Mats Hårsmar

Senior Research Associate at NAI from 2009.

Research Programme
Productivity Potentials and Poverty in Relation to Sub-Saharan Agriculture

Academic background
Mats Hårsmar has a PhD in Rural Development Studies from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala. With an initial research focus on agricultural economics and institutional economics centered on peasant strategies in Burkina Faso and Ghana, he is now focusing on poverty issues more generally. Prior to joining NAI he served as chief analyst at the department of development policies at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, and earlier also as head secretary of the Expert Group on Development Issues, EGDI, at the MFA. Further, he has a background in development cooperation and in journalism.

Curriculum Vitae, CV (pdf)

Subject areas
Factors explaining movements into poverty; poverty and growth; poverty and Foreign Direct Investments.

Publications
Hårsmar, M. (ed) 2006: ”Agricultural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa”, EGDI, Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Stockholm: 

Hårsmar, M. 2004: ”Heavy Clouds But no Rain – agricultural growth theories and peasant strategies on the Mossi Plateau, Burkina Faso”, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala: http://diss-epsilon.slu.se:8080/archive/00000437/

Contact
mats.harsmar@nai.uu.se
Tel: +46 18 56 22 25 (direct)