Lena Giesbert, M.A.

GIGA Institut für Afrika-Studien
Neuer Jungfernstieg 21
20354 Hamburg
Germany

Tel.: +49 (0)40 - 428 25-566
Fax: +49 (0)40 - 428 25-511

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Biographische Angaben:

• Geb. 1979
• Studium der Afrikanistik mit Schwerpunkt Wirtschaft, Politik und Gesellschaft, Kulturwissenschaften und Musikwissenschaft an der Universität Leipzig, 2000-2006; 2006 Magisterarbeit zu ökonomischen Bewältigungsstrategien von Haushalten in Kakamega, Kenia, am Beispiel Migration
• Dissertationsthema: Risk Management Strategies and Financial Markets in Rural Ghana (Prof. Dr. Tilman Brück)
• Beruflicher Werdegang:

• Mitglied im GIGA Forschungsschwerpunkt 3

Gegenwärtige Forschungsthemen:

• Risikomanagementstrategien armer Haushalte, Mikrofinanzierung, Mikroversicherung, Migration und Remittances

Drittmittelprojekte:

•  "Determinanten der Nachfrage nach Mikroversicherungen in Ghana", Laufzeit 2008 - 2010, gefördert durch die DZ-Bank Stiftung

Publikationen:

• 2009 (mit Janina Voss): „Marktbasierte Armutsreduzierung“? Mikroversicherung als Instrument der sozialen Sicherung, GIGA Focus Global, Nr. 10/2009, Hamburg: GIGA (Volltext)

• 2009 (mit Mirko Bendig und Susan Steiner): Savings, Credit and Insurance: Household Demand for Formal Financial Services in Rural Ghana, GIGA Working Paper No 94, January 2009, Hamburg (Abstract & full article)

• 2008: „Magic Microfinance“ – bald auch eine Erfolgsgeschichte für Afrika? GIGA Focus Afrika, Nr. 9/2008, Hamburg: GIGA (Volltext)

• 2008 (:Andreas Mehler, Ulf Engel, Jenny Kuhlmann, Christian von Soest): Structural Stability: On the prerequisites of Nonviolent Conflict Management, GIGA Working Paper No 75, April 2008, Hamburg (Abstract & full article)

• 2007: Seeking Opportunities: Migration as an Income Diversification Strategy of Households in Kakamega District in Kenya, GIGA Working Paper No 58, September 2007, Hamburg (Abstract & full article)

• 2007: Millennium Development Goals – zu hohe Ziele für Afrika? GIGA Focus Afrika, Nr. 8/2007, Hamburg: GIGA (Volltext)

Vorträge:

• "Assets, Shocks and Poverty Traps in Rural Mozambique", Fifth IZA/World Bank Conference Employment and Development, IZA, World Bank, Cape Town, South Africa, May 3, 2010

• "Assets, Shocks and Poverty Traps in Rural Mozambique", Spring Meeting of Young Economists (SMYE 2010), CEPS/INSTEAD Research Institute, University of Luxembourg, Luxemburg, April 15, 2010 (agenda)

• "Locating Innovative Strategies: Microinsurance and Management of Risk in Rural Ghana" (paper giver), 3rd European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), AEGIS, Uni Leipzig, Leipzig, June 6, 2009

• "More Than Just Credit: Household Demand for (Micro) Financial Services in Rural Ghana" (paper giver), First European Research Conference on Microfinance: 2-3-4 June 2009 - Brussels, Belgium, CERMI, ULB Brüssel, June 3, 2009

•  "Financial Literacy and the Use of Financial Services in Rural Ghana", 6th Development Dialogue "Current Trends in Development Studies", Institute of Social Studies, Den Haag,  June 5-6 , 2008

•  "More Than Just Credit: Household Demand for (Micro)Financial Services in Rural Ghana", The Third Annual Conference of the Poverty Reduction, Equity and Growth Network (PEGNet) on "Assessing Development Impact - Learning from Experience", Accra, Ghana, September 11-12, 2008

• "Seeking opportunities: individual and household factors determining migration in Kakamega District, Kenya", BIOTA-Workshop E14, Nairobi,
  29.1.2007, Kakamega, 31.1.2007

• "Determinants of the demand for microinsurance of low-income households in Africa and Latin America - The cases of Ghana and Peru", Project outline, Area Studies and Comparative Area Studies, European Workshop, Hamburg, 12.-13.4.2007