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Professor Tarp has some 39 years of experience in academic and applied development economics research and teaching. His field experience covers more than 20 years of in-country work in 35 countries across Africa and the developing world more...
Tony Addison is Chief Economist and Deputy Director of the UN University's World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) in Helsinki, Finland. He was previously Professor of Development Studies, University of Manchester;...
Wisdom Akpalu is a Research Fellow, performing research collaboration with the University of Ghana, Accra. He is a US citizen and obtained his PhD degree in Economics from the Gothenburg University, Sweden. He has worked as Associate Professor of...
Gary S. Fields is the John P. Windmuller Professor of International and Comparative Labor and Professor of Economics at Cornell University. He has been an Ivy League teacher and professor for more than forty years. He teaches and conducts research...
Rachel M. Gisselquist, a political scientist, is a Research Fellow with UNU-WIDER. She works on the politics of the developing world, with particular attention to ethnic politics and group-based inequality, state fragility, governance, and...
Carlos is a Research Fellow at the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER). He is on leave of absence from his previous appointment as professor of applied economics at the University of Vigo. Carlos...
Laurence Harris is Professor of Economics in the Department of Financial and Management Studies at SOAS, University of London and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He is also the founder of the Centre for Financial and Management Studies. He...
Maria Jouste is a Research Assistant at UNU-WIDER. She is pursuing her PhD in Economics at University of Turku, Finland. Her research interests include development economics, taxation and social protection.
Murray Leibbrandt is Professor of Economics at the University of Cape Town and a Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. In this capacity, and as Director of the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU), he leads the...
Isabel Leroux is a research assistant at UNU-WIDER. She is pursuing her PhD in Economics at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Her research interests include development finance, development of the private sector and mobile banking.
Jörgen Levin is an Associate Professor at Örebro University School of Business and works as a Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. Levin received his PhD at Gothenburg University and has worked on a wide range of topics such...
Mr Lin is Councilor of the State Council and Honorary Dean of the National School of Development at Peking University. He is also a member of the Standing Committee of Chinese People’s Political Consultation Conference and Vice Chairman of All...
Nora Lustig is Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics and Director of the Commitment to Equity Institute (CEQ) at Tulane University. Professor Lustig’s research focuses on economic development, poverty and inequality, and social...
Andy McKay is Professor of Development Economics at the University of Sussex, where he has worked since 2006, and Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. He has done extensive research on issues of poverty, inequality and living standards...
Kyle McNabb is a Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. He attained his PhD from the Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh in 2016, and has previously worked on research projects at the World Bank and International Centre for Tax and Development. His work is...
Carol Newman is a professor in the Department of Economics at Trinity College Dublin, where she joined in 2002. She is currently on sabbatical at the University of Copenhagen for the 2013-14 academic year. Dr Newman completed her BA at Trinity in...
Miguel Niño-Zarazúa is a Research Fellow at the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER). Previously, he was a Research Fellow at the Brooks World Poverty Institute and the Chronic...
John Page is a Senior Fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC and a Non-resident Senior Fellow of the World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER). He is visiting...
Antti Pelanteri is a Research Assistant/Database Administrator at UNU-WIDER. He holds a Master’s degree in Social Sciences from the University of Helsinki. His research interests include economic and social inequality, economic development and...
Ville Pikkarainen is a research assistant at UNU-WIDER. He is pursuing his PhD in Economics at University of Helsinki, Finland. His research interests include monetary economics, development economics, macroeconomics, macroeconometrics, and...
Per Pinstrup-Andersen is the H. E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy, the J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship, and Professor of Applied Economics at Cornell University. He has served as Chairman of the Science Council...
Jukka Pirttilä is a professor of economics at the University of Tampere and also works as a Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. He has previously worked for the Labour Institute for Economic Research (Helsinki, Finland) and the...
Jean-Philippe Platteau is a Professor of economics, and the director of CRED (Centre de Recherche en Economie du Developpement), at the University of Namur, Belgium. Professor Platteau has published widely in journals and published several books,...
Lant Pritchett is currently Professor of the Practice of International Development and Faculty Chair of the Masters in Public Policy in International Development (MPA/ID) program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Prior to returning the...