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Yélé M. Batana holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Université Laval since june 2008, a DEA-PTCI from Université de Ouagadougou (1997). He is currently a research fellow at PEP, Université Laval, after completing a postdoctoral fellow at Université de Montréal, where he worked on social health inequalities. He has also been a visiting fellow at OPHI (Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative), Oxford University, during the summer of 2008. Yélé’s main areas of research include Public Economics, Welfare Economics, Econometrics and Development Economics. His work focuses mainly on multidimensional poverty measurement and robust welfare comparisons with emphasis on African countries and the statistical challenges associated to working with non-parametric techniques for the measurement and the monitoring of welfare. |