2025-2026

Ibrahim Goni Abdoulkadiri

PhD project: Digital Transitions, Agricultural Transformation, and Ecological Trade-offs: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa.
Supervisor(s): Pierre Biscaye & Vianney Dequiedt

Miray Maher Halim Azmy

PhD project:  Three essays on internal parental constraints. Trajectories of social mobility.
Supervisor(s): Jules Gazeaud & Simone Bertoli

Daouda Bamba

PhD project:  The paradox of fossil fuel subsidies.
Supervisor(s): Grégoire Rota-Graziosi & Ahmed Tritah

Angèle Essika

PhD project:  Circular water economy: an attempt to model the Water–Food–Energy–Ecosystems Nexus at the territorial scale.
Supervisor(s): Cécile Batisse & Sébastien Marchand

Camille Giron

PhD project:  Cryptocurrencies as Drivers of Monetary Diversity Supporting Novel Organizational Models.
Supervisor(s): Ariane Tichit & Sébastien Marchand

Amélie Meric

PhD project:  Psychological effects of poverty on time and risk preferences .
Supervisor(s): Florent Bresson, Rabah Arezki & Alice Normand

Bakary Johnson Rouamba

PhD project:  Macroeconomic Effects of Economic Sanctions and Natural Resource Governance in Developing Countries.
Supervisor(s): Bertrand Laporte & Jonathan Goyette

Eddy Yanogo

PhD project:  Jobs! : The effects of foreign aid and climate change on employment in developing countries.
Supervisor(s): Michaël Goujon & Florian Leon

2024-2025

Georges Adeye

PhD project: Climate Change and Human Development in Africa.
Supervisor(s): Théophile T. Azomahou & Odilon Boris Lokonon

Rida Ali Khan

PhD project: Shocks and Human Capital.
Supervisor(s): Francesca Marchetta & Eric Roca-Fernandez

Anouck Daubrée

PhD project: Legal gender equality and governments revenues.
Supervisor(s): Grégoire Rota-Graziosi

Chifundo Mchowa

PhD project: Tax Policy and the Fiscal Contract in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
Supervisor(s): Jean-François Brun & Christian Von Haldenwang

Ilass Ouedraogo

PhD project: Conflict, Climate Change and Public Finance in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Supervisor(s): Samuel Guérineau

Gracia Rahi

PhD project: Essays on the effectiveness of environmental taxation, the challenges of the extractive sector, and climate lobbying in developing countries.
Supervisor(s): Bertrand Laporte & Emilie Caldeira

2023-2024

Pierre Beaucoral

PhD project: Climate finance and development finance : Analysis of the determinants and levers of "climate" financing for developing countries.
Supervisor(s): Michaël Goujon & Sébastien Marchand

Yrabo Dabou

PhD project: Essays on gender-based financial inclusion, fiscal performance and vulnerability to climate change in developing countries.
Supervisor(s): Jean-François Brun & Windkouni Haoua Eugenie Maiga

Habibou Ibrahim Kassoum

PhD project: Women's empowerment and health, what are the economic channels?
Supervisor(s): Pascale Phélinas & Jordan Loper

Chanrithy Lao

PhD project: Ecosystem services provided by biodiversity in agricultural landscapes in Cambodia.
Supervisor(s): Martine Audibert, Pascal Jouquet & Sébastien Marchand
Chanrithy is a PhD student at iEES Paris, funded by ANR ECOTERM in which CERDI is a partner.

Yannick Malalanirina

PhD project: Effects of gendered laws, natural disasters and weather shocks on intimate partner violence and women's employment in developing countries.
Supervisor(s): Francesca Marchetta

Alima Troré

PhD project: Impact of tax expenditures on the tax contract.
Supervisor(s): Jean-François Brun, Christian Von Haldenwang, Emilie Caldeira & Damien Cubizol

Paul Vernus

PhD project: International Solidarity in Financing Climate Resilient Development in Africa: Opportunities for Renewed EU-Africa Relations.
Supervisor(s): Vianney Dequiedt & Florian Léon

2022-2023

Mariz Samy Sobhy ABDOU

PhD project: On the nexus between exchange rate misalignment, trade performance and quality of economic institutions: evidence using macro and firm-level data for developing economies.
Supervisor(s):  Patrick PLANE & Chahir ZAKI

Idrissa Aladji AYA

PhD project: Analysis of the effects of conflict on economic activity economic activity in developing countries.
Supervisor(s):  Vianney DEQUIEDT & Michaël GOUJON

Melchior CLERC

PhD project: Determining factors and implications of household composition and its variations in developping countries.
Supervisor(s):  Simone BERTOLI

Sansan Vincent de Paul KAMBOU

PhD project: Essays on the macroeconomic effects of exogenous shocks on debt sustainability in developing countries.
Supervisor(s):  Samuel GUERINEAU & Marin FERRY

Maworobi François OUATTARA

PhD project: Financing for Development : Analysis of the Tax Performance of Developing and Transition countries.
Supervisor(s):  Jean-François BRUN & Mahamadou DIARRA

Adama OUEDRAOGO

PhD project: Financing for Development, Illicit Financial Flows and Institutional Quality in Developing Countries.
Supervisor(s):  Samuel GUERINEAU & Relwendé SAWADOGO

Neerbewendé Rachid PAFADNAM

PhD project: Natural resources, governance and institutional quality, and financing for development in resource-rich countries.
Supervisor(s):  Samuel GUERINEAU

Arouna ZOROME

PhD project: Essays on globalization and the economic costs of climate change for developing countries.
Supervisor(s):  Michaël GOUJON & Ahmed TRITAH

2021-2022

Cheick Amadou CAMARA

PhD project: Fiscal decentralization in developing countries
Supervisor(s): Bertrand LAPORTE & Emilie CALDEIRA

Nourat Al Hayat GUIGMA

PhD project: Digitalization, international taxation and development financing. What role for tax policies and reforms?
Supervisor(s): Grégoire ROTA-GRAZIOSI

Komivi Fidèle Magloire SESHIE-TSIKATA

PhD project: Informal sector and labour market regulation in Africa
Supervisor(s): Grégoire ROTA-GRAZIOSI & Ahmed TRITAH

Lucie Marie-Chantal Natoumtaore TIARE

PhD project: Impacts of taxation on agricultural productivity and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa
Supervisor(s): Grégoire ROTA-GRAZIOSI

Jule Kaïni TINTA

PhD project: Digital financial services and the modernization of tax administration in Africa
Supervisor(s): Samuel GUERINEAU & S. Omer COMBARY

2020-2021

Perin NZUE ENEME

PhD project: Essais sur les stratégies de mobilisation des recettes fiscales en zone CEMAC
Supervisor(s): Bertrand LAPORTE & Albert ONDO OSSA

2019-2020

Gildas Bopahbe DEUDIBE

PhD project: Perspectives macroéconomiques des impacts de politiques environnementales sur la gestion de la politique budgétaire
Supervisor(s): Jean-Louis COMBES & Pascale COMBES MOTEL

Kalo Achille SANOU

PhD project: Essais sur la taxation des ressources minières en Afrique
Supervisor(s): Bertrand LAPORTE

Abdoul Fattath Yaya TAPSOBA

PhD project: La compétitivité des agricultures africaines : définition, mesure et impact des politiques publiques
Supervisor(s): Catherine ARAUJO BONJEAN