Malerba, Daniele
Dr. Daniele Malerba
Research programme
Transformation of Economic and Social Systems
Function
Senior Researcher
Specialization
Economy
Work areas
- Poverty
- Economic and social development
- Social protection
- Climate change
- Environment
Vita
| since 1/2018 | German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) (until 6/2022 German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)) Researcher, Research Programme "Transformation of Economic and Social Systems" |
| 8/2017-12/2017 | German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) Researcher |
| since 9/2013 | International development research projects Independent consultant |
| 9/2013-6/2017 | University of Manchester, UK PhD candidate |
| 9/2013-6/2016 | University of Manchester, UK Teaching assistant |
| 11/2010-9/2013 | Development Initiatives, Bristol, UK Analyst/Researcher |
| 9/2009-12/2009 | UNIDO, Wien, Austria Intern |
Refereed Publications
- Malerba, Daniele / Babette Never / Lukas Fesenfeld / Hanna Fuhrmann-Riebel / Sascha Kuhn (2024)
On the acceptance of high carbon taxes in low- and middle-income countries: a conjoint survey experiment
in: Environmental Research Letters, first published online 10.07.2024 - Aleksandrova, Mariya / Laura Kuhl / Daniele Malerba (2024)
Unlocking climate finance for social protection: an analysis of the Green Climate Fund
in: Climate Policy, first published 07.04.2024 - Tian, Peipei / Kuishuang Feng / Laixiang Sun / Klaus Hubacek / Daniele Malerba / Honglin Zhong / Heran Zheng / Dan Li / Ning Zhang / Jiashuo Li (2024)
Higher total energy costs strain elderly, especially low-income, across 31 developed countries
in: PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) 121 (12), article e2306771121 - Dietrich, Stephan / Daniele Malerba / Franziska Gassmann (2024)
Predicting social assistance beneficiaries: On the social welfare damage of data biases
in: Data & Policy 6, article e3 - Breuer, Anita / Julia Leininger / Daniele Malerba / Jale Tosun (2023)
Integrated policymaking: Institutional designs for implementing the sustainable development goals (SDGs)
in: World Development 170, article 106317 - Awuni, Evans Tindana / Daniele Malerba / Babette Never (2023)
Understanding vulnerability to poverty, COVID-19’s effects, and implications for social protection: insights from Ghana
in: Progress in Development Studies 23 (3), 246-274 - Burchi, Francesco / Daniele Malerba (2023)
Are women poorer? A cross-country analysis of gender differentials in multidimensional poverty
in: Udaya R. Wagle (ed.), Research Handbook on Poverty and Inequality, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 103-117 - Breuer, Anita / Daniele Malerba / Srinivasa Srigiri / Pooja Balasubramanian (eds.) (2023)
Governing the interlinkages between the SDGs: approaches, opportunities and challenges
London: Routledge - Balasubramanian, Pooja / Francesco Burchi / Daniele Malerba (2023)
Does economic growth reduce multidimensional poverty? Evidence from low- and middle-income countries
in: World Development 161, article 106119 - Breuer, Anita / Daniele Malerba / Srinivasa, Srigiri / Pooja Balasubramanian (2022)
Governing the Interlinkages between the SDGs: Approaches, Opportunities and Challenges (Introduction)
in: Breuer, Anita / Daniele Malerba / Srinivasa, Srigiri / Pooja Balasubramanian (eds.), Governing the interlinkages between the SDGs: approaches, opportunities and challenges, London: Routledge, 1-14 - Allen, Cameron / Anita Breuer / Julia Kercher / Julia Leininger / Pooja Balasubramanian / Arvinn Gadgil (2022)
The role of good governance in reducing poverty and inequality: evidence from a scoping review of interlinkages between SDGs 16, 10 and 1
in: Breuer, Anita / Daniele Malerba / Srinivasa, Srigiri / Pooja Balasubramanian (eds.), Governing the interlinkages between the SDGs: approaches, opportunities and challenges, London: Routledge, 30-50 - Breuer, Anita / Julia Leininger / Daniele Malerba (2022)
Governance mechanisms for coherent and effective implementation of the 2030 Agenda: A cross-national comparison of government SDG bodies
