Wim Naudé is Senior Research Fellow and Project Director at UNU-WIDER. A graduate in development economics from the University of Warwick (UK) and North-West University (Potchefstroom, South Africa) his recent research focuses on spatial economic inequalities, entrepreneurship and African economic development. Previously, he has been Director of the Work Well Research Unit at North-West University, South Africa, and a Council Member of Statistics South Africa. He has also been lecturer and research officer at the Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford, has taught economics at Addis Ababa University, and has worked as policy researcher in a number of African countries.
Wim
Naudé
Senior Research Fellow
Contact information
UNU-WIDER
Katajanokanlaituri 6 B
FI-00160 Helsinki, Finland
Telephone: +358-9-615 9911
Direct tel: +358-9-615 99219
Fax: +358-9-615 99333
Email: naude(at)wider.unu.edu
Editor of WIDERAngle NewsletterWIDER Africa research Angle1/2007
Research projects:
- Fragility and Development
- Making Peace Work: Conflict and Post Conflict societies
- New Directions in Development Economics
- Promoting Entrepreneurial Capacity
- Reconstruction in Conflict and Post-Conflict Societies
- Southern Engines of Global Growth
- Spatial Disparities in Human Development
UNU-WIDER Publications:
- An Inquiry into Cities and Their Role in Subnational Economic Growth in South Africa
- Conflict, Disasters, and No Jobs: Reasons for International Migration from Sub-Saharan Africa
- The Determinants of Regional Manufactured Exports from a Developing Country
- Early International Entrepreneurship in China: Extent and Determinants
- Entrepreneurship and Regional Economic Growth: Towards A General Theory of Start-Ups
Full CV
In the media, popular and other publications:
Contribution to the World Development Report 2009: Density, Distance and Division in Sub-Saharan Africa
Financial Times, Letters: Marshall Plan is the wrong analogy for economic development in Africa', with Augustin Kwasi Fosu, Financial Times, 7 June 2007
The Economist, Letters: Migrants Finding Their Way,
The Economist, 10 July 2008Interview with Agenda Magazine, Issue 5, November 2008.
Interview with Thoughteconomics, 15 December 2008.
'The Economics of Developing Nations and the Global Financial Crisis'Article on the financial crisis ‘How the west can save itself’ in the Guardian (online), 2 February 2009.