Biniam E. Bedasso | Economic Research Southern Africa

Contributor Name: Biniam E. Bedasso

Biniam Bedasso is a Senior Research Associate with the global education team at CGD and his research and policy analysis background span the economics of education, political economy, migration, and public finance. He holds a Ph.D. in Development Economics from Maastricht University.

A systematic and historical review of basic income support programs in middle-income co...

Discussion Document 06 As one of the most structurally unequal coun...

Ermias G. Weldesenbet, Biniam E. Bedasso

Discussion Document

Emigration and education: the schooling of the left behind in Nigeria

Despite recent political backlash in Europe and the United States, ...

Ermias G. Weldesenbet, Nonso Obikili, Biniam E. Bedasso

Policy Brief

Emigration and education: the schooling of the left behind in Nigeria

The potential effects of migration on the welfare of the left behin...

Ermias G. Weldesenbet, Nonso Obikili, Biniam E. Bedasso

Policy Brief

Measuring political and economic institutions in Ethiopia: c.1888 –2016

This paper presents the first ever set of indices of political and ...

Biniam E. Bedasso

Working Paper

Human capital inequality and electoral outcomes

Inequality is a problem which has beset South Africa for a long tim...

Biniam E. Bedasso, Nonso Obikili

Policy Brief

Human capital inequality and electoral outcomes in South Africa

This paper examines the nature and evolution of horizontal and vert...

Nonso Obikili, Biniam E. Bedasso

Working Paper

College Major Choice, Spatial Inequality and Elite Formation: Evidence from South Africa

This brief is based on a paper that examines the determinants of co...

Biniam E. Bedasso

Policy Brief

How Does Human Capital Shape the Social Contract?

This research brief presents the key findings and potential policy ...

Biniam E. Bedasso

Policy Brief

College Major Choice, Spatial Inequality and Elite Formation: Evidence from South Africa

This paper explores the determinants of college major choice in the...

Biniam E. Bedasso

Policy Brief

A Dream Deferred: the Microfoundations of Direct Political Action in Pre- and Post-demo...

Persistent protests might endanger the stability of young democraci...

Biniam E. Bedasso

Working Paper

The social and political case for promoting economic growth and broad-based innovation ...

Popular protest in South Africa has increased sharply in recent yea...

Biniam E. Bedasso

Policy Brief

Addressing structural change issues in the context of South Africa's political dispensa...

The current structure of South Africa’s economy is partly a product...

Biniam E. Bedasso

Policy Brief

Political transition in a small open economy: Retracing the economic trail of South Afr...

This paper seeks to offer an economic explanation for the emergence...

Biniam E. Bedasso

Working Paper

Does Education Promote Stable Property Rights?

This paper sets out to establish an empirical link between educatio...

Biniam E. Bedasso

Working Paper