Former MADM Student in Bochum (2016)
MADM Thesis: The Impact of Irrigation Technology on Household Food Security: the case of Autonomous Adaptation Project (PAA) in Adami-Tullu Jido Kombolcha.
Former MADM Student in Bochum (2004)
MADM Thesis: Social Capital, Non-Governmental Organizations and Development: A Study of Household Well-Being at Anano Integrated Rural Development Program
Former MADM Student in Cape Town (2010)
MADM Thesis: Impacts of International Migration on Human Capital in Rural Areas of Developing Countries: A Case Study from Nepal
Former PhD Student
PhD Thesis: Entwicklungshilfe und Entwicklung: globale statistische Analyse unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Human Development Index und die Länderbeispiele Botswana und Namibia (2004)
Former MADM Student in Bochum (2010)
MADM Thesis: Overlapping Membership and Intra-Regional Trade: A Case Study of COMESA and ECOWAS
Former MADM Student in Cape Town (2012)
MADM Thesis: The Irrigation and Poverty Nexus. A Case Study on the Effects of Micro-Irrigation on Poverty Alleviation in the Rural Western Hills of Nepal
Former MADM Student in Bochum (2016)
MADM Thesis: The Impact of Online Lending on Financial Inclusion – A Case Study in Colombia
Former MADM Student in Bochum (2004)
MADM Thesis: State-Society Networks and Social Capital: A Case of Political Participation in the Western Cape Province (South Africa)
Former MADM Student in Bochum (2016)
MADM Thesis: The Effect of Microcredit on the Agricultural Output of Smallholder Farmers: A study of the Cooperative of Progress and Financing INEZA in Rwanda
Former MADM Student in Bochum (2018)
MADM Thesis: The recognition of nature's legal standing in Colombia and ist influence on plaintiffs' perspectives on environmental justice: views on the human-nature relationship and interests to claim for judicial environmental protection
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The IEE has more than 400 Alumni working all over the world in positions related to development studies. Alumni include graduates from the MA in Development Management, the PhD in International Development Studies and the previous PhD school as well as former staff members.
Alumni of projects coordinated by the IEE, such as the South African – German Centre for Development Research and the Erasmus Mundus Action 2 project EUSA_ID will add to the Alumni community of the IEE.
It is our aim to keep ties with our Alumni for mutual benefit. Ideally, participation in one of our programmes or projects is only the starting point for life-long exchange and learning.
With the growing number of Alumni especially from our MA in Development Management programme (currently around 350) we have intensified our Alumni activities which include:
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More information: "Publications / New Publications"
Nov 13.11. - 14.11.2023
Simon Rahn
Development Dialogue Konferenz (DD19), International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague, NL
May 28.5. - 31.5.2023
Britta Niklas
Greece, Crete, 2nd annual conference of the European Association of Wine Economists (EUAWE)
Apr 16.4. - 22.4.2023
Irene Among
South Africa, Cape Twon, UWC, Lecture
Apr 3.4. - 7.4.2023
Irene Among
UK, Studies Conference
Mar 18.3. - 4.4.2023:
Britta Niklas
South Africa, Cape Twon, UWC, Lecture
Feb 11.02. - 27.02.2023:
Wilhelm Löwenstein
South Africa, Cape Twon, UWC, Lecture
Jan 07.01. -25.01.2023:
Elkhan Sadik-Zada
South Africa, Cape Town, UWC, Lecture