
How can we generate more good jobs in developing countries?
'Kuznets’ paradigm' for jobs and structural change no longer holds, explains economist Dani Rodrik. So how should developing countries respond?
1979, AB in Government and Economics, Harvard College; 1981, Master's in Public Affairs, Princeton University; 1985, PhD in Economics, Princeton University. 1985-89, Assistant and 1989-92, Associate Professor of Public Policy, John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; 1992-96, Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Columbia University; 1996-2013, Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard University. Author of numerous articles, papers and books including: The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy (2011); One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth (2007); Making Openness Work: The New Global Economy and the Developing Countries (1999); Has Globalization Gone Too Far? (1997). Recipient of awards including, Albert O Hirschman Award, SSRC, and Leontief Prize, GDAE-Tufts. Expertise: international economic policy, economic development.
'Kuznets’ paradigm' for jobs and structural change no longer holds, explains economist Dani Rodrik. So how should developing countries respond?
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