Focal areas of research

Informal entrepreneurship in developing countries

Structural change and its inequality and poverty implications

Natural resources, economic development, and violent conflict

Current projects

• Economic, institutional, and social constraints to informal entrepreneurs (World Bank, IZA)
• Climate Protection, Development and Equity: Decarbonization in Developing Countries and Countries in Transition (BMBF)
• Large-scale agricultural investments and Sustainable Development (BMBF)
• Integrated modelling of land-use changes at rainforest margins in Indonesia (DFG)

Selected concluded projects

• Natural resources - a risk factor? Natural resources and violence in Non-OECD countries (DFG)
• Driving Forces of Rural Poverty and Distributional Change in Sub-Saharan Africa (DFG)
• Trade and poverty

Publications

• List of publications at IDEAS
• Selected publications