Dirk Kohnert (GIGA--Institut für Afrika-Studien, Hamburg, Germany)

Submitted: Thurs, 21 December 2006


Dr. Dirk Kohnert
GIGA-Institut für Afrika-Studien
(Institute of African Affairs)
GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
Neuer Jungfernstieg 21
D -- 20354
Hamburg
Germany

phone:   49-40-42825-520/523
fax.:    49-40-42825-511
e-mail:  Kohnert@giga-hamburg.de

Web site: http://www.giga-hamburg.de/


Activities: deputy director & senior research fellow; managing editor of 
'Afrika Spectrum'

Applied research on current problems of socio-economic development in 
Africa south of the Sahara ; social dimension of SAP (structural 
adjustment program) ; socio-cultural dimension of development ; 
development planning ; rural development in West-Africa.


Research interests:

(1) Cultures of innovation and development in transitional African 
societies; the impact of cultural innovations in the informal sector of 
the economy and politics on sustainable development.

(2) Comparative study of the political economy of occult belief systems 
and their impact on development in African and Caribbean States

Field research in Benin, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar, Nigeria, and in Togo.

You can access some of my recent papers on the Social Science Research 
Network (SSRN) at: http://ssrn.com/author=647124