Jean-Louis Arcand | |
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| Born | 1964 (age 59–60) |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Academic career | |
| Field | Development economics, Impact Evaluation, Microeconomics, Rural Development |
| Institution | Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva, Centre for Finance and Development |
| Alma mater | MIT |
| Influences | Amartya Sen, Ricardo Hausmann, James Heckman, Jerry Hausman |
| Contributions | Too Much Finance |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Jean-Louis Arcand (born 1964) is a Canadian economist born in Cameroon. He is a professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, where he also head of the PhD Development Economics programme. Arcand is also the head of the Department of Economics at the Graduate Institute. He is president of the Global Development Network, a founding fellow of the European Union Development Network and senior fellow at the Fondation pour les études et recherches en développement international.