The Next Einstein Could Be From Anywhere: Why Developing Country Growth Matters for Progress
CCI’s Jeff Mason was published in the Progress Forum alongside authors Kartik Akileswaran and Jonathan Mazumdar.
May 22, 2023
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Professor Matthew McCartney spent twenty years as an academic at the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS), University of London (2000-2011), and at the University of Oxford (2011-21). He has been a visiting Professor at Universities in China, Pakistan, India, Japan, South Korea, Poland, and Belgium. He is a development economist by background with a teaching and research specialization in the economic development of India and Pakistan after 1947. He has published, supervised, and taught on economic issues relating to industrialization, technology, trade, the role of the state, investment and economic growth, and human development issues relating to nutrition, employment, education, poverty, and inequality. He has also worked for the World Bank, USAID, EU, and UNDP in Botswana, Georgia, Bangladesh, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Jordan, Bosnia, and Zambia.
He holds a BA in Economics from the University of Cambridge, an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford, and a Ph.D. in Economics from SOAS, University of London. His latest book is the outcome of two years of research-based in China and Pakistan ‘The Dragon from the Mountains: The CPEC from Kashgar to Gwadar’ and was published by Cambridge University Press in 2021.
OSGA Thematic Research Clusters
Book: The Dragon from the Mountains
Class and Conflict: Revisiting Pranab Bardhan’s Political Economy of India
New Perspectives on Pakistan’s Political Economy
Economic Growth and Development: A Comparative Introduction
Pakistan – The Political Economy of Growth, Stagnation, and the State
Political Economy, Growth and Liberalisation in India
CCI’s Jeff Mason was published in the Progress Forum alongside authors Kartik Akileswaran and Jonathan Mazumdar.
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