Dr Gaaitzen de Vries

Gaaitzen de Vries is an associate professor (with ius promovendi) at the Department of Global Economics and Management at the University of Groningen and is a member of the Groningen Growth and Development Centre. His research is focused on international development economics, in particular on the relation between structural change, global value chains and economic development. De Vries has a PhD from the University of Groningen (2010). He is an advisor to various (international) organizations, such as the OECD and the World Bank. He has published extensively in journal including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, the Journal of Economic Geography, and the Journal of Development Economics.

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