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Adeel Malik

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adeel.malik@qeh.ox.ac.uk
+44 (0)1865 618508

Research interests

New Institutional Economics; political economy of Muslim societies; politics of the private sector in the Middle East.

Adeel Malik

Globe Fellow in the Economies of Muslim Societies and Associate Professor

Adeel Malik is a development macroeconomist with a strong multi-disciplinary orientation. His research engages with questions of long-run development, political economy and economic history, with a special focus on Muslim societies. His work combines quantitative and qualitative research methods. Apart from engaging with cross-country empirics on development, he is trying to develop a broader research lens on the political economy of the Middle East. His most recent contribution to the field was an article on 'The Economics of the Arab Spring', which received the Best Paper Award. It has now been translated into Arabic and several other languages, and formed the basis for a dedicated story in The Economist magazine. Another emerging area of interest is the interplay between religion, land and politics in Pakistan, which he is exploring as part of an IFPRI-funded project on structural constraints to public goods provision in Punjab.

He also holds the Globe Fellowship in the Economies of Muslim Societies at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, and is a Research Associate of the Centre for the Study of African Economies and the Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich Economies, both based at the Department of Economics. He co-directs the ERF Project on the Political Economy of Private Sector Dynamism in the Middle East, and serves as an associate editor of the Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (Middle East Economics and Finance).

Before joining ODID, he completed his doctorate in economics at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar in 2004. His previous research affiliations include: the Department of Economics, Oxford University (2004-05); Merton College (2002-03 and 2005-06); Center for International Development, Harvard University (2001), and Mahbub ul Haq Human Development Centre, Islamabad (1997-1999).

His research on the Middle East’s political economy has featured in CNN, Fortune Magazine, The Times London, Financial Times, and Gulf News. He strongly believes in the role of the public intellectual. In that spirit, he has engaged with a wider audience by occasionally contributing op-ed pieces to The New York Times, Project Syndicate, Al-Jazeera, Huffington Post, and Foreign Policy Magazine.

Teaching is more than a contractual obligation for Adeel. It is part of his intellectual mission, and a passion that sustains his existence in Oxford.He believes engaging with young scholars is one of the greatest privileges of being associated with Oxford University.      

His teaching portfolio reflects an evolving interest in political economy, and spans three graduate programmes: the MPhil in Development Studies, the MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies, and the MSc in Global Governance and Diplomacy. Some details are included below:

  • Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa: an option for the MPhil in Development Studies (shared with the MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies)
  • Political Economy of Institutions and Development: an option for the MSc in Global Governance and Diplomacy and the MPhil in Development Studies

Additional teaching duties include selective undergraduate tutorials on Quantitative Economics for St Peter’s College students. He is also supervising graduate dissertations on various aspects of Middle Eastern political economy.

  • Chapters

    Malik, Adeel
    ( ) Beyond the resource curse: Rents and development in the Middle East . In A Galal, I Diwan Middle East Economies in Transition , Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
    Malik, Adeel
    ( ) The Political Economy of Arab Uprisings . In Steven N Durlauf, Lawrence E Blume The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics , (Online Edition) Palgrave Macmillan
    Malik, Adeel
    ( ) Oil in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Dependence, Distortions and Distribution . In P Collier, T Venables Plundered Nations? Successes and Failures in Natural Resource Extraction , Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
    Malik, Adeel
    F Teal ( ) Towards a Competitive Manufacturing Sector in Nigeria . In P Collier, C C Soludo, C Pattillo Economic Policy Options for a Prosperous Nigeria , Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
    Malik, Adeel
    ( ) Democratic Governance for Human Security . Human Development in South Asia , Karachi: Oxford University Press
    Malik, Adeel
    P Streeten ( ) Asian Drama Revisited . In K Haq The South Asian Challenge , Karachi: Oxford University Press
  • Reports

    Malik, Adeel
    N Birdsal, M Vaishnav ( ) Poverty and the Social Sectors: The World Bank in Pakistan . , Operations Evaluations Department, The World Bank
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