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Unit Director BA (Sussex), MA (Toronto), PhD (Southampton)
Michael is Director of the Poverty Research Unit at Sussex and a Senior Lecturer in economics at the University of Sussex. He is also an Associate Professor at GREQAM, one of the top three research institutes in France, and is a member of the FEMISE (Forum Euro-Mediterranéen des Instituts Economique) Steering Committee. Michael specialises in international trade, with interest in both empirical and theorectical research. He has produced a number of reports for the European Commission (on rules of origin, on the impact of the internal market in trade production, on the consequences of greater price transparency within the EU arising from monetary union, and on the regional impact of Cohesion Fund expenditure), and for the UK government (on measuring the regional impact of infrastructure improvments). His current research interests include the impact of trade liberalisation on the MENA region - in particular, the relationship between trade liberalisation and firm-level structural adjustment; the impact of the Cotonou agreement on the Caribbean region; the importance of rules of origin in preferential trading agreements.
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