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Dany Bahar is an Israeli-Venezuelan economist and academic. He is an associate professor of practice of international and public affairs at Brown University and an associate at the Harvard Center for International Growth.[1] Bahar is also a senior Fellow at Brookings Institution. He specializes in Productivity Dynamics and has worked on the intersection international economics and economic development as well as migration.[2][3]
Biography
[edit]Bahar was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He obtained a degree in Systems Engineering from Universidad Metropolitana in Caracas. He then immigrated to Israel where he served in the Israel Defense Forces.[4] He completed his M.A. in economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Bahar also holds an M.P.A. in International Development from the Harvard Kennedy School and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University.[2] He is a professor at Brown University[5][6], and serves as director of migration, displacement, and humanitarian policy at the Center for Global Development.[7]
Works
[edit]Bahar has published several reports that investigated the impact of migration on host countries.[8] In 2021, he was part of the researchers who evaluated the impact of amnesty programs for undocumented refugees.[9] He also looked into the positive link between immigration and economic growth in the United States.[10] He found that while immigrants constitute 15 percent of the American workforce, they represent a quarter of entrepreneurs and a quarter of investors in the U.S.[11]
Publications
[edit]- Bahar, Dany. (2020). “Diasporas and Economic Development: A Review of the Evidence and Policy.” Comparative Economic Studies, 62(6).
- Bahar, Dany, Rapoport, Hillel, and Choudhury, Prithwiraj. (2020). “Migrant inventors and the technological advantage of nations.” Research Policy 49(9).
- Bahar, Dany, Parsons, Christopher, and Vezina, Pierre-Louis. (2022). “Refugees, trade, and FDI.” Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 38(3), pp. 487–513.
- Bahar, Dany, Hauuptmann, Andreas, and Ozguel, Cem. (2022). “Migration and Knowledge Diffusion.” Brookings Institution.
- Bahar, Dany, Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Kim Do Yoon, and Koo, Wesley. (2023). “Innovation on Wings: Nonstop Flights and Firm Innovation in the Global Context.” Management Science 69
References
[edit]- ^ Chui, Michael;Forward Thinking on people on the move and the technological progress and productivity they bring with Dany Bahar; McKinsey Global Institute;[1]
- ^ a b "Dany Bahar"; Brookings;
- ^ "Dany Bahar"; Harvard; [growthlab.hks.harvard.edu]
- ^ “Bahar Colonomos, Dany”; Doing Zionism;
- ^ What Does The Evidence Actually Say About Sanctions on Venezuela?; Caracas Chronicles; [2]
- ^ Vance says immigrants caused a housing shortage. Economists disagree; Washington Post; [3]
- ^ CGD Welcomes Dany Bahar as New Director of Migration, Displacement, and Humanitarian Policy; Center for Global Development; [4]
- ^ Southern border numbers follow labor market: Study
- The Hill; [5]
- ^ Refugees, United Nations High Commissioner for (2022); People Forced to Flee: History, Change and Challenge; Oxon: Oxford University Press; ISBN 978-0-19-108977-0.
- ^ What everybody misses about the 'migrant crisis'; Yahoo Finance; [6]
- ^ Agrios, Ariana (2020); Immigration, Asylum, and Sanctuary Cities; New York, NY; Greenhaven Publishing LLC; ISBN 978-1-5345-0710-4