Marion J. Eeckhout

Marion Eeckhout pursues her PhD project about institutional gaps in state-business relations on a parttime basis since January 2012. She joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1991 as a senior technical advisor on micro and macro economic issues. From 1981 to 1991 she worked for the UN and private consultancy firms on long term and short term missions in several countries in East and West Africa as a technical consultant on micro and macro economic issues. Her research interests pertain to micro-macro linkages in poverty reduction strategies; the role of social capital in state-business relations; and institutional political economy.

She published on the gender dimension of the informal productive sector in Tunisia; on the use of social cost benefit analysis for gender impact in Egypt; on the effectiveness of development aid; on the support to fast track development with balance of payment support; on micro-macro linkages of the economic reform programs in Tanzania and on the disconnect between formal and informal institutions in the private productive sector in Tanzania. Her publications as a consultant are available on request.