Remco Oostendorp (PhD Harvard) is Professor of International Economics. He is also a Research Fellow of the Tinbergen Institute (TI), Fellow of the Amsterdam Institute for International Development (AIID), and Resource Person for the African Economic Resource Consortium (AERC). He has worked as an international consultant for the World Bank, ADB, ILO, UNDP, USAid, IDRC, among others.
Remco Oostendorp is an economist whose research focuses on development economics, including the effects of globalization, integration of labour markets, firm performance, and agricultural intensification, with a strong emphasis on micro-level empirical analysis. He is also known for his contributions to global occupational wage and firm level databases, which support comparative research on global pay and productivity differentials. More broadly, his research aims to improve understanding of how market imperfections in developing countries shape economic performance and effective policy for inclusive growth.
BSc: International Trade, Growth and Development, Development of Macroeconomic Thought.
Msc/ PhD: Microeconomics for Development, Development Economics
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