Curriculum Vitae of Borbala Eszter Balint
Current address: Center for Development Research (ZEFb),
Walter-Flex-Str. 3, 53113 Bonn/Germany
Phone: +49(0)179 9970148 (mobile) or +49(0)228 731728 (work)
Fax: +49 (0)228 731869 
E-mail: babeszter@yahoo.com
Date: 03.02.05
Nationality
Date and Place of Birth
Marital Status
Current position
Romanian
June 14, 1977, Covasna/Romania
Single
Phd Student at the Center for Development Research (ZEF), Bonn/Germany.
Team member in the project: “Policy Analysis for Sustainable Agricultural
Development in Central and Eastern Europe and Southern Africa”
(PASAD), hosted at ZEF, conducted by Dr. Peter Wobst.
(http://www.pasad.uni-bonn.de/)
Current Phd and
Project Research
“Determinants of Commercial Orientation and Sustainability of Agricultural
Production of the Individual Farms in Romania.”
EDUCATION
08/02-present
Phd Student
Center for Development Research (ZEF), Department of Economic and
Technological Change, Bonn/Germany
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08/99-06/01
MA in Economics
Central European University, Budapest/Hungary
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10/95-09/99
The studies are financed by a stipend from the Robert Bosch Foundation in the
framework of the PASAD project.
Exams: Concepts and Theories of Development- 2 (good), Course on
Development Policy Analysis and Development Economics- 1.6 (good)
(German grading system with 1 the highest and 6 the lowest).
During the studies I collected primary data. For this purpose I developed a
questionnaire and organized an agricultural household survey of 304
households. I conducted the survey (with the participation of 5 enumerators) in
the summer of 2003. The data entry has been organized in September 2003.
The studies were financed by a full CEU fellowship.
Thesis: “Is FDI a Main Determinant of the Hungarian Trade Growth?”
Exams: Cumulative GPA 3.03 (good), thesis 3.33 (very good) (grading from 1
to 4, 4 is the highest).
BSC in International Economic Transactions
Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj/ Romania
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Thesis: “The Economy of Romania in the Context of European Integration.”
Grade: average of 4 years 9.36, final exams 8.80, thesis 9.60 (grading from 1 to
10, 10 is the highest).
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
01/02-08/02
Operative Controller
Praktiker Kft., Budapest/Hungary
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09/00-01/01
Internship
Madera Group (Poland), Budapest/Hungary
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04/99-09/99
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Informing the members of the Society about various events, communication
with regional offices, organization of events, conferences, application for
funding and library administration.
Internship: Sales Department
Dunapack Rambox Srl., Sf. Gheorghe/Romania
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Other
06/01-01/02
Creation of a database of Hungarian graphical artists, gathering information
about the Hungarian greeting card market, keeping in contact with graphical
artists, drafting of copyright contracts and communicating between the company
and the artists.
Project Assistant
Hungarian Economist’s Society of Romania, Cluj/Romania
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07/98
Set up of the product management controlling domain: developing the necessary
IT infrastructure for it, mapping the business processes of the company and
connecting them with the databases, building up an informatics know-how in
SQL, standardizing management reports, optimizing price margins and
inventories in the framework of independent projects.
Paper: “Dunapack’s Internal and International Transactions”
Teaching Business English, Hungarian-English and English-Hungarian
translations in Budapest/Hungary.
Hungarian-English translation of the book: “Posters from Hungary: Arendas,
Barath, Ducky, Orosz, Pocs. Catalogue of the Danish exhibition.”
08/01
Romanian-Hungarian and Hungarian-Romanian translator
Romanian-Hungarian Food Industry Business Meeting, International Trade
Center, Brasov/ Romania, August 29-30.
CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS
11/04
IAMO Forum 2004, “The Role of Agriculture in Central and Eastern
European Rural Development: Engine of Change or Social Buffer?”,
organized by the Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and
Eastern Europe (IAMO), November 4-6 in Halle (Saale), Germany.
 Presentation of the paper "Institutional Factors Influencing Agricultural Sales of
the Individual Farmers in Romania".
10/04
Deutscher Tropentag 2004, “Rural Poverty Reduction through Research for
Development and Transformation”, organized by the Humboldt University
Berlin, Agricultural and Horticultural Faculty, October 5-7 in
Berlin/Germany.
 Presentation of a poster of the paper "Determinants of Commercial Orientation
of the Individual Farmers in Romania".
07/04
8th biennial scientific conference of the International Society for Ecological
Economics, "Challenging boundaries: Economics, ecology and governance",
July 11-14, 2004 in Montreal/Canada.
 Presentation of the paper "Did Transition Bring about Ecological Sustainability
in Romanian Agriculture?”
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05/04
European School of New Institutional Economics (ESNIE) 2004, organized
by FORUM, Université de Paris X, May 2-8 in Cargese/France.
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03/04
Workshop on the research project Policy Analysis for Sustainable
Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe and Southern
Africa (PASAD), organized together with the Institute of Agricultural
Economics at the House of Scientists, March 10 in Bucharest/Romania.
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10/03
Presentation of the working paper "Institutional Factors Influencing
Agricultural Sales of the Individual Farmers in Romania".
Presentation of the research component of the PASAD project “Determinants of
Commercial Orientation and Sustainability of Agricultural Production of the
Individual Farms in Romania”.
