Pim de Zwart

Pim de Zwart is Assistant Professor in Economic and Environmental History at Wageningen University and a Research Affiliate of CEPR. His research deals with the consequences of international trade for the distribution of income and well-being in developing countries in the colonial era. From 2018 to 2022 he was the lead investigator of a research project funded by the Netherlands Research Council (NWO) entitled “Unfair Trade? Globalization, Institutions and Inequality in Southeast Asia, 1830-1940” in which the inequality effects of trade in Southeast Asia are examined. He is author of the books The Colonial Origins of the Great Divergence (Brill 2016) and (with Jan Luiten van Zanden) and The Origins of Globalization (Cambridge University Press 2018). He has published many articles on trade and living standards in South and Southeast Asia. More info, data and articles on pimdezwart.com