Klaus Deininger

Klaus Deininger is a Lead Economist in the rural development group of the Development Economics Group. His areas of research focus on income and asset inequality and its relationship to poverty reduction and growth; access to land, land markets and land reform and their impact on household welfare and agricultural productivity; land tenure and its impact on investment, including environmental sustainability: and capacity building (including the use of quantitative and qualitative methods) for policy analysis and evaluation, mainly in the Africa, Central America, and East Asia Regions. He is a German national with a Ph.D. in Applied Economics from the University of Minnesota, an MA in Agricultural Economics from the University of Berlin, and an MA in theology from the University of Bonn. He is the author of The Land Governance Assessment Framework: Identifying and Monitoring Good Practice in the Land Sector with H. Selod and A. Burns (World Bank Publications 2012) as well as numerous book chapters and journal articles.