in: Breuer, Anita / Daniele Malerba / Srinivasa, Srigiri / Pooja Balasubramanian (eds.), Governing the interlinkages between the SDGs: approaches, opportunities and challenges, London: Routledge, 51-71 - Malerba, Daniele / Yannik Oswald (2022)
To grow or not to grow? Revisiting economic growth as a Sustainable Development Goal in light of the degrowth debate
in: Breuer, Anita / Daniele Malerba / Srinivasa, Srigiri / Pooja Balasubramanian (eds.), Governing the interlinkages between the SDGs: approaches, opportunities and challenges, London: Routledge, 140-157 - Emmerling, Johannes / Daniele Malerba (2022)
Modelling the interaction between climate mitigation and income inequality: the use of integrated assessment models and the case of India
in: Breuer, Anita / Daniele Malerba / Srinivasa, Srigiri / Pooja Balasubramanian (eds.), Governing the interlinkages between the SDGs: approaches, opportunities and challenges, London: Routledge, 174-191 - Breuer, Anita / Daniele Malerba / Srinivasa, Srigiri / Pooja Balasubramanian (2022)
Governing the interlinkages between the SDGs: conclusions
in: Breuer, Anita / Daniele Malerba / Srinivasa, Srigiri / Pooja Balasubramanian (eds.), Governing the interlinkages between the SDGs: approaches, opportunities and challenges, London: Routledge, 225-237 - Malerba, Daniele (2022)
The effects of social protection and social cohesion on the acceptability of climate change mitigation policies: what do we (not) know in the context of low- and middle-Income countries?
in: European Journal of Development Research 34, 1358–1382 - Burchi, Francesco / Markus Loewe / Daniele Malerba / Julia Leininger (2022)
Disentangling the relationship between social protection and social cohesion: introduction to the special issue
in: European Journal of Development Research, 34 (3), 1195 - 1215 - Burchi, Francesco / Daniele Malerba / Claudio E. Montenegro / Nicole Rippin (2022)
Assessing trends in multidimensional poverty during the MDGs
in: Review of Income and Wealth 68 (S2), S317-S346 - Barrientos, Armando / Stephan Dietrich / Franziska Gassmann / Daniele Malerba (2022)
Prioritarian rates of return to antipoverty transfers
in: Journal of International Development, 34 (3), 550-563 - Alkesandrova, Mariya / Daniele Malerba / Christoph Strupat (2021)
“Building Back Better” through social protection
in: Bündnis Entwicklung hilft, Bochum: Ruhr University Bochum – Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict, 33-37 - Malerba, Daniele (2021)
Climate change
in: Esther Schüring / Markus Loewe (Hrsg.), Handbook on Social Protection Systems, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 688–704 - Malerba, Daniele (2021)
Introduction: policy coordination
in: Esther Schüring / Markus Loewe (Hrsg.), Handbook on Social Protection Systems, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 223–225 - Malerba, Daniele / Kirsten Svenja Wiebe (2021)
Analysing the effect of climate policies on poverty through employment channels
in: Environmental Research Letters 16(3), first published 09.03.2021 - Malerba, Daniele / Anja Gaentzsch / Hauke Ward (2020)
Mitigating poverty: the patterns of multiple carbon tax and recycling regimes for Peru
in: Energy Policy (149), article number 111961, online first - Barrientos, Armando / Daniele Malerba (2020)
Social assistance and inclusive growth
in: International Social Security Review 73 (3), 33-53 - Roscioli, Federico / Daniele Malerba / Francesco Burchi (2020)
Introducing agroecology in primary schools: an independent impact evaluation in Uruguay
in: Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 28 August 2020 (online first) - Malerba, Daniele (2020)
The trade-off between poverty reduction and carbon emissions, and the role of economic growth and inequality: an empirical cross-country analysis using a novel indicator
in: Social Indicators Research, 23 April 2020 (online) - Malerba, Daniele (2020)
Poverty alleviation and local environmental degradation: an empirical analysis in Colombia
in: World Development 127 (March 2020) - Dietrich, Stephan / Daniele Malerba / Armando Barrientos / Franziska Gassmann / Pierre Mohnen / Nyasha Tirivayi (2019)
Human capital returns to cash transfers in Uganda: does it matter in the long run?
