Dr. Greta Seibel

Biography

Greta Seibel is a fellow at the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is an economic historian with insights from political economy, history, anthropology, and sociology. Her research interests include industrial policies and state-led development, focusing on the Asian growth miracle. Currently, she is working on a research project that delves into small business credit and financial inclusion in Indonesia, investigating the emergence of subsidized SME credit programs and their shift from market-led finance to market rates. This project provides a comparative look at Indonesia's firm-size distribution and examines the challenges to growth using economic census data. Her previous doctoral research explored the missing middle of Indonesia's firm-size distribution from 1966 to 2006 as part of a broader analysis of the industrial development models in South Korea and Taiwan. Greta holds a PhD in Economic History and an MSc in Political Economy of Late Development from the London School of Economics, as well as a BA in European Studies from Maastricht University. She has also served as a Junior Expert in the South Asia Regional Office of the German NGO Welthungerhilfe, where she employed a rights-based approach to food security and worked on decentralization.

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