Jean-Louis Arcand

Jean-Louis Arcand
Born1964 (age 6061)
NationalityCanadian
Academic background
Alma materMIT
InfluencesAmartya Sen, Ricardo Hausmann, James Heckman, Jerry Hausman
Academic work
DisciplineDevelopment economics, Impact Evaluation, Microeconomics, Rural Development
InstitutionsGraduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva, Centre for Finance and Development
Notable ideasToo Much Finance
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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.