Aussi Sayinzoga

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Email: 
asayinzoga@gmail.com
Telephone: 
+250788875192
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@AussiSayinzoga
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Published Papers : 

Sayinzoga, A., Bulte, E. H., & Lensink, R. (2016). Financial literacy and financial behaviour: Experimental evidence from rural Rwanda. The economic journal, 126(594), 1571-1599. 
Sayinzoga, A., & Simson, R. (2006). Monetary policy in Rwanda: A cointegration analysis. South African Journal of Economics, 74(1), 65-78.

Brief profile: 
Aussi Sayinzoga has 22 years of experience as lecturer of courses including Econometrics, National Economic Accounts, Macroeconomics, and Entrepreneurship and project management, and Impact evaluation studies. He has contributed to World Bank’s WAVES (Wealth Accounting and the Valuation of Ecosystem Services) program to compile water accounts and Mineral resources accounts. He has also been identified by the World Bank to contribute to the GPS (Global Program on Sustainability) to compile the economic costs of soil erosion as part of a contribution the environmentally adjusted economic aggregates for Rwanda. Aussi has designed and implemented field experiments (RCT) in rural Rwanda including a research on the impact of financial literacy training on financial behaviour. He has expertise in the domain of impact assessment and the organisation/execution/analysis of field experiments and Randomized Controlled Trials. He has extensive experience in research based on observed and measured phenomena and was the team leader of a team of experts that conducted a study by MINALOC on the “Development of Income Generating Activities other than Agriculture” under the theme “A Study on the Development of Grouped Settlements in Rwandan Rural Areas for Sustainable Development ”.
Research Area: 
Applied Econometrics; Development Economics; National Accounts; Natural Capital and Environmental Accounting; Impact Evaluation Studies; Macroeconomic Policies; Financial literacy and Finacial Education.