RF Berlin Talks: Project Leader Sascha Becker on Understanding Regional Inequalities: Technology, Education and Policies for Levelling Up
Project Leader Sascha Becker is a professor of economics and Xiaokai Yang Chair of Business and Economics at Monash University, Melbourne and part-time professor at the University of Warwick in England. In this podcast, Sascha discusses project at RFBerlin, which aims to unravel the historic roots of regional disparities, tracing economic development over 150 years in Germany. To find out how this fascinating study is carried out and its implications, join us in this episode.
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