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Curriculum Vitae (CV) September 2011 |
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VU
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Education |
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1995 |
PhD Economics, |
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1991 |
M.A. Economics, |
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1989 |
Doctoraal (M.A.)
Econometrics,
Erasmus University Rotterdam (Econometric Institute), graduated Cum Laude
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Awards |
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1992
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Harvard
Program in Ethics and the Professions Graduate Fellowship |
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1989
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Special interests |
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Empirical
microeconomics / microeconometrics ·
Globalization,
wages around the world, manufacturing, development, gender ·
Survey
methodology in developing countries |
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Skills |
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Language: |
English,
Dutch (fluent), French, German (fair), Russian (basic) |
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Econometric
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Stata
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Professional career |
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2009 – present |
Resource Person.
African Economic Research Consortium |
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2009
– 2010 |
Lecturer. GPIO,
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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2005
– present |
Associate Professor. VU University, |
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2004
– present |
Research Fellow. Tinbergen Institute, The
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2003
– 2005 |
Lecturer. ISHSS, |
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2000
– present |
Research Associate. Centre for the Study of
African Economies, University of |
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2000
– present |
Fellow. Amsterdam Institute for
International Development |
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1995
– 2005 |
Senior Economist. Economic and Social
Institute, VU University, |
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2002 |
Lecturer. VU University, |
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2002
– 2003 |
Visiting Fellow. Institute for South East
Asian Studies (ISEAS), |
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1994
– 1995 |
Research Assistant. To Professor Richard
Freeman, National Bureau of Economic Research, |
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1994
– 1995 |
Temporary Consultant. For the Division World
Development Report, World Bank, |
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1992
– 1993 |
Graduate Fellow. In the Program in Ethics
and the Professions, |
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1991
– 1994 |
Teaching Fellow. Department of Economics
and Department of Political Science, |
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1989 |
Research Fellow. Department of
Philosophy, |
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1986
– 1989 |
Teaching and Research
Assistant.
Econometric Institute, |
Funded Research Projects
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Globalization, Wages around the World, Gender Projects
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Labor market demand for higher
education skills in Ethiopia (ASSIST-HERQA) (for VU/Nuffic) (2008-2009) ·
Vietnam Economic Research Network (vern) (for IDRC, 2003-2009) ·
Making Markets Work Better for the
Poor, ·
Occupational Wages around the World
(for ILO, 2004) ·
Gender Impacts of Globalization (for
Gender and Development Group, World Bank, 2002-2003) ·
Occupational Wages Around the World and
Changes in Purchasing Power (for ILO, 2001) ·
Inequality,
Trade and Occupational Wages Around The World (with Harvard/LSE and World
Bank, 2001). ·
Labor Market
Flexibility Study in The Netherlands using Household and Firm Panel Data (for
Organisation for Strategic Labor Market Studies (osa), 1999-2000). ·
Study of
Labor Market Flexibility in The Netherlands using Household and Firm Panel
Data (for Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy (wrr), 1996-1997). Manufacturing and Development Research Projects · Cambodia Investment Climate Assessment 2011-2012
(for World Bank). Survey design, sampling, training and analysis. · Cambodia
Rapid Business Survey (for World Bank, 2009). Survey design, sampling,
training and analysis. ·
Investment Climate Assessment among
Manufacturing and Service Enterprises in ·
Vietnam Economic Research Network (vern) (for IDRC, 2003-2009) ·
Investment Climate Assessment among
Manufacturing, Service and Non-Farm Household Enterprises in ·
Poverty
Monitoring and Social Sector Project (Education and Health), ·
Evaluation of
Efficient Targeting of Social Assistance in ·
Manufacturing Sector Survey among
Textile and Garments Firms, ·
Manufacturing Sector Survey, ·
Demand for Health Care in Malaysia,
Institut Kesihatan Umum, Ministry of Health, Malaysia (for World Bank/ASEM
Trust Fund Assistance Project, 1999-2001). ·
Manufacturing Sector Survey |
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Benefit incidence and risk management
analysis of the Second National Health and Morbidity Survey (with Ministry of
Health, ·
Globalization and Firm Performance in
The ·
Household
Enterprise Survey in the Province of Hué (for masced
Program, VU University Amsterdam/University of Hué, 1997). Survey design and
pilot. ·
Manufacturing Sector Survey Other Research Projects
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Farm Study of Agricultural Transition towards
Sustainable Land Use in Africa and The ·
Study of
demand and supply in the World Jute Market (for Commodities and Trade
Division, fao, 1995-1996). |
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Missions |
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Benin
(2000), Cambodia (2007,2009,2011), Ethiopia (2008,2009), Ghana (1996), Kenya
(1998,2006), Malaysia (1998, 1999, 2000), Moldova (2002, 2003), Mongolia
(2003,2004,2005), Philippines (1998), South-Africa (1999), Vietnam
(1997,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006, 2007,2008, 2009), Zimbabwe (1996). |
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2011 |
Ph.D.
