M.Sc. Sherin Khalifa
http://www.agrarpol.uni-kiel.de/de/mitarbeiter/wiss-mitarbeiter/sherin-khalifa-m.sc
Project
Evaluating the Linkages between Climate Change, War and Poverty. A Micro-Macro-linked-CGE Approach applied to Syria.
The objective of this research is to evaluate the complex interrelation between climate change, economic development (es. poverty and food crises) and political conflict (War). To this end, an innovative micro-macro linked FHM-CGE model will be used. The micro component of the model will be formed by a regionalized linear programming model that represents agricultural households in Syria as well as product specific local environmental indicators such as rangeland degradation. The Macro component will be built by modelling the entire economic of a country or a region. In addition, this model will be sequentially linked with political conflict module to map economic and ecological development into the risk of armed conflicts. Thus, different governmental policy scenarios, will be run to identify best policies coping with climate change and the economic consequences of war.
Education
| Since 06/2017 | Doctoral Candidate at the Department of Agricultural Economics University of Kiel |
| 10/2010 – 08/2013 | MSc in Animal Production and Agricultural Economics University of Damascus, Syria. |
Work Experience
| 03/2014 – 05/2015 | Official teaching methodologies Certificate from Salah- Al din University, Erbil, Kurdistan-Iraq. In coordination and accounting in several trading companies. |
| 2010 - 2014 | Employee as Agricultural engineer at the Ministry of agri. and land reform/ in the office rural development project in the north-eastern regions in Syria. |
| 2011 - 2014 | Development Practitioner, Head of none-agricultural projects department, rural Lending Officer and assistant coach in establishing Islamic Murabaha financing funds in other similar development projects in Syria. |
Research Interests
Rural economic and social Development, SPSS, CGE Modeling and Field Experiments.