Mathilde Maurel - Biography#

Mathilde Maurel, senior researcher at CNRS and FERDI, is specialized in transition and development economics. She has published extensively in the leading journals of both fields.

One issue of interest is the EU enlargement, and the role played by EU policies towards candidate countries.

In the area of development and environmental economics, Maurel has recently investigated the issue of migration pressures, stemming from climate shocks which affect agricultural productivity and push rural people towards cities and/or abroad. She also investigates the efficiency of the set of environmental measures introduced by China from 2006 onwards.

The economics of aid consistency is another area of research. Trade, migration, investment, etc. policies implemented in donors’ countries must be consistent to be efficient. The concept of donors’ policies consistency shed a completely renewed light to the literature about aid efficiency.

Recently Maurel contributes to the debates on the evaluation of projects to extend access to electricity, particularly in Africa. Her methodological approach is based upon the sue of satellite imagery and remote sensing data.