- PhD student
- Date
- Friday 3 Dec 2021, 16:00 - 17:30
- Type
- PhD defence
- Spoken Language
- English
- Room
- Aula B and livestream
- Location
- International Institute of Social Studies
- Ticket information
A limited number of people may attend this defence in-person.
If you would like to attend in-person, please register by completing the registration form at the bottom of this page.The defence can also be followed LIVE via ISS livestream (see 'Watch the defence live' below)
On 3 December, Sabna Mohamed Abbass Ali will defend her thesis 'Extractive industries and development: An investigation into the resource curse impact on happiness, growth, export diversification, and institutions'
In her study, she investigates the underperformance of the majority of resource-rich countries.
In four articles based on research in Sudan and South Sudan Sabna Ali probes into a new perspective on the 'resource curse', looking respectively at happiness and the resource curse; post-succession Sudan and South Sudan; oil, export diversification and economic growth in Sudan; and an evaluation of the impact of oil reserve loss on Sudan's growth.
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Doctoral Board
Chair
Doctoral dissertation supervisors
Professor Mansoob Murshed
Dr Elissaios Papyrakis
Members of the Full Doctoral Committee
Professor Thorvaldur Gylfason, University of Iceland
Professor Scott Gates, University of Oslo
Professor Rhys Jenkins, University of East Anglia
Dr Natascha Wagner, ISS
Dr Zemzem Shigute Shuka, ISS
Register to attend in-person
- More information
The ceremony will begin promptly at 16.00 hrs in the Auditorium of the ISS, Kortenaerkade 12, The Hague. The doors will be closed after the start of the Public Defence, but will be briefly opened after the candidate’s introduction to allow latecomers to enter.
Children under 7 years old are not allowed in the Aula during the first part of the ceremony.
Professors are invited to join the academic procession.