Amal Ahmad

Amal Ahmad

Assistant Professor, Economics

Wageningen University

Biography

I am an Assistant Professor at the Development Economics Group at Wageningen University.

I study how political power and distributive conflict shape institutions and inform development, as well as how rural populations in developing countries cope with various constraints. To this end, my research combines microeconomic theory with a range of applied methods. I also teach political economy and microeconomics at the graduate and undergraduate levels.

In addition to my academic work, I contribute regularly to public scholarship particularly on Palestine. You can find my papers and other writings on this page.

Interests

  • Microeconomics of development
  • Political economy of development
  • Conflict, cooperation, and games

Education

  • PhD in Economics, 2015-2021

    University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • MSc in Development Economics, 2013

    SOAS, University of London

  • BA in Economics and Black Studies, 2012

    Amherst College

Other writings

Israel’s no-state solution and the endurance of Palestine (2024), New Arab.

The PA’s revenue structure & Israel’s containment strategy (2023), Palestinian Policy Network. العربية

Organisational deficiencies in developing countries and the role of global surgery (2021), in Alaaeldin Ahmad and Aakash Agarwal (eds) Early onset scoliosis: Guidelines for management in resource-limited settings, Routledge.

70 years of Nabka: Where can Palestinians go from here? (2018), Palestinian Policy Network.
العربية

Beyond the binary: Two states, one state, failed state, no state (2017), Palestinian Policy Network. العربية

Palestinian democracy denied (2016), Palestinian Policy Network. العربية

Reflections on Palestinian strategy (2016), Palestinian Policy Network. العربية

How Israel gets to cut off Palestine’s revenues (2015), The Hill.

The customs union and Israel’s no-state solution (2014), Palestinian Policy Network. العربية

Teaching

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Instructor

Wageningen University

Sep 2023 – Present
  • Graduate political economy of development
  • Undergraduate microeconomics
 
 
 
 
 

Instructor

University of Goettingen

Aug 2021 – Aug 2023
  • Graduate quasiexperimental economics and R Lab
  • Graduate interdisciplinary studies of modern India
  • Graduate health economics
 
 
 
 
 

Instructor

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
  • Graduate mathematics camp
  • Graduate econometrics camp
  • Undergraduate microeconomics

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