Bruce Byiers
- Political economy of development reforms
- Business facilitation
- Domestic resource mobilisation
- Regional integration processes
- Developing country export promotion
- Enterprise devleopment / private sector development
- Industrialisation policy
- Tax policy
Biography
Dr. Bruce Byiers is a development economist with a DPhil from the University of Sussex. Originally from Scotland, he heads the Regional Integration team of the Economic and Agricultural Transformation programme at ECDPM, where he has been working since May 2011.
While past work has focused a lot on strategies and policies for private sector development and engagement, his interests and responsibilities increasingly revolve around regional integration processes in Africa, particularly from a political economy perspective. This includes looking at regional organisations, but also at regional economic integration dynamics. Bruce has carried out policy research for ECDPM in many countries in Eastern, Western and Southern Africa.
Prior to ECDPM, Bruce worked as a consultant for UNIDO, USAID, World Bank and DANIDA, among others. The focus of his work was mainly on industrial policy, private sector development and tax policy, particularly in Mozambique, Rwanda and Lesotho.
Bruce also worked in the Mozambican Ministry of Planning and Development/Finance for five years, partly as an ODI Fellow and subsequently as a consultant and researcher in the Macro-economic Projections Unit of the National Budget Directorate, and the Directorate for Policy Studies and Analysis. As well as English, he is fluent in French, Spanish and Portuguese.
Responsibilities
- Member of the ECDPM management team
- To work on developing work programmes and analytical content relating to the above areas
- To help identify funding opportunities, develop funding proposals and, to effectively secure funds for assigned projects and/or policy facilitation activities
- To develop knowledge on key policy issues through assembling content, doing research and brokering knowledge
Pre-ECDPM assignments
- IBF International Consulting, Economic Development Sector Manager, Belgium
- Independent consultant, assignments for UNIDO, DfID, World Bank, World Bank, DANIDA, and AUSAID in Mozambique, Rwanda, and Lesotho
- Oxford Policy Management, consultant on Public Expenditure Management Reforms, Mozambique
- ODI Fellow, National Directorate of Planning and Finance, Mozambique
- Assistant researcher, Fernand Braudel Institute for the World Economy, Brazil
All
The African Continental Free Trade Area and the politics of industrialisation
Elections in Africa – Playing the game or bending the rules?
Making sense of regional integration in Africa
The political economy of Africa’s regional ‘spaghetti bowl’ – Synthesis report
Sustainable livestock value chains in West Africa: Can regional organisations rise to the challenges?
Youth unemployment and the role of regional organisations
Aborder le développement régional autrement – note methodologique
African power pools: Regional energy, national power
Publications
Elections in Africa – Playing the game or bending the rules?
The political economy of Africa’s regional ‘spaghetti bowl’ – Synthesis report
Youth unemployment and the role of regional organisations
Aborder le développement régional autrement – note methodologique
African power pools: Regional energy, national power
The political economy of regional industrialisation strategies
SADC industrialisation: Where regional agendas meet domestic interests
Working with the grain of African integration
Blog
The African Continental Free Trade Area and the politics of industrialisation
Making sense of regional integration in Africa
Sustainable livestock value chains in West Africa: Can regional organisations rise to the challenges?
What has thinking and working politically ever done for us?
Industrialising Africa one nut at a time
Morocco’s accession to ECOWAS: Building bridges or rocking the boat?
Trade and food security in West Africa
‘Making Africa work’ - What not to do
GREAT Insights Magazine
International support for economic reform in Tunisia: can it work with the grain?
Make regional integration in Africa work… better
Regional economic integration in the Horn of Africa: Wishful thinking or a basis for peace?
Corridors as industrial policy? Linking people, policies and places
Fostering More and Better Jobs
Thematic Focus: Fostering More and Better Jobs
Enhancing the Regional Dimensions of Aid for Trade
Private Sector for Development
Multimedia
Bruce Byiers
Head of Regional Integration | Economic and Agricultural Transformation Programme
Nationality
Scottish, British
Languages
English, French, Spanish, Portuguese
Location
Maastricht office
Onze Lieve Vrouweplein 21
6211 HE Maastricht