Manoel Bittencourt is an extraordinary professor of economics at the university of Pretoria. He has also been a visiting scholar at the IZA Institute of Labor in Bonn and at the universities of Goettingen, Stellenbosch, Heidelberg, Oxford and Minnesota.

Manoel is a British/Brazilian economist whose areas of research are growth and development economics. He focuses on the role of political-regime characteristics on government size, macroeconomic performance and public goods provision, and in the determinants of democracy. He has also studied the determinants of fertility rates within unified growth theory. His papers have appeared in journals such as Journal of Banking and Finance, Economic Modelling, Economic Systems, Economics of Governance, Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, Journal of Economic Policy Reform, Journal of Policy Modeling, and in the Oxford Handbook of the South African Economy. 

Manoel has been an associate editor of the South African Journal of Economics and of the Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, and also a member of the council of the Economic Society of South Africa.

Manoel holds a Dip in Economics from the university of Warwick, and a MSc and PhD in Economics from the university of Bristol. 

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