Cossa, Susan R

University of Denver (DU)

Susan Cossa is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs. Her dissertation – Three Essays on Foreign Capital Inflows and Rural Development in Mozambique – establishes an inclusive growth index using principal components analysis and examines the socioeconomic effects of agricultural foreign capital in Mozambique. Susan recently returned from a year of field research in Mozambique, where she collected survey and interview data in rural communities on the socioeconomic impacts of agricultural foreign direct investment from China, India, and South Africa. During this period, Susan also worked as a Research Fellow at the World Bank’s Development Impact Group’s Mozambique office. In this role, Susan designed and implemented a qualitative assessment of the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization’s Farmer Field School Program. Using findings from this assessment, she wrote an article draft titled Social, Economic, Political, and Policy Determinants of Women’s Participation in Farmer Field Schools: Empirical Evidence from Mozambique. Susan is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Political Economy Research Institute at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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