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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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Risto Rönkkö is a research assistant at UNU-WIDER. He is pursuing his PhD in Economics at Univeristy of Tampere, Finland. His research interests include international finance, in particular exchange rate policies, and political economy...
Vincenzo Salvucci is a UNU-WIDER research fellow currently based at the Directorate of Economic and Financial Studies (DEEF) of the Ministry of Economics and Finance in Maputo, Mozambique, as part of the WIDER project "Inclusive growth in...
Ricardo Santos is a Research Fellow of the United Nations University World Institute of Development Economics Research - UNU-WIDER, stationed in Maputo, Mozambique. He is also an Associate Researcher of the Institute of International Inequalities of...
Caroline Schimanski is a part-time Research Assistant at UNU-WIDER. At the same time she is pursuing a PhD in Economics at the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland. Her research interests include economic development and sustainability...
Smriti Sharma is a Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Economics and a Masters degree in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics. Her research interests are in behavioral economics, development economics, and labour...
Saurabh Singhal is a research fellow at UNU-WIDER focusing in applied economics. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Southern California and a M.A. in economics from the Delhi School of Economics. His research interests include the...