Education

B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1966

Fields

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

Publications and Working Papers

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

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