• Welcome to the Team of the Development Research Group
    of Prof. Anke Hoeffler

    from left to right: Dr. Ana García, Petra Rietzler, Jule Beck, Dr. Liliana Abreu, Prof. Dr. Anke Hoeffler, Alina Greiner

  • MA Seminar: Big Ideas in Development

    This Summer semester, Anke taught a class on theoretical foundations of development economics. Why do economies grow? Why are some countries poorer than others? How do we measure development? After some introduction classes, we organized a student symposium where each participant presented a seminal book in the field.

  • Is Chinese Aid Different?

    New Paper by Prof. Anke Hoeffler and Dr. Olivier Sterck

  • Positive Parenting Program - Reducing violence against children

    About 17.5% of children globally are subjected to parental violence. How can we adress this problem?