Presentation of the complementary research studies “Agricultural Production
and Sales in the Agricultural Societies in Romania” and “Regional Disparities
in Input and Output Markets and their Impact on Agricultural Production and
Sales in Romania” together with Dr. Peter Wobst.
Deutscher Tropentag 2003, “Technological and Institutional Innovations for
Sustainable Rural Development”, organized at the Georg-August-University,
October 8-10 in Göttingen/Germany.
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Presentation of a poster of the paper “Indicators for the Measurement of
Institutional Performance Concerning Water Management - The Case of
Uzbekistan and Ghana” co-authored with Irina Forkutsa and Antonio Carlos
Reis de Freitas within the interdisciplinary course of the doctoral studies
program at ZEF.
09/03
7th annual conference of the International Society for New Institutional
Economics (ISNIE), “Institutions and Change”, September 11-13 in
Budapest/Hungary.
05/03
Workshop “Agrarentwicklung in Mittel- und Osteuropa für Doktoranden
und Post-Doc’s” organized by the Institute of Agricultural Development in
Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO), May 22-24 in Halle (Saale)/Germany.
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04/03
Presentation of the research proposal “Determinanten
Orientierung
und
nachhaltiger
Agrarproduktion
landwirtschaftlicher Betriebe in Rumänien”.
kommerzieller
individueller
Regional Conference of the International Association for the Study of
Common Property, “The Commons in Transition: Property on Natural
Resources in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union”,
April 11-13 in Prague/Czech Republic.
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Presentation of the paper: “The Impact of Property Rights and Decentralization
on Land Management in Romania”.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Hungarian (native), English (fluent), German (fluent), Romanian (fluent) and
Languages
Spanish (basic).
Computer
Literacy
Programming
skills
MSOffice; E-views; Pc-Give; SPSS; Stata; AS-400.
SQL (Oracle, MSSQL); GAMS.
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PAPERS&PUBLICATIONS
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Balint, B. 2004. "Institutional Factors Influencing Agricultural Sales of the Individual Farmers
in Romania" in Petrick, M., Weingarten, P. (eds.). The Role of Agriculture in Central and
Eastern European Rural Development: Engine of Change or Social Buffer? Studies on the
Agricultural and Food Sector in Central and Eastern Europe, Vol. 25: 238-257, Halle (Saale),
IAMO. http://www.iamo.de/dok/sr_vol25.pdf
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Balint, B. 2004. "Determinants of Commercial Orientation of the Individual Farmers in
Romania". Presented at Deutscher Tropentag 2004, “Rural Poverty Reduction through Research
for Development and Transformation”, organized by the Humboldt University Berlin,
Agricultural and Horticultural Faculty, October 5-7 in Berlin/Germany. http://www.pasad.unibonn.de/borbala_balint.htm
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Balint, B. 2004. "Did Transition Bring About Ecological Sustainability in Romanian
Agriculture?". Presented as the 8th biennial scientific conference of the International Society
for Ecological Economics, "Challenging Boundaries: Economics, Ecology and Governance",
July 11-14 in Montreal/Canada. http://www.pasad.uni-bonn.de/borbala_balint.htm
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Balint, B. 2003. "Determinanten kommerzieller Orientierung und nachhaltiger Agrarproduktion
individueller Landwirtschaftlicher Betriebe in Rumänien." in Petrick, M., Balmann, A.,
Lissitsa, A., (Hrsg.) Beiträge des Doktorandenworkshops zur Agrarentwicklung in Mittelund Osteuropa 2003, Discussion Paper 47: 6-9, Halle (Saale), IAMO.
http://www.iamo.de/dok/dp47.pdf
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Balint, B. 2003. “The Impact of Property Rights and Decentralization on Land Management in
Romania.” Presented at a Regional Conference of the International Association for the Study of
Common Property “The Commons in Transition: Property on Natural Resources in Central and
Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union”, April 11-13 in Prague/Czech Republic.
http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/archive/00001058/
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Balint, B., Forkutsa, I. and de Freitas, A. C. 2002. “Indicators for the Measurement of
Institutional Performance Concerning Water Management - The Case of Uzbekistan and
Ghana”, presented at ZEF as a contribution to the multidisciplinary course of the doctoral
studies program. http://www.pasad.uni-bonn.de/borbala_balint.htm
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Balint, B. 2001. “Az Agrármarketing Centrum: Románia EU-s csatlakozási elősegitésének
követendő példája” (The Agricultural Marketing Center: an Example to be Followed by
Romania in the Process of European Integration), Kronika, Transylvanian Hungarian language
daily magazine, European Union Special Edition 2001.09.23, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
09/03-present
Voluntary alumni leader and contact person of the Central European
University alumni in Germany.
07/01
Active in administration of the Annual Meeting of the Law and Society
Association, Central European University, Budapest/Hungary.
10/95-09/99
Active member of the Hungarian Students Union from Cluj, Club of
Economists, Cluj/Romania.
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08/98
Investment course in Veszprém/Hungary (08/97) and in Harghita
mountains/Romania (02/98)
Corporate Finance course in Torockó/Romania (10/97,11/97)
Political Economy course in Harghita mountains/Romania (07/99)
Budapest Summer University of Economics, Budapest/Hungary.
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Concentration: International Marketing and International Trade
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