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Top 10% Institutions and Economists in the Field of Africa, as of February 2019

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Top 10% institutions in the field of Africa

For Africa, these are 909 authors affiliated with 1650 institutions.
All authors classified in this field.

RankInstitutionScoreAuthorsAuthor shares
1World Bank Group

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

1.1451154.91
---Economics Research, World Bank Group

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

2.9812813.27
2International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

3.1817742.82
3Department of Economics, Oxford University

Oxford, United Kingdom

4.541735.98
4Economics Department, Brown University

Providence, Rhode Island (USA)

6.23540.94
---Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Department of Economics, Oxford University

Oxford, United Kingdom

7.91294.13
5International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

8.2141916.9
6London School of Economics (LSE)

London, United Kingdom

9.692934.89
7Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Michigan State University

East Lansing, Michigan (USA)

10.736914.08
8Fakulteit Ekonomiese en Bestuurswetenskappe, University of Stellenbosch

Stellenbosch, South Africa

13.27231.31
9National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

13.323930.78
10Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

15.05720.76
11Handelshögskolan, Göteborgs Universitet

Göteborg, Sweden

15.36689.74
12Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois (USA)

16.04211.01
---Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan, Göteborgs Universitet

Göteborg, Sweden

16.84559.64
---Department of Economics, Fakulteit Ekonomiese en Bestuurswetenskappe, University of Stellenbosch

Stellenbosch, South Africa

17.996225.85
---International Bank for Reconstruction & Development (IBRD), World Bank Group

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

20.449811.78
13Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

20.82490.5
14Department of Economics, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

21.08780.28
15Faculty of Commerce, University of Cape Town

Cape Town, South Africa

21.156713.5
---School of Economics, Faculty of Commerce, University of Cape Town

Cape Town, South Africa

22.766513.35
16Paris School of Economics

Paris, France

26.321902.47
17Department of International Development (Queen Elizabeth House), Oxford University

Oxford, United Kingdom

27.35201.1
18Economics Department, Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

27.94481.43
19Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University

Stanford, California (USA)

29.0980.35
---Economics Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

Durham, North Carolina (USA)

30.7470.75
20Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

Durham, North Carolina (USA)

30.74190.75
21Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet

Stockholm, Sweden

30.77230.67
22Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University

Ithaca, New York (USA)

33.84320.78
23Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE)

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

34.1360.33
24Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley

Berkeley, California (USA)

34.5540.22
---Department of Economics, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria

Pretoria, South Africa

34.732810.85
25Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria

Pretoria, South Africa

34.732810.85
26Department of Economics, Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

41.38570.12
27Department of Economics, Stanford University

Stanford, California (USA)

41.48510.56
---Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU), School of Economics, Faculty of Commerce, University of Cape Town

Cape Town, South Africa

42.62256.38
28Economics Department, University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA)

43.76631.14
29Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)

44.28340.22
---Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE)

London, United Kingdom

44.48510.77
30Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

London, United Kingdom

45.32920.29
31African Development Bank

Abidjan (temporarily Tunis, Tunisia), Côte d'Ivoire

45.31238.46
32Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

Milano, Italy

46.591671.52
33Department of Economics, Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois (USA)

47.7420.46
34Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario

London, Canada

48.14450.5
---Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics (LSE)

London, United Kingdom

48.73280.17
35Department of Economics, University of Notre Dame

South Bend, Indiana (USA)

48.92410.89
36Department of Economics, New York University (NYU)

New York City, New York (USA)

51.97490.48
37Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Bonn, Germany

53.386722.49
38Center for Global Development (CGD)

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

53.67161.71
39Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, University of the Witwatersrand

Johannesburg, South Africa

54.69255.5
40Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE)

Paris, France

58.362436.94
41Inter-American Development Bank

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

63.341172.18
42Sussex Business School, University of Sussex

Brighton, United Kingdom

64.36894.06
---Development Economics Research Group - DERG, Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet

København, Denmark

66.92141.69
43Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

68.24161.1
44Department of Finance, National Sun Yat-Sen University

Kaohsiung, Taiwan

69.8310.4
45Business School, Imperial College

London, United Kingdom

72.38420.17
---John E. Walker Department of Economics, College of Business and Behavioral Science, Clemson University

Clemson, South Carolina (USA)

72.73341.07
46College of Business and Behavioral Science, Clemson University

Clemson, South Carolina (USA)

72.73361.07
---Business Economics, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

Toronto, Canada

72.9891.05
47Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

Toronto, Canada

72.98411.05
---Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

74.16592.25
48Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Bruxelles, Belgium

