April 3, 2022
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Yale Daily News covers Leonard Wantchekon's week at Yale, hosted by EGC
Economist and former Yale professor Leonard Wantchekon returned to the University to deliver the Economic Growth Center’s 31st Annual Kuznets Memorial Lecture on economic development.
by Andrik Garcia Higareda
In the 31st Annual Kuznets Lecture, former Yale professor Leonard Wantchekon explored the political mechanisms behind developmental economics.
The lecture, hosted by the Yale Economic Growth Center, is named after Nobel laureate Simon Kuznets, who established the Economic Growth Center, and it features economists who contribute to the field of economic development. Wantchekon, who is currently a professor at Princeton, discussed the removal of political barriers to developmental policy implementation in his lecture.