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Willy van Ryckeghem (also spelled as Willy van Rijckeghem) is a Belgian economist residing in Brazil and specializing in Latin America. He was Professor of Economics at the Free University of Brussels until 1982, after which he joined the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington DC as Chief of its Country Studies Division. In this capacity, he was responsible for several of the Bank's annual Econmic and Social Progress Reposts, in particular for the 1985 report on the Latin American Foreign Debt Crisis, which he presented at the LASA meetings the same year. He headed economic missions to almost every Bank member country in Latin America and the Caribbean. He was a member of the Harvard Development Advisory Team at CONADE in Argentina in 1964-65, where he developed a stabilization model for an inflationary economy. He was also a member of the so-called Berkeley Group at the Ministry of Planning in Brazil in 1966-67, where he developed the country's first input-output table, which provided the basis for a multisectoral planning model.He advised the Planning Board of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico where he constructed an econometric model of wage formation in a dual economy. After his retirement from the IDB, he produced two reports on Lessons learned from Lending to Argentina and Uruguay.

RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS

Stabilization Policies in an Inflationary Economy-The Case of Argentina(with G. Maynard) in: Gustav F. Papanek, editor Development Policy-Theory and Practice Harvard University Press, 1968.An Intersectoral Consistency Model for Economic Planning in Brazil in: Howard S. Ellis "The Economy of Brazil" University of California Press, 1969.A World of Inflation (with G. Maynard) Batsford, London 1976.The Development of Latin America - A Long-Term View in Global Change and Transformation-Economic Essays in honor of Karsten Laursen Copenhagen 1996.

SOURCES

Manuel Fernández López : La Ciencia Económica Argentina en el Siglo XXJuan Carlos de Pablo: The Argentine Experience 1967-1970 Journal of Development Economics Vol. 1, Issue 3, Dec. 1974IPEA-Instituto de Planejamento Econômico e Social  Literatura Econômica Rio de Janeiro, setembro de 1989.