Erik
Thorbecke
Erik Thorbecke is the H.E. Babcock Professor of Economics and Food Economics and
Director of the Program on Comparative Economic Development at Cornell University.
He is also a past chairman of the Department of Economics at Cornell. He received
his early training at the Netherlands School of Economics and holds a Ph.D. degree
in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley. He was awarded an
honorary doctorate degree by the University of Ghent in 1981. He has made significant
contributions in the areas of economic and agricultural development, the measurement
and analysis of poverty and malnutrition, the Social Accounting Matrix, general
equilibrium modeling and international economic policy. He has been an economic
advisor to numerous U.S., international agencies, and foreign governments. He
has authored or co-authored more than 20 books and 150 articles.
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