Institute of Development Studies

Biography

Martin Greeley is a Development Economist with over 30 year's professional experience including ten years long-term overseas work, (Andhra Pradesh, India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh). Main areas of interest are: aid and public policy, agricultural development, impact assessment, poverty reduction, microfinance.

Selected Projects and Recent Work

• Academic Partnership in Support of Teaching Development Aid Curriculum in Russia
• ALINe
• Baseline Social Performance Survey Afghanistan
• Review of UN Country Teams Engagement

Thematic Expertise

Agriculture; Aid; Development (General); Microfinance; Globalisation; Livelihoods; Poverty; Security and Conflict.

Selected Publications »»

• Sabates-Wheeler, R., Butters, S. and Greeley, M. (2010) 'Context-Specific and Project-Induced Risk: Designing Projects for Promoting Resilient Livelihoods', IDS Bulletin 41.6:96-104, Brighton: IDS
• Greeley, M. (2010) 'Accelerating Progress on the MDGs Country Priorities for Improving Performance' , Brighton: IDS
• Greeley, M. (2010) 'Priorities for Accelerating Progress on the MDGs', In Focus Policy Briefing , Brighton: IDS
• Hedger, M., Mitchell, T., Leavy, J., Greeley, M. and Horrocks, L. (2009) 'Evaluating Climate Change Adaptation from a Development Perspective' in Feinstein, O. and van den Berg, R. (eds), Evaluating Climate Change and Development, Edison: Transaction Publishers
• Hedger, M., Greeley, M. and Leavy, J. (2008) 'Evaluating climate change: pro-poor perspectives', IDS Bulletin 39.4:75-80, Brighton: IDS
• Hedger, M., Horrocks, L., Mitchell, T., Leavy, J. and Greeley, M. (2008) 'Evaluation of climate change adaptation from a development perspective'
• Greeley, M. and Chaturvedi, M. (2007) 'Microfinance in Afghanistan: A baseline and initial impact study for MISFA'
• Greeley, M. (2007) 'A Framework for Assessing Program and Project Aid in Low Income Countries Under Stress' in Manor, J. (eds), Aid that Works: Successful Development in Fragile States, Washington DC: World Bank
• Greeley, M. (2007) 'Aid Effectiveness and Microfinance: Lessons from Afghanistan' in Manor, J. (eds), Aid that Works: Successful Development in Fragile States, Washington DC: World Bank
• Greeley, M. and Rose, P. (2006) 'Education in Fragile States: Capturing Lessons and Identifying Good Practice'
• Greeley, M. (2006) 'Microfinance Impact and the MDGs: The Challenge of Scaling Up', IDS Working Paper 255, Brighton: IDS
• Copestake, J., Greeley, M., Johnson, S., Kabeer, N. and Simanowitz, A. (2005) Money with a Mission 1: Microfinance and Poverty Reduction, Intermediate Technology Publications
• Brody, A., Greeley, M. and Wright-Revolledo, K. (2005) Money with a Mission 2: Managing the Social Performance of Microfinance
• Greeley, M (2004) 'A Framework for Assessing Programme and Project Aid in LICUS Countries' , Brighton: IDS
• Greeley, M. (2004) 'MFIs with a Poverty mandate should go beyond "knowing the market" to assessing their impact on clients', "Crossfire" debate with Damian von Stauffenberg (founder of the first microfinance rating agency)', Journal of Small Enterprise Development