
Isabel Günther

Evidence Generation
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Evidence Generation
IPA has 17 country offices, listed here. To date, we have more than 1,000 projects completed or underway in more than 60 countries.
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Professor of Development Economics
Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich
Isabel Günther has been Professor of Development Economics and director of NADEL since July 2014. From October 2008 to June 2014 she was acting as Assistant Professor for Development Economics at ETH Zürich. She had previously been research associate at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Göttingen for three years and at the Harvard School of Public Health for one year. Her main research interest is in empirical microeconomics with a particular focus on measurement of poverty and inequality, population economics, technologies and policies for poverty reduction, and effectiveness of development aid. Isabel Günther has carried out most of her research in Benin, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa.