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Jakob Svensson

  • Professor of Economics
  • Stockholm University

Roles

Researchers

Jakob Svensson is the former Lead Academic for IGC Uganda.

Jakob Svensson is a Professor of Economics at the Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University. His research interests include corruption, accountability in service delivery programmes, and political economy. He also sits on the review board of the J-PALGovernance Initiative.

Projects

Community health care and COVID-19 pandemic: Experimental evidence

Martina Bjorkman-Nyqvist, Jakob Svensson, Andrea Guariso 30 Sep 2020
Project

Mechanisms of participatory development: Fairness norms and value of participation

Selene Ghisolfi, Serena Cocciolo, Jakob Svensson 30 Apr 2017
Project

Making agricultural extension work by embedding extension workers into the supply chain

Jakob Svensson, Tessa Bold, Tim Ohlenburg 31 Mar 2017
Project

Dealing with fake agricultural inputs

Jakob Svensson, Tessa Bold 31 Oct 2014
Project

Improving Services Delivery: An Assessment of Absenteeism Data

Jakob Svensson, Andrew Zeitlin, Tessa Bold, Kjetil Bjorvatn 31 Jul 2013
Project

All contributions

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Dealing with fake agricultural inputs (Project Memo)

Jakob Svensson, David Yanagizawa-Drott
Organisation document

Low quality, low returns, low adoption

Tessa Bold, Kayuki Kaizzi, Jakob Svensson, David Yanagizawa-Drott
Policy brief
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Africa Growth Forum 2015: Increasing agricultural productivity in Africa

Jakob Svensson
Audio
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Low quality, low returns, low adoption: Evidence from the market for fertilizer and hybrid seed in Uganda

Tessa Bold, Kayuki Kaizzi, Jakob Svensson, David Yanagizawa-Drott
Working paper