Poverty
and Development in Africa
Dr. Renata Serra
Lecturer
421 Grinter Hall
(352) 846-0473
rserra@africa.ufl.edu
Office hours
Tuesdays: 10-11.30 a.m.
Fridays: 10.30 a.m.-12 noon
Renata Serra
Renata Serra is a development economist, with special interest in, and expertise on, Africa and India. She got a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge, UK, and subsequently worked as Research Officer for the Poverty Programme at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex University; she then moved to the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy; and then got back to Cambridge, as Director of Studies in Economics at Wolfson College, until she joined UF in August 2005.
She has served as a consultant on a number of projects in various African countries, sponsored by DFID, SIDA, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the World Bank, and Save the Children Fund, UK.Teaching
Fall 2008
Research
Main research interests areas: development economics; household, demographic and health economics; micro-finance; social capital; and the politics of poverty programs.
Current research projects include:
- Institutional aspects of cotton reforms: a study of Mali
and other Francophone countries
- Child fostering, child work, and hazardous labor in West
Africa
- Access to health services in Mali
- Micro-finance in Mali
