Prof. dr. Adam Szirmai (Eddy) Professor in Governance, Policy Analysis and Development Economics Room: 1.047

Adam Szirmai (Eddy) is Professor of Development Economics at the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance of Maastricht University and Professorial Fellow at UNU-MERIT.

His research focuses on international comparisons of growth and productivity in manufacturing in developing countries. He has been involved in research projects in manufacturing in Indonesia, China, South Korea, Tanzania, Zambia, South Africa and Japan. A second theme of his research concerns the relationships between innovation, technological change and (productivity) performance in specified sectors of manufacturing in developing countries. His research has a strong emphasis on empirical measurement of levels and trends in economic performance. A third area of interest is that of the determinants of long-run growth and stagnation in developing countries.

In 2001, Palgrave Press published his volume on Tanzanian Industrialisation, co-edited with Paul Lapperre entitled The Industrial Experience of Tanzania. His textbook on development studies The Dynamics of Socio-economic Development. was published by Cambridge University Press in 2005. Accompanying this textbook a website has been developed for students, with empirical data on developing countries: http://www.dynamicsofdevelopment.com.

Eddy Szirmai is engaged in ongoing research on changes in the global structure of manufacturing. This research focuses on long-run changes in the structure and location of manufacturing activities and the emergence of manufacturing in developing countries in the period 1950-2000.

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