Franque Grimard

Franque Grimard is an Associate Professor of the Department of Economics at McGill University. He has been teaching Economic Development at the B.A. Master’s and Ph.D. levels for the last 25 years. He is back at McGill after an extended leave, residing in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. His research specialties are Development and Health Economics, where he is interested in the application of statistical analysis and data collection to applied policy issues such as poverty and social protection, health, gender empowerment, public finance management, corporate social responsibility and extractive industries, and sustainable development. His work on economic development has been published in the Journal of Development Economics, World Development, Economic Development and Cultural Change, the Review of Development Economics and Ecological Economics. His current research projects look at the impact of cash transfer programs on women’s empowerment in Tanzania, on the availability of quality daycare on women’s empowerment in urban slums of Kenya and at the impact of extractive industries on the standard of living of individuals in Panama. Professor Grimard’s research on health focuses on the social-economic determinants of health. In particular, it analyses the long-term impact of shocks for the health of individuals and the cost effectiveness of health programs to improve the living standards of poor women in Peru.

Professor Grimard is also the president of the Canadian Development Economics Study Group (CDESG). Operating with an IDRC grant, CDESG is the main research group on development economics in Canada organizing policy panels in the area of development economics, sponsoring developing country scholars to come to CDESG conferences to present their work, building a community of researchers in Canada and abroad to produce research and applied policy in development economics for policy makers in Canada and in developing countries.