Dr Philip Verwimp

Philip obtained his PhD in Economics from the Catholic University of Leuven in January 2003 with a dissertation on the political economy of development and genocide in Rwanda. He specialises in the economic causes and consequences of conflict at the micro-level. Philip has done quantitative work on the death toll of the genocide and on the demography of post-genocide Rwanda. He currently works on poverty and health in conflict-affected countries. Philip was a Fulbright-Hays Fellow at Yale University and worked for the World Bank as a Poverty Economist. He received the Jacques Rozenberg Award from the Auschwitz Foundation for his dissertation. Philip taught Development Economics at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague and at the Universities of Antwerp, Leuven and Utrecht. Philip is currently a post-doctoral fellow from the Fund for Scientific Research (Flanders, Belgium) at the University of Antwerp and a visiting fellow at ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Poverty; Inequality; Political Economy; Dictatorship; Civil war; Genocide; Human Rights; Household survey analysis; Central Africa.

1. Political economy of development and conflict

      Games in Multiple Arenas and Institutional Design on the eve of the Rwandan genocide, Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, web journal http://www.crp.cornell.edu/peps/Journal/Vol10-No1.htm, based at Cornell University, Winter 2004

      With Bart Capeau and Lode Berlage, Dictatorship in a single export crop economy, November 2003, CES Discussion Paper, Leuven, 34p   download

      The political economy of coffee, dictatorship and genocide, European Journal of Political Economy, vol.19 (2003), p.161-181, June 2003

      In Dutch:

      met I.Thiry, Daders van Genocide bevraagd. Een bijdrage uit de criminologie met veldonderzoek in Rwanda, Panopticon (January 2008) download

      Individueel en Collectief Gedrag tijdens de Rwandese Genocide, Driemaandelijks Tijdschrift van de Auschwitz Stichting, Brussel, januari-maart 2006, p.10-36 download. Een eerdere versie werd gepubliceerd als een economische analyse van het gedrag van daders tijdens de Rwandese genocide, Working Paper, Instituut voor International Recht, KU Leuven, September 2003   download

      Politiek geweld is een keuze: Een essay over genocide met een toepassing op Rwanda, Transaktie, Tijdschrift voor de Wetenschap van Oorlog en Vrede, 28, nr 3, 1999, p.375-396

2. Demography of conflict

      Machetes and Firearms: the Organisation of Massacres in Rwanda, Journal of Peace Research, vol. 43, 1, 5-22, January 2006
(This paper received the Award for Best Paper published in JPR in 2006)

      With Jan Van Bavel, Fertility and Child Survival among Rwandan Refugees, PRUS Working Paper 26, December 2004 and European Journal of Population, Special Issue of the Demography of violent conflict, 21:271-290, 2005   download
(This paper is also published in Demography of Armed Conflict, edited by H. Hegre, E. Tabeau and H. Urdal, Kluwer Academic Press, 2007)

      Death and Survival during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, Population Studies, vol 58, no.2, pp.233-245, 2004   download

      Testing the double genocide thesis for central and southern Rwanda, Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol 47, no. 4, August 2003, pp.423-442   download

3. Development Economics and Development Studies

      With Tom Bundervoet and Richard Akresh, Health and Civil War in Rural Burundi, Journal of Human Resources (forthcoming, 2008)
An earlier version of this paper is available as a Policy Research Paper from the World Bank  download
The new version of the paper is available as Research Working Paper 5, MICROCON   download

      With Patricia Justino, Poverty Dynamics, Violent Conflict and Convergence in Rwanda, Working Paper 16, Households in Conflict Network (2007)  download. Also available as Research Working Paper 4, MICROCON (2008)  download

      With Richard Akresh and Tom Bundervoet, Civil War, Crop Failure, and Child Stunting in Rwanda, Policy Research Paper, World Bank  download

      With Tom Bundervoet, Civil War and Economic Sanctions: Anthropometric Outcomes in Burundi, Working Paper 11, Households in Conflict Network, 2005   download

      With Cecelle Meijer, The Use and Perception of Weapons before and after Conflict: Evidence from Rwanda, Working Paper, Small Arms Survey Geneva, October 2005

      An economic profile of peasant perpetrators of genocide, Journal of Development Economics 77 (2005), p.297-323   download

      With Marijke Verpoorten, What are all the soldiers going to do? Demobilisation, re-intergration and employment in Rwanda, Conflict, Security and Development, 4:1 April 2004, pp.39-57   download

      With Lode Berlage and Marijke Verpoorten, Rural households under extreme stress: survival strategies of poor households in post-genocide Rwanda, Report for the Flemish Interuniversity Council (VLIR), September 2003   download

      Agricultural Policy,crop failure and the Ruriganiza famine (1989) in Southern Rwanda: a pre-lude to Genocide? Centre for Economic Studies, Discussion paper June 2002

      Development Ideology, the Peasantry and Genocide: Rwanda Represented in Habyarimana's Speeches (1973-1994), Journal for Genocide Research, vol 2, no.3, p.325-361, November 2000    Click here for more information.

      The Quality of Education at the Institutional and the Individual level: a case study in rural Ethiopia, International Review of Education 1999, vol 45(2), p.167-196

      Estimating Returns to Off-farm activities in Rural Ethiopia, Ethiopian Journal of Economics, vol V, no.2, October 1996, p.27-54

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4. Contributions to the Debate on Foreign Policy and Public Policy in Belgium

      With Els Vanheusden, The Foreign Policy of Belgium during the Zaire/Congo crisis March 1996-March 1997, in War and Peace in Zaire by H. Adelman and G. Rao, York University, 2003

      With Martine Schotsmans, Belgian Law, the Rwandan Genocide and the Search for an Ethical Foreign Policy, Global Jurist, Vol 1, no.3, Article 2, Berkeley Electronic Press (2001), www.bepress.com/gj/topics/vol1/iss3/art2

      In Dutch:

      Pleidooi voor een groene markteconomie, Vrije Tribune in De Standaard, 8 januari 2008

      Toespraak ter gelegenheid van de ontvangst van de Prijs van de Auschwitz Stichting - Jacques Rozenberg, Brussels, 14 December 2004  download.   In French:  download

      Vrije Tribune gepubliceerd in De Standaard van 20-21 Juni, 2002

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