People

Jesus Felipe is a Research Scholar at the Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. He has been Advisor in the Asian Development Bank’s Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department since 2012. Between 2007 and 2011, he was Principal Economist and Lead Economist in the Central and West Asia Department; and previously, he held different positions in the Economics and Research Department. He has been with ADB since 1996, and he is the Managing Editor of the Asian Development Review. He has also held academic positions with the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Jesus holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests spread across areas such as long-run growth in Asia, the dynamics of structural transformation, industrial policy, inclusive growth and full employment, the impact of technology on employment, productivity, technological progress, the functional distribution of income, business cycles, and the path of profit rates. He has published extensively in academic journals on different aspects of Asia’s development, productivity and structural transformation; as well as books on labor markets, structural transformation, industrial policy and the foundations of the aggregate production function.