Poverty and Readjustments Trade and Development Paradigms
Biography
Elsa Sarmento is an applied economist and associate researcher at NOVAFRICA, Nova Business School of Management and Economics, Portugal. She has lectured for over a decade in economics and econometrics at the Universidad Santiago de Compostela (Spain), University of York (UK), Nova Business School of Management and Economics, Universidade do Minho, Universidade de Aveiro, Universidade Fernando Pessoa (Portugal). She has edited the “The Emerald Handbook of Public-Private Partnerships in Developing and Emerging Economies, Perspectives on Public Policy, Entrepreneurship and Poverty” in 2017.
She has been a researcher at the CEP (LSE) and the European Parliament, amongst others. She worked for the World Bank, African Development Bank, Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, UNDP and the European Commission. She acted as policy adviser at the House of Commons (UK), the Governments of Angola and DR Congo and has been Director-General at the Research Office of the Portuguese Ministry of Economy. Among other representation posts, she acted as Portugal’s delegate at the OECD Committee on Industry, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the UN Team of Specialists on Innovation and Competitiveness Policies and the Inno-Partnering Council of the European Commission.
