Bela Balassa

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Bela Balassa was a Hungarian-born economist best known for his work on development economics and international trade, including the Balassa–Samuelson effect and influential analyses of trade liberalization and economic integration.

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instanceOf economist
person
academicDiscipline development studies
international economics
coAuthor Paul Samuelson NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship Hungary
dateOfBirth 1928-01-05
dateOfDeath 1991-05-10
educatedAt Budapest University of Economics NERFINISHED
Yale University
employer Johns Hopkins University NERFINISHED
World Bank NERFINISHED
familyName Balassa NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork comparative advantage
development economics
economic integration
economics
international trade
gender male
givenName Bela NERFINISHED
influenced policy debates on trade liberalization
research on purchasing power parity
studies of regional trade agreements
knownFor Balassa–Samuelson effect NERFINISHED
analysis of trade liberalization
revealed comparative advantage
studies of economic integration
languageOfWorkOrName English
Hungarian
memberOf World Bank research staff
notableConcept Balassa index of revealed comparative advantage NERFINISHED
notableWork “Development Strategies in Semi-Industrial Economies” NERFINISHED
“Economic Development and Integration” NERFINISHED
“The Structure of Protection in Developing Countries” NERFINISHED
“The Theory of Economic Integration” NERFINISHED
“Trade Liberalisation and Revealed Comparative Advantage” NERFINISHED
occupation World Bank economist
professor
placeOfBirth Budapest
researchInterest exchange rates
export promotion
industrialization in developing countries
price levels and productivity
regional integration
trade policy
workLocation Washington, D.C.

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T N Srinivasan coAuthor Bela Balassa
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