75.011561.26
49Faculty of Economic and Financial Sciences, University of Johannesburg

Auckland Park, South Africa

76.323210.06
50African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI)

Yaoundé, Cameroun

76.5740.43
51Economics Department, University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC)

Santa Cruz, California (USA)

76.88260.52
52Department of Economics, Cornell University

Ithaca, New York (USA)

78.15400.26
53Department of Economics, University of Maryland

College Park, Maryland (USA)

80.34450.59
54Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia

Vancouver, Canada

80.65460.49
55Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University

West Lafayette, Indiana (USA)

82.42412.15
56Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture, Government of the United States

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

82.921482.97
---European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Bruxelles, Belgium

83.26621.01
57Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)

Toulouse, France

84.811592.41
58Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, KU Leuven

Leuven, Belgium

85.031352.1
59Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

86.04400.06
60Department of Economics, University of Warwick

Coventry, United Kingdom

90.91840.9
61Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley

Berkeley, California (USA)

91.51430.12
62National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)

Tokyo, Japan

92.36412.49
63Department of Economics, University of Toronto

Toronto, Canada

92.64570.25
64Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana

Legon, Ghana

92.9531.62
---Department of Economics, Sussex Business School, University of Sussex

Brighton, United Kingdom

93.05593.33
65School of Business and Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Lisboa, Portugal

93.42511.29
66Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge

Cambridge, United Kingdom

93.68662.36
67Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne

Lausanne, Switzerland

94.05510.58
---Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement International (CERDI), École d'Économie, Université d'Auvergne (Clermont-Ferrand 1)

Clermont-Ferrand, France

96.89574.56
68École d'Économie, Université d'Auvergne (Clermont-Ferrand 1)

Clermont-Ferrand, France

96.89574.56
69Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, Utah State University

Logan, Utah (USA)

97.34210.66
---Department of Economics and Finance, Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, Utah State University

Logan, Utah (USA)

97.34190.66
70Brookings Institution

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

97.75320.22
71United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT)

Maastricht, Netherlands

97.781043.23
72Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA)

97.9481.16
73Instituut voor Ontwikkelingsbeleid en -beheer (IOB), Universiteit Antwerpen

Antwerpen, Belgium

98.97172.34
74Economics Department, Georgetown University

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

99.23470.32
75Department of Economics, University of Southern California

Los Angeles, California (USA)

100.39510.54
---School of Economic and Business Sciences, Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, University of the Witwatersrand

Johannesburg, South Africa

100.77164.17
76Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF), Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Shanghai, China

102.75370.57
---Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

Milano, Italy

103.01490.26
77Cass Business School, City University

London, United Kingdom

103.1370.08
---Center for Analytic Research and Economics in the Social Sciences (CARESS), Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)

103.8110.13
---Department of Economics, London Business School (LBS)

London, United Kingdom

104.56120.24
78London Business School (LBS)

London, United Kingdom

104.56290.24
79Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland

College Park, Maryland (USA)

105.08272.08
80Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE)

Barcelona, Spain

105.271640.52
---Economic Growth Center, Economics Department, Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

107.2380.81
81Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, University of Virginia

Charlottesville, Virginia (USA)

107.46221
82Department of Economics, Obafemi Awolowo University

Ile-Ife, Nigeria

108.13123.5
83Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA)

Cape Town, South Africa

109.63369.39
84Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois (USA)

111.48460.73
85École d'Économie d'Aix-Marseille, Aix-Marseille Université

Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, France

111.761071.3
86Asian Development Bank

Manila, Philippines

112.07400.95
87Economics Department, Williams College

Williamstown, Massachusetts (USA)

112.29290.37
88Department of Economics, University of Sheffield

Sheffield, United Kingdom

113.07412.85
89Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame

South Bend, Indiana (USA)

115.0280.16
---Department of Finance, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame

South Bend, Indiana (USA)

115.0270.16
---Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM), École d'Économie d'Aix-Marseille, Aix-Marseille Université

Marseille, France

115.22850.8
90School of Economics, University of Nottingham

Nottingham, United Kingdom

116.171021.44
91Department of Economics, University of South Florida

Tampa, Florida (USA)

118.69131.26
92Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet

København, Denmark

118.75711.99
93China Center for Economic Research (CCER), Peking University

Beijing, China

120.8230.36
94Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Heidelberg, Germany

120.93301.07
95Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Madison, Wisconsin (USA)

122.73281.13
96Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

123.52230.22
---Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich Economies (OxCarre), Department of Economics, Oxford University

