Finn Tarp

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Research interests

• Development economics
• Poverty
• Income distribution and growth
• Micro- and macroeconomic policy and modeling

Teaching and supervision

I have over the years lectured at a great variety of institutions and places around the world, including countries in both the North and the South and have supervised a large number of students at bachelors, masters and PhD level at the University of Copenhagen. The focus in my teaching has been and remains development economics and its diverse sub-components. I am not at present teaching on a regular basis at the Department of Economics at the University of Copenhagen.

Recent publications

• ‘Linked-In by FDI: The Role of Firm-Level Relationships for Knowledge Transfers in Africa and Asia’. Published online in Journal of Development Studies. With C. Newman, J. Page, J. Rand, A. Shimeles and M. Söderbom.
• ‘Commodity Prices and Intra-Household Labor Allocation’. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 101(2), 2019, pp. 436-54. With U. Beck and S. Singhal.
• ‘Female Autonomy and Women's Welfare: An Introduction’. Review of Development Economics, vol. 22(4), 2018, pp. 1385-9. With S. Sharma.
• Industries Without Smokestacks: Industrialization in Africa Reconsidered. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, 451 pages. Editor with R. Newfarmer and J. Page.

Most downloaded publications (source: RePEc)

• ‘On the Empirics of Foreign Aid and Growth’. The Economic Journal, vol. 114(496), 2004, pp. F191-FF216. With C.-J. Dalgaard and H. Hansen.
• ‘Aid and Growth Regressions’. Journal of Development Economics, vol. 64(2), 2001, pp. 547-70. With H. Hansen.
• ‘Business Cycles in Developing Countries: Are They Different?’ World Development, vol. 30(12), 2002, pp. 2071-88. With J. Rand.
• ‘Financial Liberalization, Financial Development, and Economic Growth in LDCs’. Journal of International Development, vol. 15(2), 2003, pp. 189-208. With T. B. Andersen.

Most cited publications (source: Google Scholar)

• ‘Aid and Growth Regressions’. Journal of Development Economics, vol. 64(2), 2001, pp. 547-70. With H. Hansen.
• ‘Aid Effectiveness Disputed’. Journal of International Development, vol. 12(3), 2000, pp. 375-98. With H. Hansen.
• ‘On the Empirics of Foreign Aid and Growth’. The Economic Journal, vol. 114(496), 2004, pp. F191-FF216. With C.-J. Dalgaard and H. Hansen.
• Foreign Aid and Development: Lessons Learnt and Directions for the Future. London and New York: Routledge, 2000,512 pages. Editor, assisted by P. Hjertholm.

Media presence

• Video: ‘Interview with Professor Finn Tarp on SA-TIED’. DERG, University of Copenhagen. Published on 10 April 2019.
• Radio: ‘Interview with UNU-WIDER Director Finn Tarp’. Kaya FM. Published on 26 October 2018.
• Video: ‘Policy Formation and Implementation Process: Finn Tarp’. SABC Digital News. Published on 24 October 2018.
• Video: ‘Economic Transformation: Lessons for Development’. UNU-WIDER. Published on 28 August 2018.
• Video: ‘10 Lessons for Development’. UNU-WIDER. Published on 28 August 2018.
• Video: ‘Think Development - Think WIDER’. UNU-WIDER. Published on 21 August 2018.
• Blog: ‘Comprehensive Policy Change needed in Myanmar to Support Structural Transformation: Insights from the Myanmar Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Survey 2017’. WIDERAngle, September 2018.

Metrics

• Google Scholar information (as of 1 September 2022):

Cites	All	Since 2017
Cites	17288	7581
h-index	63	44
i10-indeks	175	129

• June 2022 RePEc rankings are available at https://ideas.repec.org/top/ They include a top 1% world wide rank among 64,618 authors and a top one Danish and a top seven Nordic position based on the average publications rank score the last 10 years.

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