He has also been asked to contribute expertise to various policy-related processes such as the Select Committees of the House of Commons, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and a Lancet Poverty Commission, and he has been listed in US magazine Foreign Policy’s ‘Top 100 Global Thinkers’, and in the Huffington Post’s ‘Most Influential Voices’.

His research seeks to reconnect the analysis of poverty and inequality with the study of economic development and structural transformation.

This finding raised questions about the distributional patterns of economic growth, the divorce of much foreign aid from world poverty and about the dominant country analytical categories.

[9] His work argues that absolute poverty is a distributional outcome of specific patterns of economic development and welfare regimes.

[10][11][12][13] His work has been discussed in media outlets such as The Economist, The Guardian, the Voice of America, BBC News and The Washington Post.