in: Journal of Development Effectiveness 12 (1), 54-73 - Breuer, Anita / Hannah Janetschek / Daniele Malerba (2019)
Translating Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) interdependencies into policy advice
in: Sustainability 11 (7) - Malerba, Daniele (2019)
Poverty-energy-emissions pathways: recent trends and future sustainable development goals
in: Energy for Sustainable Development 49 (April ), 109-124
Non-refereed Publications
- Malerba, Daniele / Babette Never / Hanna Fuhrmann-Riebel / Sascha Kuhn (2024)
Survey data on climate policy in three countries (Peru, Ghana, Philippines) within the project "Sustainable Middle Classes in Middle Income Countries: Transforming Carbon Consumption Patterns (SMMICC)"
Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) - Altenburg, Tilmann / Anna Pegels / Mauricio Böhl Gutierrez et al. (2024)
Greening economies in partner countries: priorities for International cooperation
(Policy Brief 2/2024) - Burchi, Francesco / Daniele Malerba (2024)
Gender differences in multidimensional poverty in low- and middle-income countries: An assessment based on individual poverty indices
published on ssrn.com, 10.01.2024 - Burchi, Francesco / Daniele Malerba (2023)
The gendered nature of poverty: data, evidence and policy recommendations
(Policy Brief 24/2023) - Malerba, Daniele (2023)
The role of social protection in environmental fiscal reforms
(Discussion Paper 10/2023) - Burchi, Francesco / Daniele Malerba (2023)
Global trends in multidimensional poverty and horizontal inequalities in poverty
in: UNDESA - Expert Group Meeting on the Implementation of the third United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2018-2027), Draft paper (May 2023) - Leininger, Julia / Armin von Schiller / Christoph Strupat / Daniele Malerba (2022)
Policy responses to COVID-19: why social cohesion and social protection matter in Africa
(Discussion Paper 20/2022) - Malerba, Daniele / Xiangjie Chen / Kuishuang Feng / Klaus Hubacek / Yannick Oswald (2022)
The impact of carbon taxation and revenue redistribution on poverty and inequality
(Policy Brief 11/2022) - Altenburg, Tilman / Steffen Bauer / Clara Brandi / Michael Brüntrup / Daniele Malerba / Babette Never / Anna Pegels / Andreas Stamm / Jenny To / Ulrich Volz (2022)
Ökologische Strukturpolitik: ein starker Profilbaustein für die deutsche Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
(Discussion Paper 8/2022) - Iacobuţă, Gabriela Ileana / Alexia Faus Onbargi et al. (2022)
The European Green Deal and the war in Ukraine: addressing crises in the short and long term
Brussels: European Think Tanks Group (ETTG) (July 2022) - Malerba, Daniele (2022)
Just transitions: a review of how to decarbonise energy systems while addressing poverty and inequality reduction
(Discussion Paper 6/2022) - Balasubramanian, Pooja / Francesco Burchi / Daniele Malerba (2021)
Does economic growth reduce multidimensional poverty? Evidence from low and middle-income countries
in: Courant Discussion Papers, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (288) - Leininger, Julia / Christoph Strupat / Yonas Adeto / Abebe Shimeles / Wilson Wasike (2021)
The COVID-19 pandemic and structural transformation in Africa: evidence for action
(Discussion Paper 11/2021) - Malerba, Daniele (2021)
Welche Verteilungsfragen ergeben sich aus der Klimapolitik? Aktuelle Erkenntnisse aus Entwicklungsländern
(Analysen und Stellungnahmen 1/2021) - Malerba, Daniele (2021)
What are the distributional implications of climate policies? Recent evidence from developing countries
(Briefing Paper 3/2021) - Burchi, Francesco / Daniele Malerba / Claudio E. Montenegro / Nicole Rippin (2020)
Assessing trends in multidimensional poverty during the MDGs
