Richard H. Sabot

John J. Gibson Professor of Economics

Chair of the Center for Development Economics

Education

D.Phil, Oxford University, 1973

B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1966

Fields

Development Economics, Labor Economics, Economics of Education

Selected Work Experience

1. Economic Advisor to the Executive Vice President
   Inter-American Development Bank, 1994 - present
2. Senior Research Fellow
   Policy Research Department, The World Bank, 1993 - 1994

Country Experience

Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Kenya, Korea, Pakistan, Portugal, Romania, Tanzania, Thailand

Publications and Working Papers

• Richard Sabot, "Inequality, Exports and Human Capital in East Asia: Lessons for Latin America," (with N. Birdsall) in Redefining the State in Latin America, edited by Colin Bradford Jr., OECD Development Centre and Inter-American Development Bank, Paris, March, 1994.
• __________, The East Asian Miracle: Economic Growth and Public Policy, (with N. Birdsall, M. Corden, H. Pack, J. Page, and J. Stiglitz) Oxford University Press (for The World Bank), 1993.
• __________, co-editor, Unfair Advantage: Labor Market Discrimination in Developing Countries, (with Nancy Birdsall) The World Bank, 1991.
• __________, "Public Sector Employment, Rent Seeking and Economic Growth," (with A.Gelb and J. Knight) Economic Journal, 1991.
• __________, "Grade Inflation and Course Choice," (with J. Wakeman-Linn) Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1991.
• __________, Education, Productivity and Inequality, (with J. Knight) Oxford University Press, 1990.
• __________, "Human Capital Accumulation in Post Green Revolution Rural Pakistan: Some Preliminary Results," Pakistan Development Review, 1990.

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