Addison, Prof. Tony

Tony Addison is the chief economist and deputy director of the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) in Helsinki, Finland. Previously he was a professor of development at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom and from 2006 to 2009, executive director of the university's Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI) . He was also associate director of the Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC). His books include From Conflict to Recovery in Africa (Oxford University Press), Making Peace Work: The Challenges of Economic and Social Reconstruction (Palgrave Macmillan), and Poverty Dynamics: A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective (Oxford University Press). Addison was a lead author for The Chronic Poverty Report 2008-09: Escaping Poverty Traps.