Jakob Engel

Research Officer

Jakob has a particular interest in governance and institutional reform at the national and regional level; education, skills development and employment; as well as trade and innovation policy. This is underpinned by strong background in social science research methodologies.

He was previously a policy advisor at the DFID/BIS Trade Policy Unit where he worked on the trade impact of the economic crisis, as well as on the impact of technology transfer and intellectual property righs on economic and social development in middle- and low-income countries. He has worked as a consultant for DFID, UNESCO, the WTO and the UK Intellectual Property Office. He has also worked as a research assistant at the University of Vienna, and the LSE Crisis States Research Centre.

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Assessing Aid for Trade: effectiveness, current issues and future directions

Publication - Books or book chapters - 1 August 2013

Dirk Willem te Velde and Mohammad A Razzaque

This volume, comprising 16 chapters prepared by 20 renowned experts from a range of international organisations, think tanks and academic institutions, including Commonwealth Secretariat, ODI, ECDPM, DIE, ICTSD, Saana Consulting, WTI Advisors, and Columbia University, provides a comprehensive review of the Aid for Trade initiative.

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Focusing on what matters in Aid-for-Trade

Publication - Briefing papers - 10 January 2013

ODI Briefings 79

Yurendra Basnett and Jakob Engel

This ODI Briefing Paper discusses the effectiveness of Aid for Trade.

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Dialogue on the future of aid for trade

Event - Workshop - 23 November 2012 10:00 - 19:00 (GMT+01 (BST))

The goal of this event is to bring together Geneva-based negotiators and officials, international trade experts, representatives from donor agencies, and key actors from beneficiary countries so that they can review where the Aid for Trade initiative currently stands. This exchange of experiences will help inform discussions being held in the lead-up to the next Aid for Trade Global Review in 2013. Jodie Keane and Jakob Engel will present findings from the ODI Working Paper 'Increasing the effectiveness of Aid for Trade: the circumstances under which it works best'.

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Review of policies to strengthen skills-employment linkages for marginalised young people

Publication - Research reports and studies - 16 October 2012

Jakob Engel

This background paper prepared for the Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2012 provides an analysis of the provision, governance and financing of policies, strategies and programmes to promote the employability and skills development of youths in 46 low-income countries.

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Mind the gaps: what’s missing in global education?

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 15 October 2012

‘Education for All’ has been an important rallying cry for a generation of policy-makers and advocates but, as we move towards a post-2015 framework, we increasingly need to ask ourselves ‘Education for What’?

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