Dr Bernd Mueller
Diplom-Volkswirt (MSc) (Muenster) PhD (SOAS)
Overview
Department of Development Studies
Research Officer
Agrarian Change and Development
Research Cluster Member
- Name:
- Dr Bernd Mueller
- Email address:
- bm11@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4604
- Office No:
- 4410
Biography
East Africa (in particular: Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda), labour markets, political economy of development, agriculture, poverty reduction, agrarian change, livelihood diversification, development aid, commodity trade
Teaching
Research
Bernd is currently working as research officer in a 4-year research project on 'Fair Trade, Employment, and Poverty Reduction in Ethiopia and Uganda' which is conducted by SOAS researchers with the support from the UK Department for International Development (DfID). The research aims to improve our knowledge of the transmission mechanism linking trade in agricultural commodities with poverty reduction, especially via labour markets and it pays particular attention to the various institutional arrangements, codes of practice and so on, including Fair Trade and other certification schemes, that have been developed with the intention of helping to improve poor people's welfare and to protect them against the vagaries of international commodity markets. In this role, Bernd has travelled extensively throughout Ethiopia and Uganda to conduct, manage, and guide the collection of primary data in the form of large-scale surveys.
Expertise
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Available for
- Radio
- Press
- Briefings
- Special Study Programmes
- Short Term Consultancy
- Long Term Consultancy
- Expert Immigration or Asylum Reports
- TV
Regional Expertise
- Africa
Country Expertise
- Ethiopia
- Tanzania
- Uganda
Languages
- English
- German
Publications
Articles
Mueller, Bernd (2012) 'The Poverty of the Smallholder Ideal: Highlighting Tanzania's Rural Labour Market.' Development Viewpoint (71).
Mueller, Bernd E. T. (2011) 'The agrarian question in Tanzania: using new evidence to reconcile an old debate.' Review of African Political Economy, 28 (127). pp. 23-42.
Book Reviews
Mueller, Bernd E. T. (2008) 'The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture: Life Beneath the Level of the Marketplace - By Tony Waters.' Journal of Agrarian Change, 8 (4). pp. 643-646.
Theses
Mueller, Bernd (2011) Working for Development? A Study of the Political Economy of Rural Labour Markets in Tanzania. PhD thesis. SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies).