Committee, ISS (Pedro Goulart) |
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2010
– present |
B.A.
Course ‘Development and Emerging Markets 2.5’, VU University Amsterdam |
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2009 – 2010 |
M.A. Course ‘Economics of Human
Development’, GPIO, University of Amsterdam, lecturer |
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2008
– present |
MPhil
and PhD Thesis supervisor, Tinbergen Institute (Fujin Zhou) |
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2008 |
MPhil
Thesis committee, Tinbergen Institute (Zoltan Wolf) |
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2008
– present |
MPhil
Course ‘Development Economics’, Tinbergen Institute |
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2007
– present |
B.A.
Course ‘Development Economics 3.4’, VU University |
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2006
– 2010 |
Technical
Workshop on Survey Methodology, African Economic Research Consortium, |
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2005
– present |
M.A.
Course ‘Microeconomics for Development’, VU University |
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2006 – present |
Ph.D.
Committee, VU University (Esaïe Gandonou, Lei Pan, Jacob de Hoop) |
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2005
- 2007 |
Ph.D.
Committee, |
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2003-
2005 |
M.A.
Course ‘Labour, Inequity and Globalisation’, ISHSS, |
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2004
- 2006 |
M.A.
Thesis supervisor, ISHSS, |
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2003
– present |
B.A.
Thesis supervisor, VU University Amsterdam |
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2003 |
External
examiner, ISS and UvA |
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2002
- 2006 |
Co-promotor
Marino Romero |
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2002 |
B.A.
Course ‘Public Economics’, VU University Amsterdam, lecturer |
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1998
– present |
Capacity-building
workshops in |
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1992-1994 |
B.A.
Course ‘Game Theory’, |
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1991 |
B.A.
Course ‘Econ 101’, |
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1989 |
B.A.
Course ‘Microeconomics’, |
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Administrative Experience
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2011
– present |
Member, Worker Council, VU University |
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2010
– present |
Chair, Departmental Library Committee, VU
University |
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2008
– 2010 |
Member,
Departmental Library Committee |
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1999-2005 |
Chair,
Institute Council, Economic and Social Institute, VU University |
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1998-1999 |
Member,
Selection Committee, Director-Professor, Economic and Social Institute, VU
University |
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1997 |
Member,
Selection Committee, Professor, Labor Economics, VU University |
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1994 |
Member,
Organizational Committee, The Political Economy Lecture Series, |
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1988 |
Member,
Selection Committee, Professor, Microeconomics, |
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‘Measuring
the True Sales of Firms with Matched Survey and Tax Office Data’, World Bank
Policy Research Working Paper No. 5628, April 2011 (with Fujin
Zhou).
‘The Impact of Trade Liberalization on the Return to Education
in Vietnam: Wage Versus Employment Effect’, Tinbergen Institute Discussion
Paper No. TI 2011-060/3, 2011 (with Doan Hong Quang).
‘Understanding Adoption of Soil and Water Conservation
Techniques: The role of new owners’, CSAE Working Paper WPS/2011-05, 2011 (with
Fred Zaal)
‘Weathering the Storm: Input
Smoothing by Cambodian Firms during the Global Financial Crisis’, VU
University, 2011 (with Stephane Guimbert, work in progress)
Published and Forthcoming
Research
‘Globalization and the
Gender Wage Gap’, The World Bank Economic
Review, 23(1), 2009.
‘The Changing Role of
Non-Farm Household Enterprises in Vietnam’,
World Development, 37(3), 2009 (with
Tran Quoc Trung and Nguyen Thanh Tung)
‘Beyond population
growth: Intensification and conservation in dryland small-scale Agriculture;
Machakos and Kitui Districts, Kenya’, in Sustainable
Land Management in the Tropics: Explaining the Miracle (K. Burger and F.
Zaal, eds.), February 2009, Ashgate Publishing (with Fred Zaal)
‘Farm and household
level drivers of agricultural innovation in Machakos and Kitui districts,
Kenya’, in Sustainable Land Management in
the Tropics: Explaining the Miracle (K. Burger and F. Zaal, eds.), February
2009, Ashgate Publishing (with Fred Zaal)
‘The productivity of
indigenous soil and water conservation in Benin’, in Sustainable Land Management in the Tropics: Explaining the Miracle
(K. Burger and F. Zaal, eds.), February 2009, Ashgate Publishing (with Esaïe
Gandonou)
‘Regional Labor Market
Integration’, in Market, Policy and
Poverty Reduction in Vietnam, National Political Publisher (Henrik Hansen
and Nguyen Thang, eds.), 2007,
‘Determinants and Impacts of
Migration in
‘Adjustment Costs and Irreversibility
as Determinants of Investment: Evidence from African Manufacturing’, Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy, 4(1), article 12, 2005, (with ISA group).
