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Kunal Sen
UNU-WIDER
Kunal Sen is a leading international expert on the political economy of growth and development with over three decades of experience in academic and applied development economics research. Since 2019 he is the Director of UNU-WIDER. He is also a professor of development economics at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester. In addition to his work as a professor of development economics, Kunal Sen has been the Joint Research Director of the Effective States and Inclusive Development (ESID) research centre, and a Research Fellow at the Institute for Labor Economics in Bonn. He has also served in advisory roles with national governments and bilateral and multilateral development agencies, including the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). He has been awarded the Sanjaya Lall Prize in 2006 and Dudley Seers Prize in 2003 for his publications.
MORE ABOUT KUNAL SEN >Nov 2, 2022
Maria C. Lo Bue, Tu Thi Ngoc Le, Manuel Santos Silva, Kunal Sen
Gender and vulnerable employment in the developing world: Evidence from global microdata
This paper investigates gender inequality in vulnerable employment: forms of employment typically featuring high precariousness, inadequate earnings, and lack of decent working conditions. Using a large collection of harmonized household surveys from developing countries, we measure long-term trends...
Oct 2, 2021
Antonio Savoia, Kunal Sen
The political economy of the resource curse: A development perspective
This article reviews the recent literature on the developmental effects of resource abundance, assessing likely effects and channels with respect to key development outcomes. To date, this area has received less analysis, al
though it is relevant to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goa...
Jan 1, 2017
Kunal Sen
What Explains the Job Creating Potential of Industrialisation in the Developing World?
This paper examines why job creation in the manufacturing sector has differed widely across developing countries, using a modified Lewis model that captures the scale, composition and labour intensity effects of industrialisation on job creation. We show that while the scale effect has been mostly p...
Jan 1, 2016
Rajesh SN Raj, Kunal Sen
Moving out of the bottom of the economy? Constraints to firm transition in the Indian informal manufacturing sector
The predominant type of firms in developing countries is small family firms and the self-employed in the informal sector. Very few family firms make the transition to larger firms employing non-family labour. In this paper, we examine the reasons for the low presence of firms employing non-family la...
Jan 1, 2016
KUNAL SEN, CHAITALI SINHA
The location choice of US foreign direct investment: how do institutions matter?
We look at the institutional determinants of both within- and across-country variations in US foreign direct investment (FDI) flows over time. The strength of our approach is that in contrast to the previous work that has focused on average FDI flows across countries, we are able to explain both the...
