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Professor Tarp has four decades of experience in academic and applied development economics research and teaching. His field experience covers more than two decades of in-country work in 35 countries across Africa and the developing world more...
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 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...
Goodness Aye is a Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER in Pretoria, South Africa. She joined the University of Agriculture, Makurdi, in 2002 as an academic staff member, and later obtained her PhD in agricultural economics from the University of Pretoria,...
Paola Ballon is a Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER in Mozambique, and former Researcher in Development Economics at the University of Oxford, UK. She is an econometrician with expertise in the measurement and statistical analysis of multidimensional...
Porjai Chalermsook is a PhD student at the University of Utah, also a visiting doctoral student at Aalto University, Helsinki. Her research interests include international economics and development economics.
Evelyn Dietsche is an independent researcher and corporate sustainability advisor with nearly 20 years of experience, mostly related to the extractive industries. She has led and contributed to many assignments commissioned by mining companies,...
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...
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...
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.
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.
Peter Lanjouw, is professor in the faculty of Economics and Business Administration of VU University Amsterdam. Prior to joining the VU in 2015 he worked for more than 20 years in the research department of the World Bank, most recently as manager...
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...
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...
Shi Li is Professor of Economics and Acting Director of China Institute for Income Distribution at Beijing Normal University and a Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. He leads a group of researchers focussing on inequality and poverty...
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...
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...