Chris Udry
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Chris Udry is a Lead Academic for IGC Ghana.
Chris is Robert E. and Emily King Professor of Economics at Northwestern University. He was previously Professor of Economics at Yale University. He is a development economist whose research focuses on rural economic activity in sub-Saharan Africa. He has conducted extensive field research in West Africa on technological change in agriculture, the use of financial markets, asset accumulation and gift exchange to cope with risk, gender relations and the structure of household economies, property rights and a variety of other aspects of rural economic organization. He spent two years as a secondary school teacher in northern Ghana, and has been a visiting scholar at Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria and at the University of Ghana at Legon. At Yale, Udry directed the Economic Growth Center and served as the Chair of the Department of Economics. He also previously served as IGC Research Programme Director for Firms.
