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Katharina van Treeck (née Trapp)

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Katharina van Treeck (née Trapp)
German Institute for Global and Area Studies | Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien

German Institute for Global and Area Studies | Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien

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Short CV

  • Since 07/2017: Associate Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute for African Affairs

  • 10/2012 - 06/2017: Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies

  • 2012: Research assistant at the chair of Development Economics, Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany

  • 2010 - 2012: Student assistant and tutor at the chair of Development Economics, Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany

  • 2006 - 2010: Interships at Jilin Agricultural University in Changchun, China (2010), at the Asia Foundation in Essen, Germany (2009), at the Bambusschule e.V. in Luang Prabang, Laos (2008) and at the German State Parliament in Düsseldorf, Germany (2006)

  • Education: Study of Politics and Economics (B.A.) at the University of Münster (2006-2009) and study of International Economics with focus on development economics (M.A.) at the University of Göttingen (2009-2012) and Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics in Pune, India (2011)

Current Research

  • Social and ecological sustainability of cocoa cultivation (Indonesia)

  • Income Distribution (between Capital and Labor), International Capital Flows and Inequality

Countries and Regions

  • Indonesia

Research Programmes

  • Globalization and Development


Dissertation

  • The Role of Labor in Sustainable Development

Katharina van Treeck (née Trapp)

Associate

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Publications

CRC-PEG Discussion Papers | 2017

Cash crops as a sustainable pathway out of poverty? Panel data evidence on the heterogeneity of cocoa farmers in Sulawesi, Indonesia

Elisabeth Hettig

Prof. Dr. Jann Lay

Katharina van Treeck (née Trapp)

Martin Bruness

Dewi Nur Asih

Dr. Nunung Nuryartono

CRC-PEG Discussion Papers | 01/2017

Financial Globalization and the Labor Share in Developing Countries: The Type of Capital Matters

Katharina van Treeck (née Trapp)

Associate

Konstantin M. Wacker

Contribution | 11/2016

Wages in Asia and the Pacific and the Arab States

Katharina van Treeck (née Trapp)

Associate

Cuntao Xia

UNU WIDER Working Paper | 04/2015

Measuring the labour income share of developing countries: Learning from social accounting matrices

Katharina van Treeck (née Trapp)

Associate

EFForTS Discussion Paper Series | 2015

Rubber vs. Oil Palm: An Analysis of Factors Influencing Smallholders’ Crop Choice in Jambi, Indonesia

Stefan Schwarze

Michael Euler

Marcel Gatto

Jonas Hein

Elisabeth Hettig

Anna Maria Holtkamp

Lufti Izhar

Yvonne Kunz

Prof. Dr. Jann Lay

Jenny Merten

Stefan Moser

Oliver Mußhoff

Fenna Otten

Prof. Dr. Matin Qaim

Endriatmo Soetarto

Stefanie Steinebach

Katharina van Treeck (née Trapp)

Miriam Vorlaufer

Heiko Faust

Teaching

Teaching | University of Göttingen | 2015

Controversies in Development Economics

University of Göttingen Göttingen Germany

Teaching | University of Göttingen | 2013

Development Economics I

University of Göttingen Göttingen Germany