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Spence M

Department of economics and business administration, Harvard University, United States

Biography

Spence is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and Philip H. Knight Professor and dean, emeritus, at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is the chairman of an independent Commission on Growth and Development, created in 2006 and focused on growth and poverty reduction in developing countries. He earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1972, a B.A./M.A. from Oxford University in 1968 and a B.A. (summa cum laude) from Princeton University in 1966. His research area includes Economic policy in emerging markets,
Economics of information, Impact of leadership on economic growth.  

Publications

Dynamic Changes in Aromatic Hydrocarbon Associated Catabolic Gene Profiles Linked to Aerobic and Anaerobic Microcosm Studies

The biodegradation of BTEX pollutants is often facilitated by both aerobic and anaerobic bacteria in the environment. Developing strategies to enable a rapid characterisation of related microbial populations is of importance to many industries, including the petrochemical industry. Here we use a qPCR assay to show that dynamic changes in key catabo... Read More»

Flanagan PV, Kulakov LA, Kulakova AN, Spence M and Allen CCR

Research Article: Innovative Energy Policies

DOI: 10.4172/2090-5009.1000111

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