Oxford, United Kingdom

125.42150.09
---Alfred-Weber-Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Heidelberg, Germany

126.88270.41
97DIAL

Paris, France

126.96362.84
98Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Groningen, Netherlands

127.03761.48
99Department of Economics, University College London (UCL)

London, United Kingdom

127.29740.39
100Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Davis

Davis, California (USA)

128.39230.31
---LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, KU Leuven

Leuven, Belgium

128.53241.75
101Department of Economics, Tufts University

Medford, Massachusetts (USA)

129.89240.7
102Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW)

Kiel, Germany

132.84651.83
103College of Business and Economics, Australian National University

Canberra, Australia

133.44510.94
---Research School of Economics, College of Business and Economics, Australian National University

Canberra, Australia

133.44440.94
104Economics Department, Queen's University

Kingston, Canada

135.64510.44
---Department of Economics, Lerner College of Business and Economics, University of Delaware

Newark, Delaware (USA)

136.49330.87
105Lerner College of Business and Economics, University of Delaware

Newark, Delaware (USA)

136.49370.87
106Division of International Banking & Finance Studies, Texas A&M International University

Laredo, Texas (USA)

136.9220.3
107Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute (IAPRI)

Lusaka, Zambia

137.44135.39
108Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

138.25470.06
109School of Economics and Business, Norges miljø- og biovitenskapelig universitet

Ås, Norway

140.51100.56
110Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT)

México, Mexico

141.9112.73
111Department of Applied Economics, College of Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota-St. Paul

St. Paul, Minnesota (USA)

142.33500.46
112Department of Economics, Swarthmore College

Swarthmore, Pennsylvania (USA)

143.5140.58
113International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), United Nations

Roma, Italy

145.55112.2
114Business School, Deakin University

Melbourne, Australia

146.69780.63
115Monash Business School, Monash University

Melbourne, Australia

146.941530.82
116Department of Economics, University of Houston

Houston, Texas (USA)

147.4210.84
117Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA)

147.68471.81
118Department of Economics, Duke University

Durham, North Carolina (USA)

149.1420.3
119School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Amsterdam, Netherlands

149.37960.79
120Institute of Social Studies (ISS)

Den Haag, Netherlands

153.57151.41
121Environmental Sciences and Policy Division, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University

Durham, North Carolina (USA)

156.7841.08
122Economics Department, Dartmouth College

Hanover, New Hampshire (USA)

157.29330.13
---Centre de développement, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE)

Paris, France

157.84253.87
123Faculté d'administration, Université de Sherbrooke

Sherbrooke, Canada

157.86272.02
124Department of Economics, American University

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

158.86261.05
125Leerstoelgroep Ontwikkelingseconomie, Wageningen Universiteit en Researchcentrum

Wageningen, Netherlands

161.54131.93
---Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

164.0420.09
---Wits Business School, Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, University of the Witwatersrand

Johannesburg, South Africa

164.8161.32
126Department of Economics, George Washington University

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

165.18650.78
---Department of Economics, Monash Business School, Monash University

Melbourne, Australia

165.29700.72
127College of Business and Economics, Lehigh University

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (USA)

165.6281
---Economics Department, College of Business and Economics, Lehigh University

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (USA)

165.6271
128Department of Economics, University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas (USA)

166.84100.5
---Department of Economics and Legal Studies in Business, Spears School of Business, Oklahoma State University

Stillwater, Oklahoma (USA)

168.97210.5
129Spears School of Business, Oklahoma State University

Stillwater, Oklahoma (USA)

168.97300.5
130Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)

171.45781.18
131Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

Medford, Massachusetts (USA)

171.7330.53
132School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University

Maastricht, Netherlands

172.97880.6
133Department of Economics, Leicester University

Leicester, United Kingdom

174.44310.48
134Sciences économiques, Sciences Po

Paris, France

175.041011.51
135Geneva School of Economics and Management, Université de Genève

Genève, Switzerland

176.82320.71
136Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH)

Bergen, Norway

178.8990.69
---Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration, Université de Sherbrooke

Sherbrooke, Canada

178.84231.96
137German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

Hamburg, Germany

180.59275.02
---Bureau for Economic Research, Fakulteit Ekonomiese en Bestuurswetenskappe, University of Stellenbosch

Stellenbosch, South Africa

182.5373.48
---Data Group, World Bank Group

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

183.05101.46
138Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine

Irvine, California (USA)

183.29440.26
139World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU/WIDER), United Nations University