in: Global Development Institute Working Paper Series (2020-044), Manchester: Global Development Institute, University of Manchester - Burchi, Francesco / Daniele Malerba / Nicole Rippin / Claudio E. Montenegro (2019)
Comparing global trends in multidimensional and income poverty and assessing horizontal inequalities
(Discussion Paper 2/2019) - Barrientos, Armando / Daniele Malerba (2018)
Productivist social assistance and 21st-century development models
London: ESRC GPID Research Network (Working Paper 16) - Malerba, Daniele (2018)
How to reduce poverty and address climate change? An empirical cross-country analysis and the roles of economic growth and inequality
Manchester: The University of Manchester (GDI Working Paper 2018-32) - Malerba, Daniele (2018)
The heterogeneous effects of conditional cash transfers across geographical clusters: do energy factors matter?
Working Paper Series 2018-021, Manchester: Global Development Institute/University of Manchester - Dietrich, Stephan / Daniele Malerba / Armando Barrientos / Franziska Gassmann / Pierre Mohnen / Nyasha Tirivayi / Susan Kavuma / Fred Matovu (2017)
Social protection investments, human capital, and income growth: simulating the returns to social cash transfers in Uganda
Maastricht: Maastricht Economic and social Research institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU‐MERIT); (Working Paper Series 2017-029) - Dietrich, Stephan / Daniele Malerba / Armando Barrientos / Franziska Gassmann (2017)
Rates of return to antipoverty transfers in Uganda
Maastricht: Maastricht Economic and social Research institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU‐MERIT); (Working Paper Series 2017-040)
Opinion Pieces
- Böhl Gutierrez, Mauricio / Daniele Malerba (2022)
A long-term perspective for the current energy crisis
Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), The Current Column of 17 October 2022 - Malerba, Daniele (2022)
Social protection and social cohesion are key for climate action
published on www.developmentresearch.eu, 18.08.2022 - Malerba, Daniele (2020)
Tackling climate change and reducing poverty: is “building back better” possible?
published on poverty-unpacked.org, 30.10.2020, Online - Strupat, Christoph / Francesco Burchi / Daniele Malerba (2020)
Why social protection is crucial in the corona crisis
German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), The Current Column of 26 March 2020 - Burchi, Francesco / Daniele Malerba / Nicole Rippin (2019)
Multidimensional poverty trends and horizontal inequalities: new insights from the G-CSPI database
One Pager 434) - Malerba, Daniele / Francesco Burchi (2019)
Why our narrow view of poverty hinders its eradication
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), (The Current Column of 17 October 2019) - Schwachula, Anna / Okka Lou Mathis / Daniele Malerba / Ramona Hägele (2019)
On the dilemma of flying for sustainability
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), (The Current Column of 27 September 2019)
Projects
- Klimalog: Climate-resilient and nature-compatible sustainable development through socially just transformation (Klimalog III)
- How does the COVID-19 pandemic affect climate policy? Case studies on climate targets, recovery spending, and carbon fiscal reform (COVCLIM)
- Measuring and Assessing Multidimensional Poverty across the world
- Implementing the 2030 Agenda: Integrating Growth, Environment, Equality and Governance
- Poverty, Inequality and Well-being
- Global Sustainable Development Report - Scientific contributions and outreach activities
The Current Column - Multidimensional poverty
Highlight
Why our narrow view of poverty hinders its eradication
Malerba, Daniele / Francesco Burchi (2019)
The Current Column of 17 October 2019