Prof Dr Markus Loewe
Research programme: Transformation of Economic and Social Systems
Function: Project Lead & Senior Researcher
Specialization: Economy
Work areas:
- Social Protection
- Pro-poor growth / inclusive growth
- Development Co-operation with the MENA region
- Governance and Investment Climate
- Development and promotion of small and medium enterprises
- Industrial policy
- Demographic change
- Regional Coordinator Near and Middle East, North Africa
Responsibilities in education and training:
- Poverty reduction
- The post-2015 agenda
- Pro-poor growth
- Human development
- Social protection
- Labour market policies
- Development cooperation with the Middle East and North Africa region
Vita
| since 1/2018 | German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) (until 6/2022 German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)) Researcher, Research Programme "Transformation of Economic and Social Systems" |
| since 2023 | Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences Honorary Professor for "Social Protection and Inclusive Growth" in the Department of Social Policy and Social Security |
| 2015 | Offer of a chair at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg rejected (W3 Professorship for Economy and Society of the Middle East) |
| 1999-12/2017 | German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) Senior Researcher Team leader of research projects on "Pro-poor growth in India and Brazil" (2007-2009), "Social Impacts of the global financial and economic crisis" (2010-2012) and "Political economy of pro-poor growth" (2013-2014) Coordinator for DIE's research on countries in the Middle East and North Africa (since 2006) |
| 2002-2004 | Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg Faculty of Economics and Social Science PhD-student (economics) Thesis on "Social Protection and the Informal Sector. The case of the Arab world with special reference to the potential of the micro-insurance concept" (Dr. rer. pol.) |
| 1999 | International Labour Organization Sub-Directorate for Arab States Intern |
| 1995-1998 | Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen Dipl.-Volkswirt (grad. rer. pol.) Student of economic theory; international economic policy; public finance; political science and Arab language |
| 1996 | Friedrich Ebert-Foundation Jerusalem office for the Palestinian territories Internship |
| 1994-1995 | University of Damascus Academic year |
| 1991-1994 | Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen and Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuernberg cand. rer. pol. student of economic theory, political science, modern history and Arab language |
Member of
- Advisory Board of the Poverty, Equity and Growth Network (PEGNET)
- Advisory Board of the applied research project on the inclusion of persons with disabilities in systems of social protection
- Working group “Social Protection” of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes
Awards
Research Award by the Josef Popper-Nährpflicht-Foundation, University of Frankfurt, for the Master Thesis on "Social protection schemes in the Palestinian territories" (1998)
Contact
E-mail Markus.Loewe@idos-research.de
Phone +49 (0)228 94927-154
Fax +49 (0)228 94927-130
Highlight
Resume support for the agency for Palestine refugees
Loewe, Markus (2024)
The Current Column of 23 April 2024
Highlight
Handbook on social protection systems
Schüring, Esther / Markus Loewe (eds.)
Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar
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Handbook on social protection systems
Schüring, Esther / Markus Loewe (eds.) (2021)
Multimedia Handbook on Litello
In the media
The social contract as a tool of analysis: introduction to the special issue on “Framing the evolution of new social contracts in Middle Eastern and North African countries”
Loewe, Markus / Tina Zintl / Annabelle Houdret (2020)
in: World Development, 4 May 2020 (online first)