Markus Loewe

Research Team Leader, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

Markus Loewe is Research Team Leader at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), in Bonn, Germany, and Honorary Professor for Social Protection and Inclusive Growth at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Science. He studied development economics and political science in Tübingen, Erlangen and Damascus and received his PhD from Heidelberg University. In 2015, the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg offered him a chair in economics. His research focuses on social protection, poverty reduction, industrial policymaking, small and medium enterprise development, effects of corruption, demographic development and the concept of the social contract. His regional focus is the Middle East and North Africa. His more recent publications include “Drivers of change in social contracts in the MENA region” (special issue, Mediterranean Politics, 2024, ed. and main author of the conceptual article), “Disentangling the relationship between social protection and social cohesion: introduction to the special issue” (special issue, European Journal of Development Research, 2022, ed. with F. Burchi and D. Malerba), “Framing the emergence of new social contracts in Middle East and North African countries” (special issue, World Development, 2021), and “Handbook of social protection systems” (Edward Elgar, 2021, ed. with E. Schüring) and “Social protection in the MENA countries: prospects for a new social contract?” (special issue, International Social Security Review, 2018, ed. with R. Jawad).