Raouf Boucekkine Aix Marseille Université GREQAM 2 rue de la charité France raouf.boucekkine@univ-amu.fr Biographical Sketch: Raouf Boucekkine is professor of economics and research director at Aix-Marseille School of Economics. He has held several academic positions in Belgium, UK, Spain and France, and research directorship of the Center of Operation Research and Econometrics at Louvain. He is currently associate editor of Macroeconomic Dynamics, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Mathematical Social Sciences, Mathematical Economics Letters, Journal of Calculus of Variations, Journal of Demographic Economics and Annals of Economics and Statistics. Raouf Boucekkine has published more than 60 articles in leading journals in economic theory, in growth and development, in applied mathematics (notably optimization), and in economic and mathematical demography. Primary Research Focus : JEL Areas : O:Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth E0:Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics: General