Research interests
Economics of Conflicts and Redistribution
Political institutions
Civil wars, and transnational terrorism
African Economies
Biography
Jean-Paul Azam is a professor of economics Emeritus at the Toulouse School of Economics, University of Toulouse and a member of IAST. After publishing mainly on the macroeconomics of Africa, he has focused since the mid-1990s on explaining violent conflict and its prevention, with application to foreign aid, civil war, and transnational terrorism.