Manoel Bittencourt, a native of Porto Alegre, Brazil, studied economics at PUC, Warwick and Bristol. After serving on the faculties of the universities of Cape Town, Pretoria and the Witwatersrand he moved back to Pretoria, where he is currently Extraordinary Professor of Economics. 

Bittencourt has studied many aspects of macroeconomics and political economy, including the roles of inflation and finance on inequality and growth, the role of political-regime characteristics and ethnicity on macroeconomic performance and public goods provision, and the determinants of the democratic and fertility transitions. 

He has been a visiting scholar at Goettingen, IZA, Stellenbosch, Heidelberg, Oxford and Minnesota, and has been awarded numerous research and teaching awards from various organizations. 

His papers have appeared in journals such as Journal of Banking and Finance, Economic Modelling, Economic Systems, Economics of Governance, Economic Change and Restructuring, Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, Journal of Economic Policy Reform, Journal of Policy Modeling, South African Journal of Economics and in the Oxford Handbook of the South African Economy. He has also published articles in the Business Day, Conversation Africa, the World Financial Review, VOX.LACEA and in the CES-Ifo Forum.

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