Piergiuseppe Fortunato

Piergiuseppe Fortunato is a Senior Economist at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), where he leads work on global value chains, economic integration, and industrial policy. He is also an external professor of political economy at the Université de Neuchâtel. He has published widely on development and globalization and collaborates with governments across Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

How Right and Left-Wing Populists Impact Government Spending

Piergiuseppe Fortunato, Tanmay Singh, and Marco Pecoraro research the behavior of populist leaders and parties around the world and how their policies influence subsequent government spending. Their research shows that populists from either side of the ideological spectrum have very little in common in terms of policy despite similar anti-elite rhetoric.

How Culture and Political Ideology Influence Vaccine Uptake

Research has shown that political ideology and partisans’ underlying core values correspond to preferences for different goods and services in the United States, including...

The Unequal Toll of Covid-19

A pandemic is by definition universal but while it is true that the Covid-19 outbreak has affected everyone, it has not done so equally....

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