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Associate Professor (Reader) in development economics, Dr, Ph.D. in Economics
Ralitza Dimova is a development economist, who joined the Global Development Institute of the University of Manchester in 2010. She graduated from the Catholic University of Leuven with a PhD in Economics and subsequently worked as a researcher in a number of countries, including France, Germany and the US. Prior to that she lived and worked for two years in India. Her current research focuses on labour market issues in less developed countries, particularly those in Francophone West Africa and the Middle East and North Africa. She is particularly interested in the implications of intra-household decision making and social norms for labour market outcomes and food security. Her recent and ongoing field work involves behavioural field experiments.
Funded Research Projects:
Ralitza is welcoming ph.d. applications in the area of development microeconomics (including behavioural development microeconomics). She is mainly interested in research related to labour market and population issues, particularly in the domain of social norms and intrahousehold allocation of resources.
She has led to completion the following ph.d. projects:
As principal supervisor:
Lina Khrais: Determinants and consequences of female labour force participation in Jordan: A mixed-methods approach.
Peter Agamile: Weather shocks, gender and intrahousehold dynamics in Uganda.
Virgi Sari: State of art in social exclusion in Indonesia: does the social protection scheme protect the excluded.
Kevwe Pela: Structural transformation and the dynamics of entrepreneurship in developing countries: the Nigerian labour market perspective.
Olabimtan Adebowale: Financial sector development and household welfare: micro evidence from Nigeria.
As second supervisor:
Graham Whitham: Child poverty in the UK.
Juliet Ongwae: User participation in ICTD systems development. The case of mobile money interventions in Kenya.
Lawrence Ado Kofie: Distributional dimensions of educational access and attainment in Ghana.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Doctor of Social Science, Labor market evolution during structural reform and crisis, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Award Date: 1 Jan 2005
Research fellow, IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor), Bonn
2010 → …
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Hulme, D., Anderson, K., Bottacin Busolin, A., Dimova, R., Foster, T., Harou, J., Imai, K., Larkin, A., Lavers, T., Mancarella, P., Mutale, J., Panteli, M., Sen, K. & Whittington, D.
1/10/17 → 31/12/21
Project: Research