Ethos Issue 4, Apr 2008

The Challenge of Growth
Interview with Paul Romer

Paul Romer is a senior fellow at the Stanford Center for International Development (SCID) and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR). At SCID and SIEPR, Professor Romer is working on policies that could circumvent the political and institutional roadblocks that throttle catch-up growth in some of the world’s poorest countries. For being the primary developer of New Growth Theory, Professor Romer was named one of America's 25 most influential people by TIME magazine (1997), and elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2000). He taught economics at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Chicago, and the University of Rochester. In Singapore as part of the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Eminent Visitor Programme, Professor Romer was interviewed by Donald Low, Associate Fellow of the Centre for Governance and Leadership, Civil Service College on 25 January 2008.

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