‘Determinants of
Manufacturing Exports: Results from a Regional Firm-Level Survey in
‘Measuring the Productivity from Indigenous Soil and
Water Conservation Technologies with Household Fixed Effects: A Case Study of
Hilly-Mountainous Areas of Bénin’, Economic Development and Cultural Change,
vol. 52, January 2004, pp.313-46 (with
A. Adégbidi and
‘Do
African Manufacturing Firm Learn from Exporting?’, Journal of Development Studies, 2004, 40(3), pp.115-41 (with ISA
group).
‘Risk Sharing in African
Labour Markets’, The World Bank Economic
Review, 2003, vol. 17, no. 4, pp.313-46 (with ISA).
'On the Use of Cost
Benefit Analysis for the Evaluation of Farm Household Investments in Natural
Resource Conservation’, Environment and Development Economics,
2003, vol. 8, pp.331-349 (with H. Hoogeveen).
‘Is European
Wage-Setting Different? Evidence from the Occupational Wages Around the World
Data File’, in Institutions and Wage
Formation in the New
‘Credit
Constraints in Manufacturing Enterprises in
‘South
African Manufacturing in an African Context: Findings from Nine Firm-level
Surveys’, South African Journal of
Economics, 70(7), 2002, December (with W. Naudé and P. Serumaga-Zake).
Industrial Change in Africa:
Micro Evidence on Zimbabwean Firms under Structural Adjustment, 2002, February, Palgrave,
374 pp. (edited with J.W. Gunning).
‘Introduction’
and ‘Conclusion’, in Industrial Change in
‘The
RPED
‘Firm
and Product Market Characteristics’, in Industrial
Change in
‘Investment’,
in Industrial Change in
‘R&D
and export performance: Taking account of simultaneity’, in Innovation and Firm Performance (A.
Kleinknecht and P. Mohnen, eds.), 2002,
‘Explaining
a Miracle. Intensification and the Transition towards Sustainable Small-scale
Agriculture in Dryland Machakos and
‘Wages
around the World: Pay across Occupations and Countries’, in Inequality Around the World, 2002, July,
‘Exporting
and Efficiency in African Manufacturing’, in Policies to Promote Competitiveness in Manufacturing in Sub-Saharan
Africa, (Augustin Kwasi Fosu, Saleh M. Nsouli, Aristomène Varoudakis,
eds.), OECD, Paris, 2001 (with ISA group).
‘The Occupational Wages
around the World Data File’, ILO Labour Review, 2001, Fall Issue (with R.B.
Freeman).
‘Inventories
and Risk in African Manufacturing’, The
Economic Journal, vol. 110, no. 466, October 2000, pp.861-93 (with M.
Fafchamps and J.W. Gunning).
‘Contract
Flexibility and Dispute Resolution in African Manufacturing’, vol. 36, no. 4,
2000, Journal of Development Studies
(with ISA group).
‘Rates
of return on physical and human capital in
‘Health Care Demand
Analysis: Models and Policy Simulation for
‘Investment
in
‘Exports
of African Manufactures: Macro Policy and Firm Behaviour’, The Journal of International Trade and Development, vol. 8, no. 1,
1999, pp. 53-71 (with ISA group).
‘Flexibiliteit en Prestaties’, Economisch Statistische Berichten (ESB),
November 1997, pp. 869-70 (with A. Kleinknecht and M. Pradhan, in Dutch).
‘On
the Stability of the Social Security System’, in: Gustafsson and Klevmarken
(eds.), The Political Economy of Social
Security, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., 1989 (with Bernhard M.S. Van
Praag)
‘Omslagstelsel en Werkgelegenheid’, Economisch Statistische Berichten (ESB),
1987, pp. 548-553 (with Bernhard M.S. Van Praag, in Dutch)
‘Productivity, Firm Performance and the Investment Climate in Cambodia’, report to World Bank, June 2008.
‘The
Standardized ILO October Inquiry 1983-2003’, report to ILO, January 2005, 30
pp.
‘Failing
to Compete. Technology Development and Technology Systems in Africa” (
‘Health
Care, Health Risks and Poverty’ and ‘Education and Poverty’, in ‘Policy
Performance Report 2002’, Poverty and Policy Monitoring Unit, Ministry of
Economy Moldova (with N. Opopol and A. Munteanu), 2004, 41 pp.
‘Flexibility in the Dutch Labor Market. An empirical investigation using the OSA-demand- and supply panels’, report to the Organisation for Strategic Labor Market Studies (OSA), 2000, 106 pp. (with W. Zant, R. Alessie and M. Pradhan, in Dutch).
