Finn Tarp - The challenges of development aid
Channel: UN University
Date: 2013-09-20

Professor Finn Tarp is Director of United Nations University World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) and Chair of Professor of Development Economics at the Department of Economics at the University of Copenhagen, where he completed his MSc and PhD in Economics.

With extensive professional and academic experience in development economics, research and teaching, Prof. Tarp has also conducted fieldwork throughout Africa and further afield. 

Prof. Tarp is considered a leading international expert on issues of development strategy and foreign aid, income distribution and growth, micro- and macroeconomic policy, agricultural sector policy and planning and economic adjustment and reform. 

In this interview for United Nations University Conversation Series on Global Justice, Prof. Tarp discusses the challenges facing international aid, growth and development in the global world. 

You can find all the other videos in this series by clicking on the playlist link to the right of this video, or simply click on the link bellow:

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