Gani Aldashev

Gani Aldashev will dedicate his year at CASBS to studying the political economy of recurrent humanitarian emergencies: when a natural disaster in a poor country usually leads to a rush of generous emergency assistance, with mobilization by public and private actors oriented towards the immediate concerns, but devoting less attention to the post-crisis reconstruction and development of resilience. A key consequence is that the disaster-struck population remains fragile and at the next disaster, the story repeats itself. Because of the climate change and the uneven distribution of its impact on human populations across the world, this vicious cycle could be accelerating.

Aldashev is professor of economics at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. His main research fields are development economics, political economics, and economic history. His main expertise concerns the economics and organization of the non-profit and NGO sector, the role of traditional institutions (customary justice, clans/tribes) in developing countries, and the economic history of Central Asia.