Current Project

What is the incidence of informal taxation on inequality in access to school?

This study will look at whether abolishing school fees would eventually result in less or more inequality in access to high quality education and, ultimately, have a positive or negative incidence on the reproduction of inequality more generally.

Researchers

Bienvenu Matungulu

Bienvenu Matungulu is a PhD student in Economics and Development jointly organised by the Catholic University of Bukavu and the University of Antwerp (Institute of Development Policy). After completing his degree in Rural Economics at the Catholic University of Bukavu, he went on to postgraduate studies in Management and Evaluation of Development Projects/Policies, culminating in a master's degree in 'Development, Evaluation and Management'. He is passionate about the question of state formation and inequalities.

Tom De Herdt

Tom De Herdt studied political and social sciences and economics. His research focuses on the domains of poverty alleviation, capabilities, local governance and practical norms. He has published mainly on poverty, regress and development in Congo-Kinshasa but has also done some work on Nicaragua, Rwanda and Cameroon. He is currently focusing his research and policy advisory work on local aspects of public action in DRC.

Kamala C. Kaghoma

Kamala Kaghoma has a Ph.D in Economics from Université de Yaoundé II-Soa with majors in Econometrics and Environmental economics. He is currently working with the faculty of Economics and Management of the Université Catholique de Bukavu (UCB) where he has been teaching for more than a decade now. Kamala’s main areas of research include Public Economics, Environmental Economics, Human resources Economics, Development microeconomics, Applied Macroeconomics, Applied econometrics and research methodology. His work focuses on child welfare related to water and sanitation access, poverty dynamics, social mobility and intergenerational (multidimensional) welfare transmission with emphasis on African countries. He is currently working on several issues like the role of social networks with regards to the management of natural resources, youth employment, entrepreneurship and internal migration and post-exploitation dynamics of restoration of artisanal mining sites in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Kamala Kaghoma has conducted field researches and surveys in DRC and has some consultancy experience in Africa.
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