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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. Since 2019 he has...

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...

Tony Addison is a Professor of Economics, University of Copenhagen in the Development Economics Research Group. He was a Chief Economist and Deputy Director of UNU-WIDER in Helsinki, Finland. He was previously Professor of Development Studies...

Kwabena Adu-Ababio is a Research Associate at UNU-WIDER. He is a core Fiscal Space research area member within the SOUTHMOD and Tax Research for Development projects. His work focuses on tax-benefit microsimulation models for Ghana and Zambia and Tax...

Hanna Berkel is a Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER based in Mozambique and working on the Inclusive growth in Mozambique – scaling-up research and capacity -programme. She is a development economist with a multidisciplinary background in microeconomic...

Haroon Bhorat is Professor of Economics and Director of the Development Policy Research Unit at the University of Cape Town. He is one of the most cited South African economists globally, with a total citation estimate of 8,400 and an h-index of 52...

Diogo Britto is an applied economist with interests in gender, development, and political economy. He is Assistant Professor (Rtd-B) of Economics at the University of Milan-Bicocca and UniCredit Foundation Marco Fanno Fellow. He is also a research...

Professor Philippe Burger has been the Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at the University of the Free State since March 2022, and he has held the position of Professor of Economics since 2007. As Professor of Economics...

André Decoster (Belgium, 1958) is full professor at the Faculty of Business and Economics of KU Leuven, where he teaches courses Principles of Economics, Public Finance, and Welfare, Inequality and Poverty. He received his PhD in economics from KU...

Amina Ebrahim

Amina Ebrahim is a Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. She is the focal point for the Domestic Revenue Mobilisation programme. She previously worked on UNU-WIDER’s Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED) in Pretoria, South Africa...

Kevin P. Gallagher is a professor of global development policy at Boston University (BU), where he directs the Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center). The GDP Center’s mission is to advance policy-relevant research for financial stability...

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 in Domestic Revenue Mobilization programme. She holds a PhD in Economics from University of Turku. Her research...

Ravi Kanbur researches and teaches in development economics, public economics, and economic theory at Cornell University. He has served on the senior staff of the World Bank including as Chief Economist for Africa. He has also published in leading...

Michael Kilumelume is a Data Developer for the Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED) programme. His role entails making micro-level South African administrative data useable for policy-relevant research at the National...

Richard Kima is a UNU-WIDER Research Fellow. He is currently working on the Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED) programme in Pretoria, South Africa. He is primarily involved in research and capacity development...

Nagesh Kumar is the Director and Chief Executive of the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID). Before this role, which he assumed in May 2021, Dr. Kumar held senior positions at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for...

Olli-Pekka Kuusela is a Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. His work focuses on the links between climate change, just transition, and distributional outcomes in Global South countries, with a specific focus on environmental taxation. He has previously...

Rahul Lahoti is a development economist with research interests at the cross section of gender, poverty measurement, inequality, social stratification and labour markets. He has worked previously as a Post-doctoral research fellow at ETH, Zurich and...

Jesse Lastunen is a research associate at UNU-WIDER, specialising in tax-benefit microsimulation modelling. His research focuses on public economics, especially social policy, taxation, and employment. Currently, Jesse coordinates the research and...

Santiago Levy is currently a Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution and member of the board of various development organizations. Before that, he was Vice-president at the Inter-American Development Bank, General Director of Mexico’s Social...

Bruce McDougall is a data developer at UNU-WIDER, where he helps facilitate the National Treasury's secure data facility. The research made possible by the lab is used by a variety of organizations to help improve policy via data-driven decision...

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...

Aimable Nsabimana is a Development Economist and a Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. Currently he works on the Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED) programme, under which he provides technical support to the Steering Group...

Rodrigo is a Research Associate at UNU-WIDER, and his research interests are Development Economics, Economics of Education, and Labor Economics. His leading research focuses on the impact of education on a wide range of outcomes and uses different...

Antti Pelanteri is an Economics 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 data quality.

Christopher Wayne Pillay is a Data Scientist at UNU-WIDER and is currently working on the Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED) programme in Pretoria, South Africa. He previously worked for UNU-WIDER as a Data Consultant...

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...

Michelle Pleace is a Research Associate at UNU-WIDER, contributing to the Southern Africa - Towards Inclusive Economic Development program. Her work involves producing partially anonymized tax administrative data. Her research interests lie in...

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...

Ritva Reinikka, a Finnish national, is Professor of Practice at the Helsinki Graduate School of Economics, based at Aalto University School of Business in Helsinki. She is also a Special Adviser (education) to the European Union Commissioner for...

Nadine Riedel is the Director of the Institute for Public and Regional Economics at the University of Münster in Germany. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Munich in 2008 and was a research fellow at the Oxford University Centre for...

Laura Saavedra-Lux is a Research Associate at UNU-WIDER. In her work she examines the micro-foundations of political violence, socio-economic development, and the consolidation of peace. She is specifically interested in understanding how ordinary...

Breno Sampaio is Associate Professor of Economics at the Federal University of Pernambuco/UFPE in Brazil. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign/UIUC. His main research interests include labor economics...

Ricardo Santos is a UNU-WIDER Research Fellow stationed in Maputo, Mozambique, focused on the Inclusive growth in Mozambique – scaling-up research and capacity -programme and Technical Resident Advisor to the Centre of Economics and Management...

Dr Savoia is a Reader 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 outcomes and...

Edson Severnini is an Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University (Heinz College), a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), and a Research Associate at the NBER in the following programs...

Andy Sumner is Professor of International Development at King’s College London and President of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI). He has twenty years’ international research experience using both...

Mark Swilling is Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Development in the Centre for Sustainability Transitions (CST) in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Stellenbosch and Co-Director of the CST, and as from September...

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...

Santiago Tobón is a Professor of Economics at Universidad EAFIT in Medellín, Colombia. He received his PhD in Economics from Universidad de los Andes in 2018, an MA in Economics from Universidad de los Andes in 2017, and an MA in Economics from...

Professor lmraan Valodia is Professor of Economics; Pro Vice-Chancellor: Climate, Sustainability and Inequality; and Director of the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Wits). His research interests...

Justin van Dijk is a lecturer in Social and Geographic Data Science at the Department of Geography, University College London (UCL), United Kingdom. Prior to joining UCL in 2018, he obtained a PhD from Stellenbosch University, South Africa...

Anna Zasova is a Research Associate at UNU-WIDER, working on the SOUTHMOD project. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Latvia.Her research interests include public and labor economics, with a focus on labor taxation, tax evasion, and...

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