Robin Burgess is Professor of Economics, Co-Founder and Director of the International Growth Centre and Director of the Economics of Environment and Energy Research Programme, all at the LSE. He also serves as the current President of BREAD , Co-Director of the Coase Project, on the Editorial Board of VoxDev, on the Board of CEGA and is an Affiliate of J-PAL and Y-RISE, a
Research Fellow in CEPR and a Fellow of the British Academy. His main interests are in the areas of environmental economics, development economics and political economy and he is currently working in Bangladesh, Brazil, Kenya, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Pakistan, South Korea and Uganda.
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Why people stay poor
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- Poverty and Income Inequality
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Bureaucracy and development
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- Institutions and economics
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Why home bias can decrease civil service performance: Evidence from India
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- Politics and economics