THE AUTHOR

Denis Drechsler is a Policy Analyst at the OECD Development Centre. He is also part of Panel Group, an international development finance company. Prior to joining the OECD, Denis worked at the World Bank, the German Parliament and the European Institute for International Economic Relations. He is the author of several articles and papers that discuss the importance of institutions for economic development. Denis completed his graduate studies in Political Science and Economics at Potsdam University, the Institute d’Etudes Politiques de Grenoble and the University of Wisconsin.

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Other Work of Denis Drechsler
 

Books and Studies 

• Informal Institutions: How Social Norms Help or Hinder Development, Development Centre Study, Paris: OECD (with J. Jütting, S. Bartsch and I. de Soysa). 
• New Actors in Health Financing: Implications for a Donor Darling, Development Centre Policy Brief No. 33, Paris: OECD (with F. Zimmermann). 

Articles in Journals 

• Measuring Gender Equality: The OECD Gender, Institutions and Development Data Base, Journal of Human Development, forthcoming, March 2008 (with J. Jütting, C. Morrisson and J. Dayton-Johnson). 
• Economic Development Before the Law, Project Syndicate, March 2007 (with J. Jütting). 
• Different Countries, Different Needs: The Role of Private Health Insurance in Developing Countries, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol. 32, Number 3, pages 497-534 (with J. Jütting). 

Working Papers and Policy Insights 

• Facing Complexity in Development Finance: Challenges for a Donor Darling, Development Centre Policy Insight No. 40, Paris: OECD (with F. Zimmermann). 
• The Importance of Traditions for Development: Why Sometimes Good Enough Is Enough, Development Centre Policy Insight No. 34, Paris: OECD (with J. Jütting and I. de Soysa). 
• Gender, Institutions and Development: Better Data, Better Policies, Poverty In Focus, No. 13, January 2008, UNDP (with J. Jütting and C. Lindberg). 
• Measuring Gender (In)Equality: Introducing the Gender, Institutions and Development Data Base, Development Centre Working Paper No. 247, Paris: OECD (with J. Jütting, C. Morrisson and J. Dayton-Johnson). 
• Making Insurance a Healthy Business, Upsides, No. 2, FMO, Netherlands (with J. Jütting). 
• Is there a role for private health insurance in developing countries? DIW Working Paper No. 517, German Institute for Economic Research (with J. Jütting). 
• Scope, Limitations, and Policy Responses (of Private Health Insurance), in: Private Voluntary Health Insurance in Development: Friend or Foe? World Bank (with J. Jütting).