dr. G.J. (Gaaitzen) de Vries

Current key project involvement:

CEPR Structural Change and Economic Growth (CEPR-STEG).
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 agriculture to non-traded services. For these countries, many questions and challenges loom.
Theme Leader ‘Data, Measurement, and Conceptual Framing’