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Sherman Robinson - Research Fellow

Globalisation
T: +44 (0)1273 915698
E: S.Robinson@ids.ac.uk

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Administrator:
Vivienne Benson

Thematic Expertise:
Poverty; Trade and Growth.

Economist with research interests in international trade, macroeconomic policy, income distribution, poverty, and policy-oriented general equilibrium modeling. His work on international trade has focused on the impact of global and regional trade agreements. Sherman holds a joint appointment as Professor of Economics at the University of Sussex.

The study analysed the trade and welfare implications of the Cariforum Economic Partnership Agreement using a multi-regional computable general equilibrium model as well as a single-region general equilibrium model of Jamaica.

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This project aims to create and strengthen analytical and practical capacity of policy analysis in Ethiopia and to support the government in its endeavours to meet the challenges of the MDGs.

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Pilot project to develop a dynamic multisectoral modelling framework for climate change impact and adaptation policy assessment.

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Studying the impact of trade policy changes and other changes in the international economic environment.

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This project involves a case-study approach to develop an economywide modeling framework for comparative analysis of climate change adaptation strategies linked to impact models.

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The Foresight project Global Food and Farming Futures explores the increasing pressures on the global food system between now and 2050. The Report highlights the decisions that policy makers need to take today, and in the years ahead, to ensure that a global population rising to nine billion or more can be fed sustainably and equitably.

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The Foresight Project on Global Food and Farming Futures addresses the question: ‘How can a future global population of 9 billion people all be fed healthily and sustainably?'

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This project reviews the effectiveness of the EU Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) at fostering exports from developing countries to the EU.

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This project used a global trade model to gauge the impact of a slowdown in economic activity in the OECD on trade performance, world prices and aggregate welfare in the rest of the world.

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Ethiopia's Growth Prospects in A Changing Climate: A Stochastic General Equilibrium Approach

Global Environmental Change 21.1 (2011)
Arndt, C., Robinson, S. and Willenbockel, D.

The Future of the Global Food System

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 365.1554 (2010)
Godfray, H.C.J., Beddington, J.R., Crute, I.R., Haddad, L., Lawrence, D., Muir, J.F., Nisbett, N., Robinson, S., Toulmin, C. and Whiteley, R.

Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People

Science 327 (2010)
Godfray, H.C.J., Beddington, J.R., Crute, I.R., Haddad, L., Lawrence, D., Muir, J.F., Pretty, J., Robinson, S., Thomas, S.M. and Toulmin, C.

Implications of Food Production and Price Shocks for Household Welfare in Ethiopia: A General Equilibrium Analysis

Report for the World Food Programme (2010)
Robinson, S., Willenbockel, D., Ahmed, H. and Dorosh, P.

The Global Financial Crisis, LDC Exports and Welfare: Analysis with a World Trade Model

In 'Policy Modeling 2009: Proceedings of the EcoMod2009 Conference held in Ottawa, Canada, June 24-26, 2009' (2009)
Dramais, A. and Merette, M.

The OECD Recession and Developing Country Trade: A Global Simulation Analysis

IDS Bulletin 40.5 (2009)
Robinson, S. and Willenbockel, D.

Contributions to chapters

In 'Accelerating Trade and Integration in the Caribbean: Policy Options for Sustained Growth, Job Creation, and Poverty Reduction' (2009)
Tsikata, Y., Moreira, E.P. and Hamilton, P.C.

The Impact on Developing Countries of an OECD Recession

IDS In Focus Policy Briefing 7.7 (2009)
Robinson, S. and Willenbockel, D.

Climate Change and Ethiopia

IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 6.32 (2009)
Arndt, C., Ahmed, H., Robinson, S. and Willenbockel, D.

Regional Input-Output Data: Ethiopia

In 'Global Trade, Assistance, and Production: The GTAP 7 Data Base' (2009)
Narayanan, B. and Walmsley, T.L.

Assessing the Impact of the EU-Cariforum EPA

(2008)
Evans, D., Gasiorek, M., Robinson, S. and Willenbockel, D.

A Country Study on the Economic Impacts of Climate Change: The Case of Ethiopia

(2008)
Willenbockel, D., Robinson, S., Arndt, C. and Ahmed, H.

Aid, Growth, and Real Exchange Rate Dynamics

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper WPS4480 (2008)
Devarajan, S., Go, D.S., Page, J., Robinson, S. and Thierfelder, K.

Asian Growth and Trade Poles: India, China, and East and Southeast Asia

World Development 36.2 (2008)
McDonald, S., Robinson, S. and Thierfelder, K.

International Trade and the Bottom Billion: Designing the Helping Hand

In 'Concern for the Bottom Billion' (2008)
Leonard, D.

India's Trade Policy Choices: Managing Diverse Challenges

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2008)
Polaski, S., Ganesh-Kumar, A., McDonald, S., Panda, M. and Robinson, S.

The Asian Drivers and Sub-Saharan Africa: The Challenge to Development Strategy

(2007)
Kaplinsky, R., Robinson S. and Willenbockel, D.
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