Gwendoline Promsopha

Gwendoline PROMSOPHA

e-mail : gwendoline.promsopha@univ-amu.fr

35 avenue Jules Ferry, 13626 AIX EN PROVENCE

Date of Birth : 12/13/1985

Nationality : French

Current Position

Since 2013 : Associate Professor (Maître de conférences), Aix-Marseille University, LEST UMR7317, LEA, director of the L3 LEA, UFR ALLSH.

Research Interests

Development Economics – Institutional Economics - Applied economics - Property Rights and Land Markets – Common property - Natural resources - Migration - Rural Economics - Risk-coping and risk-sharing  -  Poverty – Elites and political development.

Education

2012 PhD in Economics, University Paris West Nanterre la Défense,  Title: Informal Risk-Coping and the Allocation of Farm Land 

2008 Master in Development Economics, Sciences-po Paris, Cum Laude

Selection of Publications

[2019] Migration, gestion des risques et patrimoine foncier : de l'Isan à Bangkok. Moussons : recherches en sciences humaines sur l'Asie du Sud-Est, Presses universitaires de Provence, 2019, 34, pp.71 - 93

[2017] `Risk-coping, land tenure and land markets: An overview of the literature’, Journal of Economic Surveys, 32(1), pp.176-193.

[2017]  'Gender, Subjective well-being and capabilities: an application to the Moroccan Youth', with Khouaja Mehdi and Olympio Noemie, in eds. Aurora Lopes Fogez and Firdevs Melis Cin : Youth, Gender and the Capabilities Approach to Development: Rethinking Opportunities and Agency, Routledge. Forthcoming.

[2015] 'Land Ownership as Insurance and the Market for Land: A Study in rural Vietnam', Land Economics, 91(3), p. 460-478.

[2013]  ‘Migration permanente, vente de terre, et gestion informelle des risques de subsistance’, The Economic Review, vol. 64, N° 3, p. 497-510,  mai 2013

[2010]  'A descriptive analysis of migrants' strategies regarding Land holdings in their villages of origin : preliminary results from a case study in the Northeast of Thailand', Rian Thai, International Journal of Thai Studies, vol.3, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok

Working Papers

[2021] Risk-coping and resilience in Sustainable Agriculture: a case study in the Northeast of Thailand

[2021] Elite circulation, rent-seeking and rank-keeping. Analytical insights from the case of Thailand, with Antoine VION,

[2021]   Quality and relevance of the evidence on refugees in Jordan in an emerging context of humanitarian evidence-based policy-making, with Ingrid Tucci, R&R International Migration Review

Ongoing research projects

[2021] Post-Mining Waters – Emerging Resource in Gardane mining (PoWER) avec Camille Guirou

[2019-2021] PHC Siam, Etiology and management of environmental crises in a Buddhist context: A case study of Thai farmers, coordination: Bernard Formoso

[2017] From a limited Access Order to a limited Access Order: the story of a missed political and economic transition in Thailand

[2017] The production of humanitarian data and assessments on the Syrian refugees in Jordan: a statistical analysis of the production of statistics, with Ingrid Tucci and Lea Macias

[2017-2019] Political conflict and the structure of Economic elites after the Arab Springs, Projet Amorce Labexmed, Aix-Marseille University, coordination: Antoine VION (LEST-Aix-Marseille University).

[2016-21] ANR Lajeh (Conflicts et migrations), coordination : Kamel Dorai (IFPO, Jordan).

Recent presentations

Juill 2021 « La gestion de l’eau des mines de Gardanne », avec Camille Guirou et Claude Le Gouill, Workshop Méta-organiser la transition écologique, 5, 6 et 7 juillet, Aix en Provence.

Fev 2020 « Le label dans une économie rurale informelle en Thaïlande » Journée d’étude Transition agricole, développement durable et nouvelles formes de collectifs, Aix-Marseille Université, LEST-LEA, 14 février 2020

Dec 2018 Workshop  « Perception et gestion des risques par les paysanneries d’Asie du Sud-Est », IRASIA

Sep 2018 Elite circulation and the limited order trap : the case of Thailand. ”, with Antoine Vion, in 30th European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy annual conference (EAEPE),, Sep 2018, Nice, France

Oct 2017 Migrations et arrangements fonciers dans les régions rurales du Nord-Est de la Thaïlande, séminaire de l’IRASIA, Marseille

Sep 2017 Thailand’s ‘limited order trap’ : a critical application of North, Wallis and Weingast., with Antoine VION, at World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research (WINIR) 2017, Utrecht,  Nederland.

June 2016 Are free loans of land really free? An exploratory analysis in the Northeast of Thailand », in 20th Annual Conference of the Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics (SIOE), Sciences-Po Paris, Paris, 16 juin 2016.

June 2015  Inequalities in Morocco: what freedom for young people to choose a life one has good reasons to value? », in 27th Annual Conference of The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), "Inequality in the 21st Century", London School of Economics, 2-4 Juillet 2015, with Khouaja El-Mahdi and Olympio Noémie.

June 2013 2nd DIAL development Conference

June 2013 15th INFER Annual Conference, University of Orléans, France

June 2013 17th conference of the International Society of New Institutional Economics (ISNIE), Florence, Italy.

October 2012 2ème édition Journées doctorales fonciers, Maison des sciences Humaines, Montpellier.

June 2012 61ème Congrès de l'Association Française de Sciences Économiques, Université Paris Panthéon-Assas, Paris.

May 2012 The 11th session of European School of New Institutional Economics (ESNIE), Cargèse, France.

June 2011 DIAL Development Conference “Shocks in Developing Countries”, University Paris Dauphine, Paris.

June 2011 15ème conférence of the International Society of New Institutional Economics (ISNIE), Standford, United States.

May 2011 The 10th session of European School of New Institutional Economics (ESNIE), Cargèse, France.

March 2011 7th ESNIE days, Université Paris-Sud.

June 2009 First AMID Summer School 'An Introduction to Field Surveys in LDCs, Namur, Belgique.

May 2009 8th session of the European School on New Institutional Economics, Cargèse, France.

March 2009 1st European PhD Seminar on Law and Economics, Nanterre, France.

Awards and other academic activities

2017 – 2019 Co-animation of the internal seminar: “Territories and the commons”, LEST-Aix-Marseille University, with Maud Hirczak and Flora Bajard.

2011 Award for the best working paper, European School of New Institutional Economics (ESNIE-IOEA), Cargèse, France

Jan-sept 2010 Direction of Field Research in collaboration with Pr. Suphanchainradt and Khon Kaen University, Department of Agriculture, Thailand.

Interviews with rural-urban migrants Thailand : qualitative research in rural areas + questionnaires with migrants in Bangkok. 467 households interviewed.

Aug 2007- Feb 2008 Field research, Thailand, in collaboration with the Mekong Institute (Khon Kaen Thailand).          150 households surveyed.

 Referee and editorial activities

Journal of Institutional Economics, Population and Environment, Economie Rurale, Current Research in Environmental Sustainability, International Journal of Education Economics and Development

Member of the editorial board of Economie Rurale.

International networks

Institution and Organization Economic Academy (IOEA), Society for Institutional and Organization Economics (SIOE), Human Development and Capability Network (HDCA), World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research (WINIR).