subject: Additional Dimensions in Development Research Ethics'
Publications
Forthcoming
Duvendack, M. and Palmer-Jones, R.W. Comment on: Abou-Ali, H., El-Azony, H., El-Laithy, H., Haughton, J. & Khandker, S., 2010. Evaluating the Impact of Egyptian Social Fund for Development Programmes. Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2 (4), p.521 - 555. Forthcoming in the Journal of Development Effectiveness
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Duvendack, M. and Palmer-Jones, R.W. Reply: Much ado about something: response to Haughton’s Reply to Duvendack and Palmer-Jones. Forthcoming in the Journal of Development Effectiveness
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2011
Duvendack, M. and Palmer-Jones, R.W. 2011, High Noon for Microfinance Impact Evaluations: Re-investigating the Evidence from Bangladesh. Working Paper 27, School of International Development, University of East Anglia, UK
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2010
Palmer-Jones, R.W., 2010, Review: Handbook on impact evaluation: quantitative methods and practices, by S.R. Khandker, G.B. Koolwal and H.A. Samad, Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2 (3): 387 - 390
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2009
Palmer-Jones, R.W., 2010, Book review of: A.A. Deaton and V. Kozel (eds), The Great Indian Poverty Debate; and A.K. Mehta and A. Shepherd (eds), Chronic Poverty and Development Policy in India. Journal of South Asian Development 4 (2):285 - 293
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Rao, N., Palmer-Jones, R., Akanji, B., Ajala, B., Akpokodje, G., and Papyrakis, E. (2009) Gender and Growth Assessment - Nigeria: National Overview. Report produced for the Department for International Development (DFID)/Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
Palmer-Jones, R., Papyrakis, E. et al. (2009) Gender and Growth Assessment - Nigeria: Macroeconomic Study. Report produced for the Department for International Development (DFID)/Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
Palmer-Jones, R. et al. (2009) Gender and Growth Assessment - Nigeria: Microeconomic Study. Report produced for the Department for International Development (DFID)/Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
Akanji, B., Rao, N., Palmer-Jones, R., Ajala, B., Akpokodje, G., and Papyrakis, E. (2009) Gender and Growth Assessment - Nigeria: Bauchi, Cross River, Kano and Lagos State Reports. Report produced for the Department for International Development (DFID)/Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
2008
Palmer-Jones, R.W. and Dubey, A, 2008, Poverty Incidence in India since 1993: Another View, Working Paper 08, The School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, UK
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2006
Palmer-Jones, R.W. and Kunal Sen, 2006, Its Where you are that Matters: the Spatial Determinants of Rural Poverty in India, Agricultural Economics, 34(1):1-14
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Palmer-Jones, R.W. (and Amaresh Dubey and Kunal Sen), 2006, Surplus Labour, Social Structure and Rural to Urban Migration: Evidence from Indian Data, European Journal of Development Research, 18,1:86-104
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2005
Palmer-Jones R.W., (and A. Dubey), 2005, Prices, Price Indexes and Poverty Counts in India during the 1980s and 19980s: Calculation of Unit Value Consumer Price Indexes, Artha Vijnana, XLVII, 3-4, 223-58.
Palmer-Jones R.W., (and A. Dubey, 2005, Prices, Price Indexes and Poverty Counts in India during the 1980s and 19980s:from Unit Value CPIs to Poverty Lines, Artha Vijnana, 3-4, 259-86.
Palmer-Jones R.W., (and A. Dubey), 2005, Poverty Counts in India since 1983: New Poverty Counts and Robust Poverty Comparisons, Artha Vijnana, XLVII, 3-4, 287-328
Tribe, M., J.T. Thoburn and R. Palmer-Jones, Development Economics and Social Justice: Essays in Honour of Ian Livingstone, Aldershot, Hants, UK/Burlington, USA: Ashgate Publishing Ltd
2003
Palmer-Jones, R., 'Agricultural growth, poverty reduction and agro-ecological zones in India: an ecological fallacy?' in Food Policy 28 (5-6): 423-431
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Palmer-Jones, R., & K. Sen, 'What has luck got to do with it? A regional analysis of poverty and agricultural growth in India', paper presented at WIDER Conference on Spatial Inequality in Asia, UNU Tokyo, 28-29 March 2003
2002
Agnihotri, S., R. Palmer-Jones & A. Parikh, 'Missing Women in Indian Districts: A Quantitative Analysis' in Journal of Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 13 (1): 284-313
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Palmer-Jones, R., 'Between Cultures and Markets: An Eclectic Analysis of Juvenile Gender Ratios in India' in Journal of Quantitative Economics 17 (1): 43-59
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Palmer-Jones, R., & K. Sen, 'What has luck got to do with it? A regional analysis of poverty and agricultural growth in India', paper presented at WIDER Conference on Spatial Inequality in Asia, UNU Tokyo, 28-29 March 2003
2001
Dasgupta, I., R. Palmer-Jones & A. Parikh, 'Between Cultures and Markets: an Eclectic Analysis of Juvenile Sex Ratios in India' in Journal of Quantitave Economics 17 (1): 43-59
Palmer-Jones, R., 'Irrigation service markets in Bangladesh: Private Provision of Local Public Goods with Community Regulation?' presented at symposium and workshop on Managing Common Resources - What is the solution? held at Lund University Sweden, on 10-11 September 2001
Palmer-Jones, R., & K. Sen, 'India 's Poverty Puzzles and the Statistics of Poverty' in Economic and Polictical Weekly 36 (3), January 20: 211-217
1999
Jackson, C., & Palmer-Jones, R., 'Rethinking gendered poverty and work' in Development and Change 30 (1): 557-584
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Palmer-Jones, R., 'Slowdown in Agricultural Growth in Bangladesh: Neither a Good Description Nor a Description Good to Give' in B. Rogaly, B. Harriss-White & S. Bose (eds), Sonar Bangla? Agricultural Growth and Agrarian Change in West Bengal and Bangladesh, New Delhi: Sage Publications; London: Thousand Oaks, pp92-136
1998
Jackson, C., & R. Palmer-Jones, 'Work intensity, gender and well-being', conference paper for the UNRISD Conference on Gender and Poverty in Trivandrum, Kerala, India, 1997; now published by UNRISD, Geneva, as Occasional Paper No 10/11
Palmer-Jones, R., & A. Parikh, 'The Determination of Agricultural Wage Rates in Bangladesh' in Journal of Agricultural Economics 49 (1): 111-133
1997
Palmer-Jones, R., & C. Jackson, 'Work intensity, poverty and gender in sustainable development' in Food Policy 22 (1): 39-62
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