Helsinki, Finland

185.581.17
140Department of Economics, Maxwell School, Syracuse University

Syracuse, New York (USA)

187.24182.09
141Graduate School of Business, Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

188.19420.09
---Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE)

Barcelona, Spain

189.26940.29
142Department of Economics, Boston College

Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA)

189.71531.39
---Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH)

Bergen, Norway

191.28300.55
---Finance and Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

192.55260.09
143World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)

Nairobi, Kenya

194.2141.62
---Department of Economics, Business School, Deakin University

Melbourne, Australia

196.32450.45
144Groupe de Recherche en Économie Théorique et Appliquée (GREThA), Université de Bordeaux

Bordeaux, France

197.58792.81
145EconomiX, Université Paris-Nanterre (Paris X)

Nanterre, France

197.671201.2
146Department Volkswirtschaftlehre, Universität Bern

Bern, Switzerland

198.09340.12
---Atelier de Recherche Quantitative Appliquée au Développement Économique (ARQADE), Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)

Toulouse, France

198.28100.38
147Business School, University of Stellenbosch

Stellenbosch, South Africa

200.7652.2
---Department of Economics, Sciences économiques, Sciences Po

Paris, France

201.99410.63
148Independent Institute

Oakland, California (USA)

203.1410.34
149Chr. Michelsen Institute

Bergen, Norway

203.792
150Département d'Économique, Université Laval

Québec, Canada

204.52290.67
151Facoltà di Economia / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Libera Università di Bolzano / Freie Universität Bozen

Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

204.57260.71
152Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Sociales et de Gestion (FSESG), Université de Namur

Namur, Belgium

204.77371.66
153Department of Economics, Florida State University

Tallahassee, Florida (USA)

206.08330.58
154Institut for Økonomi, Aarhus Universitet

Aarhus, Denmark

206.61110.73
155Faculté de Sciences Économiques et de Gestion, Université de Toulon et du Var

La Garde, France

207.65121.16
---Laboratoire d'Économie Appliquée au Développement (LEAD), Faculté de Sciences Économiques et de Gestion, Université de Toulon et du Var

La Garde, France

207.6591.16
156International Economics Section, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Genève, Switzerland

209.65532.27
---Centre de Recherche en Économie de Développement (CRED), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Sociales et de Gestion (FSESG), Université de Namur

Namur, Belgium

210.06171.59
157Faculty of Economics, Kobe University

Kobe, Japan

212.11380.21
---Center for Global Trade Analysis (GTAP), Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University

West Lafayette, Indiana (USA)

216.66110.45
158Department of Economics, University of Birmingham

Birmingham, United Kingdom

216.68340.29
159Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Göttingen, Germany

218.15571.51
160Institutt for Samfunnsøkonomi, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskaplige universitet (NTNU)

Trondheim, Norway

218.82170.63
---Finance Department, London School of Economics (LSE)

London, United Kingdom

219.57110.04
161Department of Economics and Geography, University of North Florida

Jacksonville, Florida (USA)

223.3780.55
162Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)

Los Angeles, California (USA)

223.81290.05
163Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University

Oxford, United Kingdom

224.3770.6
---Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE)

London, United Kingdom

226.16720.2
164Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI)

Madrid, Spain

228.46210.06
165Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations

Roma, Italy

229.13273.45

The rankings

Top 10% authors in the field of Africa

For Africa, these are 909 authors affiliated with 1650 institutions.
All authors classified in this field.

RankAuthorScore
1Stefan Dercon

Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Department of Economics, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

4.48
2Marcel Fafchamps

Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA)

5.97
3James Levinsohn

5.98
4William Easterly

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

6.25
5Paul Collier

Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Department of Economics, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

8.27
6Simon Johnson

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

8.31
7David Malin Roodman

8.53
8David N. Weil

Economics Department, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (USA)

8.92
9Dani Rodrik

Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

10.05
10Pascaline Dupas

Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA)

11.53
11Anne Case

Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (USA)
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

12.03
12Thomas S. Jayne

Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan (USA)

12.39
13James Alan Robinson

Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (USA)

13.25
14Simplice A Asongu

African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé, Cameroun

13.78
15Jakob Svensson

Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet, Stockholm, Sweden

16.07
16J. Vernon Henderson

Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom

18.12
17Oded Galor

Economics Department, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (USA)

19.94
18Nathan Nunn

Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

20.03
19Edward Andrew Miguel

Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA)

21.77
20Xinshen Diao

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

23.54
21Anthony J. Venables

Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom
Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich Economies (OxCarre), Department of Economics, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

