Research programme:Transformation of Economic and Social Systems
Function: Project Lead & Senior Researcher
Specialization: Economy
Work areas:
Responsibilities in education and training:
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 |
Research Award by the Josef Popper-Nährpflicht-Foundation, University of Frankfurt, for the Master Thesis on "Social protection schemes in the Palestinian territories" (1998)
Resume support for the agency for Palestine refugees
Loewe, Markus (2024)
The Current Column of 23 April 2024
Handbook on social protection systems
Schüring, Esther / Markus Loewe (eds.)
Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar
Handbook on social protection systems
Schüring, Esther / Markus Loewe (eds.) (2021)
Multimedia Handbook on Litello
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)