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Research 

Publications

“The Occupation Content of Trade” (with Marcel Timmer, Gaaitzen de Vries, & Xianjia Ye), World Bank Economic Review , lhae051, forthcoming.

• Presented at (selected): Harvard Growth Lab seminar (2023), World Bank ‘Leveraging trade for more and better job opportunities in developing countries’ workshop, ICDE in Paris, AEDC in Tokyo, ETSG in Groningen, Conference ‘Economics of Global Interactions’ in Bari (2022)

• Featured on the World Bank’s ‘The Trade Post’ and ‘Let’s Talk Development’ blogs, on the Faculty of Economics and Business blog, and UNIDO’s Industrial Analytics Platform

“A Manufacturing (Re)Naissance? Industrialization in the Developing World” (with Emmanuel Mensah, Kunal Sen, & Gaaitzen de Vries), IMF Economic Review,  71, 2023, 439-473.

• Presented at: World Bank/IZA/UNU-WIDER Jobs and Development Conference, CEPR STEG Annual Conference, IARIW 36th Annual Conference, SOM PhD Conference (all 2021)

• Featured in an editorial in The Economist, in The World Bank’s EAP Economic Update 2023, by D. Rodrik on Project Syndicate, by X. Diao, M. Ellis, M. McMillan, & D. Rodrik on VoxEU and UNIDO as well as in own pieces for The Conversation and UNIDO’s Industrial Analytics Platform

Working papers

"Structural Change in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Open Economy Perspective“ (with Gaaitzen de Vries, Emmanuel Mensah, Yabo Vidogbena, & Kei-Mu Yi), Journal of International Economics, revise & resubmit.

• Presented at: CEPR STEG Annual Conference (2025), World Bank and Journal of International Economics 'Trade and Uneven Development Conference', Economic Development and Structural Change Conference in Manchester, GGDC seminar (2024)

“Linking Trade to Jobs, Incomes, and Activities: New Stylized Facts for Low- and Middle-Income Countries” (with Deborah Winkler, Luis Aguilar Luna, & Maryla Maliszewska), World Bank Policy Research Working Paper  No. 10635. Under review.

"Bridging the Gap: Revenue Mobilization in South Asia" (with Franziska Ohnsorge, Gabriel Tourek, & Zoe Xie), World Bank Policy Research Working Paper  No. 11104.

“The Economic Transformation Database (ETD): Content, Sources, and Methods” (with Gaaitzen de Vries, Linda Arfelt, Thea Drees, Mareike Godemann, Calumn Hamilton, Bente Jessen-Thiesen, Ahmet Kaya, Emmanuel Mensah, & Jop Woltjer), WIDER Technical Note 2021/2.

• UNU-WIDER funded research project

• Presented at: UNU-WIDER Annual Conference (2021), UNU-WIDER virtual seminar (2020)

“Industrialization and Global Value Chain Participation: The Importance of an Enabling Environment”, mimeo.

• Presented at: ETSG in Ghent, UNIDO Conference on ‘Sustainability in Global Value Chains’ (both 2021), FIW International Economics Conference, SOM PhD Conference (both 2022), GGDC PhD seminar (2023)

Policy reports

“South Asia Development Update: Jobs, AI, and Trade”, World Bank, October 2025 – team member and co-author of chapter 3, including box 3.1 (labor and trade reforms).

• Presented at: Notre Dame University Bangladesh, FLAME University in Pune, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai School of Economics and Public Policy (all 2025).

“From Risk to Resilience: Helping People and Firms Adapt in South Asia”, Megan Lang, Jonah Rexer, Siddharth Sharma, & Margaret Triyana, World Bank, 2025 – co-author of deep dive 2 (adaptation financing).

"South Asia Development Update: Taxing Times", World Bank, April 2025 – team member and co-author of box 1.1 (migration) and chapter 2 (revenues), featured on the World Bank’s Let’s Talk Development blog. 

“South Asia Development Update: Women, Jobs, and Growth”, World Bank, October 2024 – team member and co-author of box 1.1 (geoeconomic fragmentation), featured on the World Bank's End Poverty in South Asia blog.

“Leveraging Trade for More and Better Jobs”, Maryla Maliszewska and Deborah Winkler, World Bank, 2024 – team member and contributor to the Activities in Exports Dashboard.