Dr. Nicky R.M. Pouw

Experience

Research and teaching

Nicky Pouw is assistant professor in the Msc in International Development Studies. She was trained as a development economist at the University of Amsterdam (MA) and at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague (PhD) with an individual NWO-WOTRO fellowship. She completed her PhD on The Characterization and Monitoring of Poverty. Smallholder farmers in rural Uganda at the Free University in 2008 with Professor Jan Wilem Gunning and Professor Chris Elbers. She holds over 10 years of teaching experience in the field of development studies, particularly in courses on household economics, poverty analysis, research methodologies, development theories, and gender and development. Nicky has been involved in multiple research projects on poverty assessment, gender mainstreaming, economic literacy, impact of aid, welfare indicators measurement in various countries throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, including Ghana, Uganda, Kenia and Tanzania, and recently in India. Her current research interests lie in the field of inclusive economic development, economic theory and modelling, poverty and inequality, gender and economics, household survey analysis and rural economic development. Currently, she is developing a research line on the theme of 'Inclusive Economics', in which she proposes an alternative approach to economics in response to the recent critique to the economics discipline.

Other functions

External Examiner Cardiff University, UK, Masters International Planning and Development

Member of the Scientific Council African Study Centre, Leiden University

Chair Examination Committee Master and Research Master International Development Studies, University of Amsterdam

NVAO accreditation committees membership  

Msc International Development Studies

Participatory development impact evaluation

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