Author
Pierre Beaucoral
PhD Candidate in Development Economics
I’m a development economist in training at CERDI. I spend most of my time debugging my R and Python codes trying to understand where "climate money" goes, what it is for, what it changes locally, and how data and ML can help answer these questions.
Interests
Development economicsClimate financeGeocoded and spatial data analysisMachine learning & causal inference
Education
PhD Candidate in Development Economics
Clermont Auvergne University2023
Clermont Auvergne University2023
Master degree in development economics, with honours
Clermont Auvergne University2021
Clermont Auvergne University2021
Bachelor degree in development economics, with honours
Clermont Auvergne University2018
Clermont Auvergne University2018
Selected work
2026
Maladaptation by Displacement: Spatial Spillovers of Adaptation Finance in Sub-Saharan Africa
2026
Maladaptation by Displacement: Spatial Spillovers of Adaptation Finance in Sub-Saharan Africa
2026
Development Goals, Emissions Costs? Climate and Development Finance vis-à-vis Local CO₂ Emissions
2026
Cracking the code: enhancing development finance understanding with artificial intelligence
2026
Scaling down climate adaptation finance justice: how cosmopolitan allocation ideals withstand sovereign realities at the subnational level
2026
Scaling down climate adaptation finance justice: how cosmopolitan allocation ideals withstand sovereign realities at the subnational level
2026
Introduction to Difference-in-Differences
2025
Ce que l'IA change : Promesses, faits, doutes
2025
ICDE 2025
2025
Miners meeting
2025
AFEDEV JDD
2025
No plan, No Aid? The effects of National Adaptation Plan implementation on received Adaptation Aid
2024
Econom'IA conference
2023
CERDI PhD seminar
2023