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Ricardo Hausmann & Andres Velasco

Ricardo Hausmann, a former minister of planning of Venezuela and former chief economist at the Inter-American Development Bank, is a professor at Harvard Kennedy School and Director of the Harvard Growth Lab.

Andres Velasco, a former finance minister of Chile, is Dean of the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Copyright: Project Syndicate
 

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