Jean-Louis Arcand
Jean-Louis Arcand | |
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| Born | 1964 (age 60–61) |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | MIT |
| Influences | Amartya Sen, Ricardo Hausmann, James Heckman, Jerry Hausman |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Development economics, Impact Evaluation, Microeconomics, Rural Development |
| Institutions | Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva, Centre for Finance and Development |
| Notable ideas | Too Much Finance |
| Website | |
Jean-Louis Arcand (born 1964) is a Canadian economist born in Cameroon. He is a professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, where he also head of the PhD Development Economics programme. Arcand is also the head of the Department of Economics at the Graduate Institute. He is president of the Global Development Network, a founding fellow of the European Union Development Network and senior fellow at the Fondation pour les études et recherches en développement international.