Finn Tarp | |
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 Finn Tarp in 2012. | |
| Born | April 13, 1951 |
| Nationality | Danish |
| Alma mater | University of Copenhagen |
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| Website | www |
Finn Tarp (born 1951) is a Danish Professor of Development Economics at the University of Copenhagen (where he completed his MSc and PhD) and former Director of UNU-WIDER (2009-2018), Helsinki, Finland. [1] [2] [3] [4]
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 generally, including longer-term assignments in Swaziland, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Vietnam. [1]
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. [1]
He has published more than 100 articles in international 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 55 book chapters.
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’ as well as a Knighthood, Order of the Dannebrog, [5] by Her Majesty the Queen Margrethe II of Denmark.
Professor Finn Tarp is the author of more than 100 articles in internationally refereed journals, they include:
He has published several books, which include:
Professor Tarp is the author of some 120 Working Papers, among them:
He has published 50 international refereed book chapters, including:
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