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Finn Tarp
Finn Tarp

Director of UN University-WIDER, Helsinki, Finland. Finn Tarp also holds the Chair of Professor of Development Economics at the Department of Economics at the University of Copenhagen, where he completed his MSc and PhD in Economics. Professor Tarp has some 30 years of experience in academic and applied development economics research and teaching. His field experience covers numerous countries across Africa and the developing world more generally, including longer term assignments in Swaziland, Mozambique and Vietnam. He is a leading international expert on issues of development strategy and foreign aid, with an interest in poverty, income distribution and growth, micro- and macroeconomic policy and modeling, agricultural sector policy and planning, household and enterprise development, and economic adjustment and reform. In addition to his university positions, Finn Tarp has held senior posts and advisory positions within government and with donor organizations, and he is member of a large number of international committees and advisory bodies. They include the European Union Development Network (EUDN) and the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC).

Finn

Tarp

Director

Contact information

UNU-WIDER
Katajanokanlaituri 6 B
FI-00160 Helsinki, Finland

Telephone: +358-(0)9-615 9911
Direct: +358-(0)9-615 99200
Fax: +358-(0)9-615 99333

Email: tarp(at)wider.unu.edu

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UNU-WIDER Publications:

expand (total of 22 publications.)

Full CV

Further reading:

On Aid and Growth: Reflections ahead of Busan
WIDERAngle October 2011

Article: The Impact of the Global Commodity and Financial Crises on Poverty in Vietnam

Aid, Growth, and Development:
Have We Come Full Circle?
New article published in the Journal of Globalization and Development. 3 January 2011

Opinion - UNU-WIDER on the 'triple crisis'
17 March 2010

UNU-WIDER: More Needed Than Ever
24 September 2009



 

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