Ramzi Mabsout

As of September 2011 I am assistant professor of economics at the American University of Beirut. I have an MA from the University of Sussex (2004) in development economics and a PhD (2011) from Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands). The thesis, The Capability Approach: From Ethical Foundations to Empirical Operationlization, was supervised by Professors Irene Van Staveren and Esther-Mirjam Sent.

As a consultant, I also worked for international organizations (eg., UNDP) and NGOs (eg., Transparency International). With the UNDP, I contributed to various global reports, including the Human Development Report, among others.

Research interests

My research interests cover a variety of areas including development economics, welfare economics, ethics and economics, micro-econometrics, and economic methodology.

Publications

Peer-reviewed journals

Mabsout, R. (in press). Capability and health functioning in Ethiopian households, Social Indicators Research.

Mabsout, R., (with van Hoorn, A.,  & Sent, E.M.) (2010). Happiness and capability: Theory, measurement and policy, Journal of Socio-Economics, Vol. 39, 3, pp. 339-343.

Mabsout, R., (with van Staveren, I.) (2010). Disentangling bargaining power from individual and household level to institutions: Evidence on women's position in Ethiopia, World Development, Vol. 38, 5, pp. 783-796.

Reports

Best practices in the Least Developed Countries for the seven commitments in the Brussels Programme of Action (2008). UN-OHRLLS. (Co-author with Aleida Ferreyra).

Governance for the future: democracy and development in the Least Developed Countries (2006). UNDP Democratic Governance Group & UN-OHRLLS. (Statistician & co-author).

Human Development Report, International cooperation at a crossroads: aid, trade and security in an unequal world (2005). UNDP, Oxford University Press. (Chapter 2).

Referee

Feminist Economics, Journal of International Development, Journal of Institutional Economics, Journal of Cleaner Production

Teaching

Introduction to economics (econ-211) (present)

Intermediate price theory (econ-217) (present)

Applied econometrics (econ-215) (present)

Economic methodology (senior seminars) (present)

Economic Globalisation and Ethics (Nijmegen) (2008-2009)

Contacts

Dr. Ramzi Mabsout

American University of Beirut

P.O.Box 11-0236 / Economics department

Beirut, Lebanon
Tel: 350000 ext. 4064

Email: rm95@aub.edu.lb