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Professor Armando Barrientos - Research Director

Professor Armando Barrientos	Armando Barrientos joined BWPI as Senior Research Fellow in August 2007. He was appointed Research Director in April 2009. He gained his BA and PhD from the University of Kent at Canterbury in the UK. He was formerly a Research Fellow at IDS, University of Sussex, and Senior Lecturer at IDPM in Manchester. He is also a Senior Researcher with the Chronic Poverty Research Centre, leading research on Insecurity, Risk and Vulnerability. His research interests focus on the linkages existing between social protection and labour markets in developing countries, and policies addressing poverty, vulnerability, and population ageing. His articles have appeared in journals such as World Development, Applied Economics, The Manchester School and Geneva Papers in Risk and Insurance, and is the author of Pension Reform in Latin America. He has acted as an adviser to the ILO, the World Bank, DFID, UNRISD, UN-DESA, UNICEF, IADB, WIEGO, and the Caribbean Development Bank
Current research areas	Poverty and vulnerability analysis, social protection, labour markets in developing countries, ageing and pensions
Recent publications	See full list of publications on University publications database .
Books	Social Protection for the Poor and Poorest, (2008),Edited with David Hulme, London: Palgrave. Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Asia, Africa and Latin America (with I. Gough, G. Wood, P. Bevan, P. Davis, and G. Room), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2004)
Journal articles	With C. Santibañez, 'New forms of social assistance and the evolution of social protection in Latin America', (2009), in Journal of Latin American Studies, 41(1). With J. Gideon and M. Molyneux, (2008), 'New Developments in Latin America's Social Policy', in Development and Change, 39(5), pp.759-774. 'Labour markets and the (hyphenated) welfare regime in Latin America', (2009), in Economy and Society, 38(1), pp. 87-108. 'The role of tax-financed social security', (2007), in International Social Security Review 60(2-3), pp. 99-117. With Jocelyn DeJong, 'Reducing child poverty with cash transfers: A sure thing?', (2006), in Development Policy Review, 24(5), pp. 537-552. 'Poverty Reduction: the missing piece of pension reform in Latin America', (2006), in Social Policy and Administration, 40(4), pp. 369-384. With David Hulme and Andrew Shepherd, 'Can Social Protection tackle Chronic Poverty?', (2005), in European Journal of Development Research, 17(1), pp. 8-23.
Book Chapters	'Ageing, poverty and public policy in developing countries: New survey evidence', in Social Protection in an Ageing World, (2008), edited by P. Kemp, International Studies in Social Security Series, FISS, Oxford: Intersentia. 'Financing Social Protection', in Social Protection for the Poor and Poorest, (2008), edited by A. Barrientos and D. Hulme, London: Palgrave. 'Modernising social assistance', in Proceedings of World Conference on Social protection and exclusion: Converging Efforts from a Global Perspective, (2007), Geneva: EU and ILO.
Working Papers	(2007), 'Does vulnerability create poverty traps?', Chronic Poverty Research Centre, CPRC Working Paper 76 available from www.chronicpoverty.org (2006), 'Extending Social Assistance in China: Lessons from the Minimum Living Standard Scheme', with Jiandong Chen, CPRC Working Paper 67, available from www.chronicpoverty.org
Other resources	Link to short CV

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