‘The
RPED Surveys in Africa’, chapter for the annual report for SANPAD,
Manufacturing Sector Survey, North West Province of South Africa, 1999, 17 pp.
‘The
impact of globalization on enterprises’, report to the Organisation for
Strategic Labor Market Studies (OSA), OSA-document, 1998, 63 pp. (with A.
Kleinknecht, in Dutch).
‘Patterns
and economic consequences of flexibility in the Dutch labor market’, report to
the Scientific Council for Government Policy in The Netherlands (WRR), V99, Sdu
Publishers, 1997, 94 pp. (with A. Kleinknecht and M. Pradhan, in Dutch).
‘MASCED.
Micro and small scale enterprise development’, report to MASCED
‘A
model of the markets for jute and jute goods’, report to the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), ESI-VU, Amsterdam, 1996,
146 pp. (with K. Burger).
‘Regional
Program on Enterprise Development: Report on Round III of the Zimbabwe Survey’,
report to the World Bank, RPED paper
#054, 1995, 91 pp.
Conference,
Fifteenth World Congress of the
International Economic Association, Beijing, July 2011, “Labor
Markets Turn Global: Pay across occupations and countries in the new Occupational
Wages around the World data file 1953-2008”, invited session
lecture.
Seminar,
FADO, VU University Amsterdam, February 2010, “Measuring the True Sales of
Firms with Matched Survey and Tax Office Data”, lecture.
Conference, Regional Risk
Management in East Asia, East Asian Economic Association, Manila,
November 2008, “The Changing Role of Non-Farm Household Enterprises in
Vietnam”, lecture.
Seminar,
Göteborg University, Department of Economics, May 2008, lecture.
Seminar,
Centre for the Study of African Economies,
Workshop, World Bank Bangkok,
“Economic Policy and Gender Capacity Building in East Asia Workshop”, October
2005, lecture.
Symposium, ASiA, University
of Amsterdam, “A Better Investment Climate for Everybody?”, December 2004,
panel lecture.
Seminar, World Bank,
Washington D.C., “Globalization, Poverty, and Gender”, May 2004, “Globalization
and the Gender Wage Gap?”, lecture.
Seminar, University of
Utrecht, April 2004, ‘Globalization and the Gender Wage Gap’, lecture.
Conference, ADB-IDRC Seminar on Poverty, Trade, and
Growth: Issues in Sustainable Development, Manila, October 2003, “Trade, development
and Poverty Reduction: Integration Issues”, discussant.
Seminar, Institute of
Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, March 2003, “Does Globalization Reduce the
Gender Wage Gap?”, lecture.
Seminar, World Bank Resident
Mission Jakarta, January 2003, “Does Globalization Reduce the Gender Wage
Gap?”, lecture.
Seminar, World Bank,
Washington D.C., “Globalization, Poverty, and Gender”, June 2002, “Does
Globalization Reduce the Gender Wage Gap?”, lecture.
Seminar, ECODO, VU
University, Amsterdam, 2002 ,“Wages around the World”, lecture.
Conference, Development Policy in Africa: Public and
Private Perspectives, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University
of Oxford, March 2001, “Are larger firms really more successful at exporting?”,
lecture.
Seminar, Centre for the Study
of African Economies, University of Oxford, January 2001, “Measuring the
Productivity from Indigenous Soil and Water Conservation Technologies with
Household Fixed Effects: A Case Study of Hilly-Mountainous Areas of Bénin”, lecture.
International Conference on
Evidence-based Practice: Towards
Evidence-based Policymaking in Health Sector Development, Kuala Lumpur,
September 2000, “Health Care Demand Analysis”, lecture.
Conference, ABCDE Europe 2000, Development Thinking at
the Millenium, Paris, June 2000, “Can Africa Export Manufactures?”,
discussant.
Conference, Opportunities in Africa: Micro-evidence on
firms and households, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University
of Oxford, April 2000, “Manufacturing investment and exports in South Africa:
first results from a firm-level survey”, lecture.
Conference, Opportunities in Africa: Micro-evidence on
firms and households, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University
of Oxford, April 2000, “Returns to social capital”, discussant.
Seminar,
Université Nationale du Bénin,
Conference,
Twelfth World Congress of the
International Economic Association,
Seminar,
Mid-Term
Conference, NWO Program Agricultural
Transition towards Sustainable Land Use in Africa and The Philippines,
University of Wageningen, November 1998, “Investment in Soil Conservation in
the Philippines”, lecture.
Opening
Conference, NWO Program Agricultural
Transition towards Sustainable Land Use in Africa and The Philippines,
Conference,
Micro and Macro Aspects of Investment in
Africa, Queen Elizabeth House,