Saavedra Pineda, Santiago
- Investigador, Grupo de Investigación Facultad de Economía , Facultad de Economía
- Director Maestría en Economía de las Políticas Públicas, Facultad de Economía , Universidad del Rosario
- Profesor asociado de carrera, Facultad de Economía , Universidad del Rosario
Áreas De Investigación
- Development economics (LCSH)
- Environmental economics (LCSH)
Perfil
Perfil Profesional
His research interests are in Development and Environmental Economics. In particular, he is interested in how economic development affects natural resources, and how this in turn affects the path out of poverty. To overcome data availability limitations, he uses spatial and computational tools. He has studied the response of illegal mining to a change in royalty taxes and health effects of gold mining in Colombia. Deforestation after the peace agreement and of communal land titling. He has also studied the migration of miner networks and the labor supply of biketaxis in Kenya.