{"id":514,"date":"2025-10-02T03:47:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/loewe-markus\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:47:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:47:51","slug":"loewe-markus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/loewe-markus\/","title":{"rendered":"Loewe Markus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"middle content\">\n<div class=\"column left\" id=\"columnleft\">\n<section class=\"block article author\">\n<div class=\"headline\">\n<h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMarkus Loewe<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-content\">\n<div class=\"about-author\">\n<div class=\"img border\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/loewe-markus\/657856-1-eng-gb\/loewe-markus_author.jpg\" alt=\"Loewe Markus\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Markus Loewe is senior economist at the German Development Institute \/ Deutsches Institut f\u00fcr Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) (Bonn), where he has been working since 1999. He studied economics, political science and Arabic in T\u00fcbingen, Erlangen and Damascus and got his PhD from the University of Heidelberg for a thesis on micro-insurance schemes. His main areas of interest are social protection, poverty reduction \/ MDGs and investment promotion in developing countries. In addition, he has also published on demographic development, pro-poor growth, anti-corruption policies, economic governance, private sector development and the impact of the recent global financial and economic crisis. His most recent publications include <i>The global financial crisis and the Arab world: impact, reactions and consequences (2010, <\/i>in: Mediterranean Politics 15, 1, 45-71, with Juliane Brach); <i>Pension schemes and pension reforms in the Middle East and North Africa<\/i> (2009, Geneva:<i>&nbsp;<\/i>&nbsp;UNRISD); <i>How favoritism affects the business climate: Empirical evidence from Jordan <\/i>(2008, in: The Middle East Journal 62, 2, 259\u2013276, with Jonas Blume und Johanna Speer).<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section class=\"content column wide left author content view\" id=\"content\">\n<article class=\"fader\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"body contents\">\n<div class=\"share\">\n\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n    var addthis_config = {\n        ui_language = 'en'\n    }\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis sharing\">\n\t<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style\" addthis:title=\"Loewe Markus\">\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_twitter\" tw:via=\"thebrokeronline\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_facebook\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_pinterest_share\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_preferred_4\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_compact\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_counter addthis_bubble_style\"><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<p>\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">var addthis_config = data_track_addressbar;<\/script><br \/>\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/js\/300\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n\t<!-- AddThis Button END -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"addthis article_options\">\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"children\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<section class=\"children related\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"wleft\">\n<div class=\"img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/post-2015-shaping-a-global-agenda\/more-is-not-always-better\/\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/blogs\/post-2015-shaping-a-global-agenda\/more-is-not-always-better\/658081-1-eng-gb\/more-is-not-always-better_column.jpg\" alt=\"More is not always better\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"wright\">\n<header>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/post-2015-shaping-a-global-agenda\/more-is-not-always-better\/\">More is not always better<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/loewe-markus\/\">Markus Loewe<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t08 October 2025<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/header>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n\t\t\tIf we want the new global development agenda to be manageable, it is perhaps better to design a small set of end goals similar to the original MDGs, instead of a new wish list.\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/post-2015-shaping-a-global-agenda\/more-is-not-always-better\/\">read more<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"navigator\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false,"raw":""},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Markus Loewe Markus Loewe is senior economist at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template_3.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-514","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - 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