Gordon Betcherman, Professor, School of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa,Martin Rama, Chief Economist for South Asia, The World Bank

Gordon Betcherman is a Professor in the School of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa. His research interests are in labor economics, demography, social policy, and the economics of development. His most recent publications are on the impacts of labor market regulation in developing countries, youth employment in sub-Saharan Africa, and poverty trends in Vietnamese fishing villages. Professor Betcherman was a co-author of the World Bank's 2013 World Development Report on Jobs. He is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Labor Studies (IZA). He joined the University of Ottawa in 2009 after 11 years at the World Bank. Professor Betcherman holds a PhD from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Martin Rama is Chief Economist for the South Asia region of the World Bank and was Director of the 2013 World Development Report on Jobs. He was Lead Economist for Vietnam for eight years, and before moving to operations, he spent ten years with the research department of the World Bank, working mainly on labor issues. His professional career started in CINVE, Uruguay's largest think tank. He has also been visiting professor at the graduate program in development economics at the Universite de Paris I. Dr Rama gained his degree in economics from the Universidad de la Republica and his Ph.D. in macroeconomics from the Universite de Paris I.

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Gordon Betcherman, University of Ottawa
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Abdel-Rahmen El Lahga, Université de Tunis
Colin Filer, Australian National University
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Benedict Y. Imbun, Western Sydney University
Phillipa Jenkins, Australian National University
Sam Jones, University of Copenhagen
Olga Kupets, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Mohamed Ali Marouani, Université Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne
Gabriel Martinez, ITAM
Martha Miranda-Munoz, University of Puebla
Martin Rama, The World Bank
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Edwin St Catherine, Central Statistical Office of St Lucia
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