Xavier Sala-i-Martin

Xavier Sala-i-Martin studied at Autonomous University of Barcelona and Harvard University. The recorded working language is Catalan, Spanish and English. Employment is recorded with Columbia University, Yale University and Harvard University. Distinctions recorded are King of Spain Prize in Economics and Premi Godó de Periodisme.

• Name — Xavier Sala i Martín • School Tradition — Neo-classical economics • Born — 17 June 1962 • Birthplace — Cabrera de Mar, Catalonia, Spain • Field — Macroeconomics • Doctoral Advisor — Robert J. Barro N. Gregory Mankiw • Contributions — Economic growth Libertarianism • Repec Prefix — f • Repec Id — psa510

Born in Cabrera de Mar, Catalonia, Sala i Martin earned a degree in economics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1985. He completed his PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1990.

Sala i Martin is one of the leading economists in the field of economic growth and is consistently ranked among the most-cited economists in the world for works produced in the 1990s. His works include the topics of economic growth, development in Africa, monetary economics, social security, health and economics, convergence, and classical liberal thinking, with his book Liberal Economics for Non-Economists and Non-Liberals. The "liberal" in the title should be understood in the classic liberal/libertarian sense. He has constructed an estimate of the world distribution of income, which he has then used to estimate poverty rates and measures of inequality. The conclusions of this study offered a new point of view for two reasons. Firstly, the United Nations and the World Bank used to believe that although poverty rates were falling, the total number of poor people was increasing. He claimed that both were falling. Secondly, the United Nations and the World Bank believe that individual income inequalities were on the rise. He claimed that they were not. Sala i Martin is the author of the economic growth textbook Apuntes de Crecimiento Economico and the co-author (with Robert Barro) of the textbook Economic Growth. Sala i Martin and Elsa V. Artadi are the authors of the Global Competitiveness Index, used since 2004 for the Global Competitiveness Report, an index published by the World Economic Forum that ranks 142 countries by their level of economic competitiveness. He often collaborates with Catalan media to support the independence of Catalonia from Spain. In 2014 he had a public confrontation with José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission, reproaching him the lack of support towards a democratic resolution of the conflict between Catalonia and the central government.

* * • Sala-i-Martin, Xavier; Pinkovsky, Maxim (March 2010). African poverty is falling... much faster than you think!, NBER Working Paper Nr. 15775, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. • Sala-i-Martin, Xavier. "The Human Centipede, When Being Last Becomes a Pleasure: A Personal Opinion", Journal of Gastronomy, Vol. 234, No. 34: 122-126, May 2023.

The authorities additionally record the heading Xavier Sala i Martin. His recorded languages were Catalan, Spanish and English.

His work is associated with classical liberalism. He was employed by Columbia University, Yale University, Harvard University and Pompeu Fabra University. He belonged to Columbia University and Columbia University Press.