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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...
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...
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...
Kwabena Adu-Ababio is a research assistant at UNU-WIDER, also pursuing a PhD at the University of Helsinki. His work at UNU-WIDER focuses on tax-benefit microsimulation models as well as Tax administration and organisation. His research interests...
Michael Danquah, a development economist, is a Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER currently serving as co-focal point for the project Transforming informal work and livelihoods within UNU-WIDER's 2019–23 work programme. Michael is a visiting...
Amina Ebrahim is an economist holding a PhD from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She is a Research Associate at UNU-WIDER based in Helsinki where she is a core researcher in the Domestic Revenue Mobilisation programme. She previously...
Eva-Maria Egger is an applied economist holding a PhD from the University of Sussex, UK. She is a WIDER Research Fellow based in Mozambique where she also works as technical advisor for poverty assessment to the Ministry of Economics and Finance as...
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...
Kalle Hirvonen is a Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, seconded from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Through his research, Kalle seeks to understand how to sustainably improve nutrition and food security outcomes in low-income...
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 Associate at UNU-WIDER, where she works on topics related to taxation and tax-benefit microsimulation models. She is pursuing her PhD in Economics at University of Turku. Her research interest is in development and public...
Aliisa Koivisto is a Research Associate at UNU-WIDER where her work focuses on tax research under the Domestic Revenue Mobilization (DRM) programme. She defended her PhD in Economics from University of Helsinki in September 2021. Her research...
Jesse Lastunen is a research associate at UNU-WIDER, where his work focuses on tax-benefit microsimulation models. He has previously worked for organizations such as OECD, RAND Corporation, Internet Association, and the Technopolis Group, conducting...
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...
Rute Martins Caeiro, a development economist, is a Research Associate at UNU-WIDER. Her research aims to identify economic mechanisms with the potential to inform policy design, particularly in the context of rural development. The core of her work...
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...
Enrico Nichelatti is a research assistant at UNU-WIDER. His work focuses on tax benefit microsimulation models. He has previously worked for the Economic Policy Research Institute, focusing on the analysis of the social and economic impact of COVID-...
Milla Nyyssölä has a PhD in economics with research experience in labour and gender economics, poverty, vulnerability and inequality, tax-benefit microsimulation models, behavioural economics, and development aid. She is the focal point of...
Rodrigo Oliveira is a Research Associate at UNU-WIDER working on tax-benefit microsimulation models. His research interests are development economics and applied economics, focusing on education, health, poverty, and inequality. He is on a leave of...
Klarizze Puzon is a Research Associate at UNU-WIDER. She is an applied economist who uses game theory, experiments (laboratory and artefactual field designs), and surveys as tools. Broadly speaking, her interests focus on the understanding of...
Pia Rattenhuber is a Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. She has previously worked for OECD (Department of Labour and Social Affairs), the German Ministry of Economics and the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW Berlin). She attained her PhD from...
Ricardo Santos is a UNU-WIDER Research Fellow, stationed in Maputo, Mozambique, as Technical Advisor to the Centre of Economics and Management Studies at the Faculty of Economics of Eduardo Mondlane University. He holds a PhD in Economics from the...
Simone Schotte is a development economist with research interests at the cross-roads of inequality, social stratification, and labour markets research. She joined UNU-WIDER as Research Associate in February 2019. Before coming to Helsinki, she...
Abrams Mbu Enow Tagem is a research associate with UNU-WIDER. He holds a PhD in economics and a Master’s degree in economic development and policy analysis, both from the University of Nottingham, UK. He is an empirical development economist,...