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Professor Kunal Sen has over three decades of experience in academic and applied development economics research. He is the author of eight books and the editor of five volumes on the economics and political economy of development. From 2019 he is...
Tony Addison is Chief Economist and Deputy Director of UNU-WIDER in Helsinki, Finland. He was previously Professor of Development Studies, University of Manchester; Executive Director of the Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI), University of...
Michael Danquah, a development economist, is a Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER currently serving as co-focal point for two projects (Transforming informal work and livelihoods, and Varieties of structural transformation – macro drivers, wage...
Ashwini Deshpande is Professor of Economics at Ashoka University, India. Her PhD and early publications have been on the international debt crisis of the 1980s. Subsequently, she has been working on the economics of discrimination and affirmative...
Amina Ebrahim is a Research Associate at UNU-WIDER focusing on tax administrative data in South Africa. She is reading for her PhD in Economics at the University of Cape Town and holds a M.Com. in Economics from the School of Economics at UCT. Her...
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...
Sergio Firpo is Instituto Unibanco Professor of Economics at Insper in São Paulo, Brazil. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 2003. He was an assistant professor of economics at the University of...
T.H. (Tim) Gindling is a professor of economics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). His research has focused on the study of factors influencing the distribution of wages, income and work in developing economies. Recent...
Rachel M. Gisselquist, a political scientist, is a Senior Research Fellow with the United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) and a member of the institute’s Senior Management Team. She works on...
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...
Vegard Iversen is Professor of Development Economics and Head of the Livelihoods and Institutions Department, Natural Resources Institute (NRI), University of Greenwich, UK. After completing his PhD in development economics from University of...
Sam Jones is a Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER based in Mozambique, on extended leave from his position as an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. He is a versatile economist with expertise in macroeconomic...
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.
Professor Patricia Justino is a development economist who works at the interface between Development Economics and Political Science. She is a leading expert on political violence and development, and the co-founder and co-director of the Households...
Sami Kotiranta is a research assistant at UNU-WIDER contributing mainly to the maintenance of the Government Revenue Dataset. He is also a political science PhD student at the University of Helsinki with a research focus on data-informed decision-...
Anustup Kundu is a research assistant at UNU-WIDER, also pursuing a PhD at the University of Helsinki. His research interests include applied microeconomics, development economics, behavioural economics, and experimental economics.
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...
Piotr Lewandowski is a labour economist, President of the Board at Institute for Structural Research, Warsaw, and a Research Fellow at IZA, Bonn, Germany. In the past he has collaborated with Warsaw School of Economics, and the Ministry of Labour...
Maria C. Lo Bue is a Research Associate at UNU-WIDER. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Göttingen, Germany and a Master’s degree in Advanced Development Economics from the University of Florence, Italy. Her main field of...
Omar Shahabudin McDoom is a comparative political scientist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research interests lie in peace and security. He specializes in the...
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 development economist and Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. Miguel’s research interests are in the areas of poverty, inequality, tax policy, welfare–benefit systems and the social...
Milla Nyyssölä has a PhD in economics with research experience in poverty, vulnerability and inequality, behavioural economics, development aid and household data collection in Mozambique. Previously, she has worked at Aalto University,...