Career
He is Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Management (formerly Faculty of Economics), at the University of Florence. He has previously been the director of the Regional Institute of Economic Planning of Tuscany (Istituto Regionale Programmazione Economica della Toscana, IRPET), the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (United Nations University-WIDER), in Helsinki, and the Economic and Policy Research Program, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund Office of Research-Innocenti, in Florence. He was formerly also Chief Economist, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, New New York
His main areas of professional interest are income and asset inequality, poverty, growth, child well-being, human development and mortality crises, transition economics, and institutional economics.
He is author of over a dozen books and dozens of articles, reports and working papers on practical development economics issues in individual countries, regions and globally.; van der Hoeven, Rolph.
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