Opinion & Policy

POLICY BRIEF/COVID. Desbureaux Sébastien, Kaota Audacieux, Lunanga Elie, Stoop Nik, Verpoorten Marijke (2020) Covid-19 vs Ebola : des enjeux importants pour l’Est de la RDC. Institute of Development Policy blog - (2020.06.17). https://blog.uantwerpen.be/sustainable-global-society/covid-19-vs-ebola-des-enjeux-importants-pour-lest-de-la-rdc/

POLICY BRIEF/COVID. Desbureaux Sébastien, Kaota Audacieux, Lunanga Elie, Stoop Nik, Verpoorten Marijke (2020) Covid-19 vs. Ebola : high stakes for Eastern DRC. Institute of Development Policy blog - (2020.06.17). https://blog.uantwerpen.be/sustainable-global-society/covid-19-vs-ebola-high-stakes-for-eastern-drc/

BLOG/RWANDA. Ingelaere Bert, Verpoorten Marijke (2020) How trust returned to Rwanda, for most but not all African arguments - (2020.09.02). https://africanarguments.org/2020/09/02/how-trust-returned-to-rwanda-for-most-but-not-all/

BLOG/COVID. Alidou Sahawal, Verpoorten Marijke, Dewachter Sara, Renmans Dimitri, IOB alumni/students (2020) The impact of Covid-19 around the world : IOB collective research. Institute of Development Policy blog - (2020.07.28). https://blog.uantwerpen.be/sustainable-global-society/the-impact-of-covid-19-around-the-world-iob-collective-research/

BLOG/CONGO Nik Stoop, Marijke Verpoorten (2020). The super-natural is super-rational. https://blog.uantwerpen.be/sustainable-global-society/the-super-natural-is-super-rational/

BLOG/CONGO Nik Stoop, Marijke Verpoorten, Peter van der Windt (2019). Eastern Congo conflict is affected by the way in which minerals are mined. The Conversation, 29/07/2019. 

BLOG/BENIN Alidou Sahawal, Verpoorten Marijke (2019) Why age gives West African women more autonomy and power. The conversation - (2019.04.07).  

POLICY BRIEF Stoop Nik, Verpoorten Marijke, van der Windt Peter (2019) Artisanal or industrial conflict minerals? Antwerp, Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp, 4 p.(IOB analysis and policy brief ; 39). 

POLICY BRIEF Alidou Sahawal, Verpoorten Marijke (2019) Croyances religieuses endogènes et développement en Afrique Sub Saharienne. Antwerp, Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp, 4 p.(IOB analysis and policy brief ; 38). 

POLICY BRIEF Alidou Sahawal, Verpoorten Marijke (2019) Defying intuition : bigger families have no significant negative effect on children's schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa. Antwerp, Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp, 3 p.(IOB analysis and policy brief ; 37) 

RESEARCH BRIEF Stoop Nik, Verpoorten Marijke, van der Windt Peter (2019). More legislation, more violence? The impact of Dodd-Frank in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Cato Institute, 2019, 2 p. (Research briefs in economic policy ; 145)

BLOG/RWANDA Ingelaere Bert, Guariso Andrea, Verpoorten Marijke (2018) Political representation : ethnicity trumps gender in Burundi and Rwanda. The conversation - (2018.11.11)

BLOG/CONGO Stoop Nik, Verpoorten Marijke, van der Windt Peter (2018) Trump threatened to suspend the 'conflict minerals' provision of Dodd-Frank : that might actually be good for Congo. The Washington post - ISSN 0190-8286 - (2018.09.27)

POLICY BRIEF Verpoorten Marijke (2018) The biggest migration challenge ever. Antwerp, Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp, 2018, 4 p.(IOB analysis and policy brief ; 32)

POLICY BRIEF Andrea Guariso and Marijke Verpoorten (2018) Aid, Trade, or State? The Post-War Recovery of the Rwandan Coffee Sector. Analysis and Policy Brief 30--Antwerp, University of Antwerp, Institute of Development Policy and Management.

POLICY BRIEF Nik Stoop and Marijke Verpoorten (2018) Voodoo, vaccines and bed nets. Magicoreligious beliefs affect health behavior in Benin. Analysis and Policy Brief 29--Antwerp, University of Antwerp, Institute of Development Policy and Management

POLICY REPORT Stoop Nik, Kilosho Buraye Janvier, Verpoorten Marijke (2016) Relocation, reorientation, or confrontation? Insights from a representative survey among artisanal miners in Kamituga, South Kivu. Antwerpen, IOB, Institute of Development Policy and Management, University of Antwerp, 55 p

POLICY REPORT Mvukiyehe E., Smets L., Verpoorten M. and P. van der Windt (2016) Big City Life in eastern DRC: results from a representative survey. World Bank technical paper

POLICY BRIEF Janvier Kilosho, Nik Stoop and Marijke Verpoorten (2015) The social minefield of gold digging in South-Kivu, DRC: The case of Kamituga. Analyses & policy briefs ; 10--Antwerp, University of Antwerp, Institute of Development Policy and Management.

POLICY BRIEF Houssa R., Swinnen J., Verpoorten Marijke. (2014) Reviving Benin's shrimp export sector : the need for an integrated approach. Analyses & policy briefs ; 7--Antwerp, University of Antwerp, Institute of Development Policy and Management.

OPINION/BLOG Rwanda: Why claim that 200,000 Tutsi died in the genocide is wrong. African arguments - (2014.10.27)

OPINION/BLOG Rwanda : Could state-led mass killings ever happen again? African arguments - (2014.06.02) (with Bert Ingelaere)

POLICY REPORT Verpoorten, M. (2014). Growth, poverty and inequality in Rwanda: A broad perspective, Working Paper Series UNU-WIDER Research Paper , World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER). WP/2014/138

POLICY BRIEF Serneels, P. and M. Verpoorten. (2013). Armed Conflict and Economic Performance in Rwanda , Analyses & policy briefs ; 2--Antwerp, University of Antwerp, Institute of Development Policy and Management..