GGDC Conference moved to 16-18 June 2021
| Date: | 10 April 2020 |
Groningen co-leads major international project on Structural Change and Economic Growth
| Date: | 04 March 2020 |
For low-income countries to develop, their economies need to transform from rural and agricultural to urban and industrialised. In many sub-Saharan countries, urbanization to date has outpaced industrialization and structural change has largely been from...
Obituary Adam (Eddy) Szirmai
| Date: | 15 January 2020 |
It is with great sadness that we received news on the passing away of our good friend and colleague Eddy (Adam) Szirmai. Eddy was one the co-founders of the GGDC in 1994. He has been crucial in bringing together a group of dedicated scholars on the topic...
Call for Papers – GGDC Conference 2020
| Date: | 21 November 2019 |
The GGDC organizes a conference on June 15–17 2020 in Groningen, on the themes central to GGDC, namely long-run economic development, trade and technology. The conference will feature keynote speeches by Carol Graham (Brookings, Maryland), Branko Milanovic...
Branko Milanovic new Maddison Chair
| Date: | 14 November 2019 |
Branko Milanovic has been appointed as the third holder of the Maddison Chair. In this role, he will be affiliated with the University of Groningen and regularly visit for research and teaching activities.
UNU WIDER grant and research cooperation
| Date: | 09 November 2019 |
A team of researchers at FEB’s Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) received US$223k from UNU WIDER for a multi-year research project on structural change in developing countries. The United Nations University World Institute for Development...
Seminar on regional value chains at ESCoE
| Date: | 06 June 2019 |
On June 4, Bart Los gave a seminar at the London office of the Office for National Statistics. It was a seminar in the series organized by the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence, an initiative to which Marcel Timmer and Bart contributed. Bart's talk...
Patterns of vertical specialisation
| Date: | 05 June 2019 |
In a recently published paper in the Review of World Economics, Stefan Pahl and Marcel Timmer document a new set of stylized facts on vertical specialisation since 1970. They construct new data to estimate the domestic value-added content in exports (VAX-D...
Marcel Timmer to be appointed to the board of the CPB
| Date: | 15 April 2019 |
Marcel Timmer, director of the Groningen Growth and Development Centre will be appointed as one of the three board members of the Netherlands Bureau of Economic Policy Analysis, CPB, starting September 1, 2019. In this position, he will jointly lead the...