Lennart Kaplan is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Goettingen, Germany. His research analyzes the effectiveness and political economy of development cooperation with a focus on financial flows and trade. For this purpose, he utilizes a broad range of methods and data (geospatial, primary data collection in the Global South). Previously, he completed his PhD at Heidelberg and Göttingen University and worked as a researcher at the Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik in Bonn, where he is an associate researcher.
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