Barış Alpaslan
Associate Professor of Economics, Social Sciences University of Ankara
Baris Alpaslan is an Associate Professor of Economics at Social Sciences University of Ankara Department of Economics. Dr. Alpaslan has also been serving as an Associate Dean at the Faculty of Political Science. Prior to this post, Dr. Alpaslan was a faculty member at Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University Department of Public Finance. Dr. Alpaslan completed his MSc (Econ) on which he received an award of distinction at the University of Manchester, and holds a PhD (Econ) from the same university. Dr. Alpaslan is also a research associate and/or research fellow at the Global Development Institute (GDI), University of Manchester, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Australian National University, and the Sheffield Institute for International Development (SIID), University of Sheffield, as well as at Economic Research Forum (ERF) in Cairo, Egypt. In addition, Dr. Alpaslan is serving on an expert committee for the 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development Goals at the Turkish National Commission for UNESCO and undertakes consultancy work at the World Bank and African Development Bank. His research interests focus broadly on the macroeconomics of growth, inequality and development.
Areas of Interest:
- Growth Theory
- Development Macroeconomics
- Poverty Reduction
- Human Development
Education:
- Ph.D. in Economics, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, September 2012-July 2014 (with no corrections)
- M.Res in Economics, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, September 2011-September 2012
- M.Sc. in Economics, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, September 2010-September 2011 (with an award of Distinction)
Experience:
- Consultant, African Development Bank, August 2020-Present
- Consultant, International Centre for Migration Policy Development, May 2020-Present
- Consultant, World Bank, March 2019-Present
- Serving on an expert committee for the 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development Goals at the Turkish National Commission for UNESCO, October 2018-
Latest Publications:
- Alpaslan, B. and Yildirim, J. (2020). The Missing Link: Are Individuals with More Social Capital in Better Health? Evidence from India. Social Indicators Research, 150(3), 811-834.
- Alpaslan, B., Lim K. Y., and Song Y. (2020). Growth and Welfare in Mixed Health System Financing with Physician Dual Practice in a Developing Economy: A Case of Indonesia. International Journal of Health Economics and Management, available online.
- Yildirim, J., Alpaslan, B. and Eker, E. E. (2020). The Role of Social Capital in Environmental Protection Efforts. Evidence from Turkey. Journal of Applied Statistics, available online.
- Alpaslan, B., Kayaoglu, A., Meckl, J., Naval, J., Vanore, M., and Ziesemer, T. H. W. (2021). Economic Effects of Remittances on Migrants' Country of Origin. In Kourtit K., Newbold B., Nijkamp P., Partridge M. (eds) The Economic Geography of Cross-Border Migration, Springer, Cham.
