Dr. Gülten Dursun is an Associate Proffessor at the Department of Economics in Kocaeli University. Her research activities are focused on Poverty, Gender, Unemployment and Economic Growth. Specific interests include natural disasters and poverty, inter-disciplinarily and methodology; panel econometrics, development and philosophical issues in economics and development. She holds a PhD in International Economics from the University of Marmara, Turkey. Amateur Photographer.