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John Spray

  • Economist
  • International Monetary Fund

Roles

Researchers

John Spray is an economist in the research department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) working on International Trade, Supply-Chains, Production Networks and Development.

Prior to this, he was a post-doctoral fellow and PhD student in Economics at the University of Cambridge, a country economist with the International Growth Centre in Rwanda, and an Overseas Development Institute Fellow in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry in Liberia.

Projects

Network measure of bottlenecks in Ugandan firms markets

John Spray 31 Aug 2019 Completed
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Domestic and international search frictions in Ugandan firm markets

John Spray 31 Aug 2019 Completed
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Prices, firm-to-firm trade, and import substitution in Rwanda

John Spray, Yuhei Miyauchi, Jie Bai 30 Oct 2019 Completed
Project

Improving supplier development linkages in the ‘Made in Rwanda’ policy: The potential of a Local Content Unit and a Firm Database

Victor Steenbergen, John Sutton, John Spray
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Supply chains, exports, and import-substitution

John Spray 30 Jun 2017 Completed
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Export transitions, productivity, and the supply chain

John Spray 31 Mar 2017 Completed
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Enterprise map of Rwandan maize, tourism and dairy value chains

John Spray, Vivek Agarwal 31 Dec 2015 Completed
Project

All contributions

Uganda Economic Growth Forum 2020: Unlocking new opportunities for inclusive growth during and after COVID-19

31 August 2020 23:00-23:00
Past Event
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The COVID-19 impact on Ugandan supply chains: The importance of imports

Jakob Rauschendorfer, John Spray
Policy brief
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Domestic and international search frictions in Ugandan firm markets

John Spray
Project report

Uganda Economic Growth Forum 2019: Industrialisation for job creation and shared prosperity

21 August 2019 23:00-23:00 The Imperial Royale Hotel, Kampala, Uganda
Past Event
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The potential of backward linkages in Rwanda: A data-driven approach to supplier development programmes

Victor Steenbergen, John Spray
Policy brief
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Estimating value added in Rwanda’s domestic trade

Ewoud Nijhof, Victor Steenbergen, John Spray
Project report

Improving Uganda’s trade performance to spur economic growth

Jakob Rauschendorfer, John Spray
Policy brief

Uganda National Budget Conference and Economic Growth Forum FY 2019/20

12 September 2018 23:00-23:00 Kampala Serena Hotel
Past Event

The need to prioritise export linkages in Uganda’s new growth strategy

John Spray
Blog

Uganda High-Level Economic Growth Forum

13–14 September 2017 Munyonyo, Uganda
Past Event
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Made in Rwanda: Establishing a publicly available supplier database for Rwanda

John Spray, Victor Steenbergen
Policy brief
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Improving linkages between exporters and local industries: Lessons from research in implementing the BUBU policy

John Spray
Policy brief
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Export transitions, productivity, and the supply chain: Assessing the influence of EAC trade costs reductions in exports and export supply chains

John Spray
Working paper
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Exports and promoting backward linkages: Ideas and lessons for the Made in Rwanda policy

John Spray
Policy brief
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Industries without smokestacks in Uganda and Rwanda

John Spray, Sebastian Wolf
Policy brief

Trade policy roundtable

27 March 2017 23:00-23:00 Kigali, Rwanda
Past Event

Workshop on trade, FDI and regional value chains in Uganda

12 December 2016 Protea Hotel, Kampala (Uganda)
Past Event

Can index based insurance reduce the vulnerability of farmers to weather?

Patrick McSharry, Tom Swartz, John Spray
Blog
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Africa Growth Forum 2015: Key transformational challenges in Africa

Tony Venables, Alan Hirsch, Peter Biar Ajak, Herbert M'cleod, John Spray
Audio

How coffee can drive economic growth

John Spray
Blog