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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...
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...
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...
Arkebe Oqubay, PhD, is a Senior Minister and Special Adviser to the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, has been at the centre of policy-making for over twenty-five years. He currently serves as Chair of several leading public organizations and...
Dilip Mookherjee is Professor of Economics and Director, Institute for Economic Development at Boston University. He received his PhD from the London School of Economics in 1982, and has previously taught at Stanford University and the Indian...
Oliver Morrissey is Professor in Development Economics and Director of CREDIT, School of Economics, University of Nottingham, where he has been since 1989. He is a Managing Co-Editor of the Journal of Development Studies (since 2006) and was a...
Carol Newman is a professor of economics at the Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin. Her research is in the microeconomics of development with a focus on household and enterprise behaviour. She has published widely in the fields of...
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-...
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,...
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...
Annalena Oppel is a Research Associate at UNU-WIDER working on the World Income Inequality Database ( WIID ) and the Government Revenue Dataset ( GRD ). She obtained her PhD from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK. Her...
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...
Janneke Pieters is Assistant Professor in Development Economics at Wageningen University, and Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). Her research interests are primarily in the fields of labour economics and development economics...
Jukka Pirttilä is a professor of public economics at the University of Helsinki and also works as a Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. He has previously worked for the University of Tampere, Labour Institute for Economic Research...
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...
John Rand is a professor of development economics at the University of Copenhagen. His research focus includes: industrial policy and firm dynamics; quantitative impact evaluation of development projects; and macroeconomics of international capital...
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...
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...
Dr Savoia is a senior lecturer in development economics at the University of Manchester's Global Development Institute. His research has looked at the determinants of governance and institutional performance and how they impinge on development...