# Prof. Michael Spence's research on Brazil's economic growth is highlighted

1 Faculty News September 26, 2014 ![Huffington Post logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/huffpost192x144.jpg?itok=sF2Y0c9v)>

Excerpt from [The Huffington Post](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/uri-dadush/brazils-economic-future_b_5888276.html) -- "In 2008 the Growth Commission--a group of prominent economists chaired by Nobel Prize winner [Michael Spence](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/a-michael-spence)--included Brazil in a group of just thirteen countries that stood out by achieving very high growth over a 30-year period."

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