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Tarp, Finn

Director of the United Nations University Institut
UNU-WIDER
United Nations University
Finland

Biography

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 generally, including longer-term assignments in Swaziland, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Vietnam. He is the Director of UNU-WIDER since 2009 and also Professor of Development Economics at the University of Copenhagen. Professor Tarp is a leading international expert on issues of development strategy and foreign aid, with an interest in poverty, income distribution and growth, micro- and macroeconomic policy and modeling, agricultural sector policy and planning, household and enterprise development, and economic adjustment and reform as well as climate change, sustainability and natural resources. He has published 97 articles in internationally refereed academic journals—including The Economic Journal, Journal of Development Economics, World Bank Economic Review, European Economic Review, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, World Development, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Land Economics, Review of Income and Wealth, Journal of Economic Geography, Feminist Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, and Climatic Change—alongside five books, 19 edited book volumes and special journal issues and 53 book chapters with international academic publishers plus a large number of research reports and other studies and publications. In addition to his university positions, Finn Tarp has held senior posts and advisory positions within government and with donor organizations, and he is member of a large number of international committees and advisory bodies. They include the European Union Development Network (EUDN) and the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC). From 2013 – 2016 he also served as a member of the World Bank Chief Economist’s 15 member ‘Council of Eminent Persons’ advising the Chief Economist and he has been awarded the Vietnamese Government Medals of Honour for ‘Support to the Planning and Investment System’ and the ‘Cause of Science and Technology’.

Research Interest

Applied development economics

Publications

  • Arndt, Channing, Jones, Sam and Tarp, Finn (2015). Mozambique : Off-track or Temporarily Sidelined?. UNU-WIDER.

  • McKay, Andrew, Pirttilä, Jukka and Tarp, Finn (2015). Ghana : Poverty Reduction Over Thirty Years. UNU-WIDER.

  • Arndt, Channing, Demery, Lionel, McKay, Andrew and Tarp, Finn (2015). Growth and Poverty Reduction in Tanzania. UNU-WIDER.

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