24.15
22Christopher R. Udry

Department of Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (USA)

26.32
23John Muellbauer

Department of Economics, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

26.36
24David Allen Lam

Economics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA)

28.88
25Rangan Gupta

Department of Economics, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

29.61
26Christopher B. Barrett

Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (USA)

31.13
27Augustin Kwasi Fosu

Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

32.46
28Franklin Allen

Business School, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

34.72
29Glenn Paul Jenkins

Economics Department, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada

35.15
30Dean S. Karlan

Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (USA)

36.69
31Esther Duflo

Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

36.78
32Quentin Wodon

World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

37.44
33Jonathan Robinson

Economics Department, University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC), Santa Cruz, California (USA)

40.06
34Paul Robert Masson

Department of Economics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

40.21
35Markus P. Goldstein

World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

41.01
36Douglas Gollin

Department of International Development (Queen Elizabeth House), Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

41.02
37Arne Bigsten

Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan, Göteborgs Universitet, Göteborg, Sweden

41.31
38Klaus W. Deininger

Economics Research, World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

41.35
39Sherman Robinson

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

43.37
40James Thurlow

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

43.72
41Sanjaya Lall †

43.89
42Isaac M. Mbiti

Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia (USA)

44.03
43James Fenske

Department of Economics, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

45.34
44Robert Cull

Economics Research, World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

46.61
45Takashi Yamano

Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines

48.94
46Elias Papaioannou

Department of Economics, London Business School (LBS), London, United Kingdom

49.05
47Aart Kraay

Economics Research, World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

50.42
48Thorsten Beck

Cass Business School, City University, London, United Kingdom

50.9
49Simeon Djankov

Finance Department, London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom
Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE), Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

52.07
50Carlos Pestana Barros †

53.46
51Arvind Subramanian

Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE), Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

54.22
52Antonio Ciccone

Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE), Barcelona, Spain

54.35
53Eliana La Ferrara

Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom

55.43
54Damien de Walque

Economics Research, World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

57.39
55Philip Verwimp

European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium

57.84
56Stelios Michalopoulos

Economics Department, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (USA)

58.19
57John Hoddinott

Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (USA)

58.31
58Kathleen Beegle

International Bank for Reconstruction & Development (IBRD), World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

60.45
59Christopher Blattman

Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (USA)

60.56
60Menale Kassie Berresaw

60.62
61Johannes Wolfgang Fedderke

Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA), Cape Town, South Africa

61.96
62Margaret McMillan

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

62.18
63Stephen A. O'Connell

Department of Economics, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania (USA)

62.83
64John Leonard Pender

Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture, Government of the United States, Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

66.79
65John C. Anyanwu

African Development Bank, Abidjan (temporarily Tunis, Tunisia), Côte d'Ivoire

66.85
66Robert Owen Mendelsohn

Economics Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

67.53
67George R.G. Clarke

Division of International Banking & Finance Studies, Texas A&M International University, Laredo, Texas (USA)

68.4
68Bart Minten

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

70.2
69Dean Yang

Economics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA)
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA)

70.25
70David Bloom

Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

71.72
71Francis John Teal

Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Department of Economics, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

72.02
72Finn Tarp

Development Economics Research Group - DERG, Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet, København, Denmark

73.07
73Taryn Dinkelman

Department of Economics, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana (USA)

74.39
74Gunnar Köhlin

Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan, Göteborgs Universitet, Göteborg, Sweden

75.38
75Imran Rasul

Department of Economics, University College London (UCL), London, United Kingdom

78.96
76Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan

Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland (USA)

79.85
77Harounan Kazianga

Department of Economics and Legal Studies in Business, Spears School of Business, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma (USA)

79.86
78Justin Yifu Lin

China Center for Economic Research (CCER), Peking University, Beijing, China

79.9
79Channing Arndt

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

80.24
80Christopher Adam

80.34
81Axel Dreher

Alfred-Weber-Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

81.03
82Mwangi Samson Kimenyi †

81.35
83Richard Akresh

Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA)

82.44
84Servaas van der Berg

Department of Economics, Fakulteit Ekonomiese en Bestuurswetenskappe, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa

83.75
85Pedro C. Vicente

School of Business and Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

83.98
86Leonce Ndikumana

Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts (USA)
Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts (USA)

85.48
87Paul Mosley

Department of Economics, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

85.53
88Quamrul H. Ashraf

Economics Department, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts (USA)

85.68
89Agnes Reynes Quisumbing

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

85.72
90Martin Ravallion

Economics Department, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

86.13

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