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Professor Kym Anderson Subsidies and Trade Barriers
Professor Jere Behrman Malnutrition and Hunger
Senior Fellow, Dr. William R. Cline Climate Change
Professor Paul Collier Conflicts
Professor Barry Eichengreen Financial Instability
Professor Frank Rijsberman Sanitation and Water
Professor Phillip L. Martin Population: Migration
Professor Anne Mills Communicable Diseases
Lecturer, Dr. Lant Pritchett Education
Professor Susan Rose-Ackerman Government and Corruption

 

 

Kym Anderson
Subsidies and Trade Barriers

Professor, Centre for International Economic Studies, University of Adelaide
PhD Economics, Stanford University

Research areas
Microeconomics, international trade, agricultural economics and development economics.

Selected publications
Anderson, K. and T. Josling, "The WTO and Agriculture", (a two volume set, for the series of readings on Critical Perspectives on the World Trading System), London: Edward Elgar, 2004 (forthcoming).
Anderson, K. (ed.), "The World's Wine Markets: Globalization at Work", London: Edward Elgar, 2004 (forthcoming).
Anderson, K., "Measuring Effects of Trade Policy Distortions: How Far Have We Come?" The World Economy 26(4): 413-40, April 2003.
Anderson, K. and A. Strutt, "Will Trade Liberalization Harm the Environment? The Case of Indonesia to 2020", Environmental and Resource Economics 17(3): 203-32, November 2000.
Anderson, K. and W. McKibbin, "Reducing Coal Subsidies and Trade Barriers: Their Contribution to Greenhouse Gas Abatement", Environment and Development Economics 5(4): 457-81, October 2000.

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Jere Behrman
with Harold Alderman (World Bank) and John Hoddinott (IFPRI)
Malnutrition and Hunger

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor in Economics & Director, Population Studies Center University of Pennsylvania, PhD in economics, MIT (1966), Fulbright 40th Anniversary Distinguished Fellow (1987), Fellow of Econometric Society (1980-), Guggenheim Foundation Faculty Fellow (1979-1980).

Research areas
Health, nutrition and education; family and household processes and distribution of resources within and across generations; labor markets; policy and project evaluation in the social sector.

Selected publications
Behrman, J. and M. Rosenzweig, “Returns to Birthweight,” Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming 2004).
Behrman, J. and M. Rosenzweig, “Does Increasing Women's Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation?” American Economic Review 92:1(2002).
Behrman, J., A. Foster, M. Rosenzweig and P. Vashishta, “Women's Schooling, Home Teaching, and Economic Growth,” Journal of Political Economy 107:4 (1999).
Behrman, J. and T. N. Srinivasan, eds., Handbook of Development Economics, Volumes 3A and 3B, Amsterdam:  North-Holland Publishing Co., 1995.
Behrman, J., M. Rosenzweig and P. Taubman, "Endowments and the Allocation of Schooling in the Family and in the Marriage Market: The Twins Experiment," Journal of Political Economy 102:6 (1994).

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Susan Rose-Ackerman
Governance and Corruption

Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence
Yale University, Law School and Department of Political Science, PhD in economics, Yale University (1970) and Guggenheim Fellow (1991-1992).

Research areas
Administrative law, law and economics, corruption, regulation and political economy, social choice, comparative administrative law, and law and economic development.

Selected publications
Rose-Ackerman, S., "Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences and Reform", 1999.
Rose-Ackerman, S., "Controlling Environmental Policy: The Limits of Public Law in Germany and the United States", 1995.
Rose-Ackerman, S., "Rethinking the Progressive Agenda: The Reform of the American Regulatory State", 1992.
Rose-Ackerman, S., "Corruption: A Study in Political Economy", 1978.

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William R. Cline
Climate Change

Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics and the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC
PhD in economics, Yale University (1969)

Research areas
Capital flows, debt and debt relief, economic growth, financial crises, foreign direct investment, global warming, international finance, macroeconomic policy, poverty, trade policy and agreements, IMF, World Bank, WTO.

Selected publications
Cline, W.R., "The Economics of Global Warming", 1992.
Cline, W.R., "International Economic Policy in the 1990s", 1994.
Cline, W.R., "Trade and Income Distribution", 1997.
Cline, W.R., "An Index of Industrial Country Trade Policy toward Developing Countries", CGD Working Paper #14 2002.

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Paul Collier
Conflicts

Professor and Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford University
PhD in economics

Research areas
Within macroeconomics: external shocks, exchange rate and trade policies. Within microeconomics: labour and financial markets, and rural development. Within political economy: the process of policy reform and "restraining the state". African economies, especially in the area of open economy macroeconomics. Currently researching the transition from civil war.

Selected publications
Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy, Oxford University Press, 2003 Collier, Paul, "Rebellion as a quasi-criminal activity", Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2000. Bigombe, B., Paul Collier and N. Sambanis, "Policies for building post-conflict peace", Journal of African Economies, 2000.
Explaining African Economic Performance', (with J.W. Gunning), Journal of Economic Literature, 1999
Appleton, Simon, Paul Collier and John Mackinnon, "Gender, poverty and economic reform in Africa", in Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa, ed. A. Ali and E. Thorbecke, forthcoming 1999.

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Barry Eichengreen
Financial Instability

The George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science
University of California, Berkeley
PhD in economics, Yale University (1979)

Research areas
The history and current operation of the international monetary and financial system.

Selected publications
Eichengreen, B., "Capital Flows and Crises", MIT Press, 2003.
Eichengreen, B. and Leblang, D., "Capital Account Liberalization and Growth: Was Mr. Mahathir Right?", a revised version appears in The International Journal of Finance and Economics (2003).
Eichengreen, B., "Financial Crises and What to Do About Them", Oxford University Press, 2002.
Eichengreen, B., "An Independent and Accountable IMF" (with Jose De Gregorio, Takatoshi Ito and Charles Wyplosz), Geneva Report on the World Economy 1k, London: CEPR, 1999.

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Frank Rijsberman
Sanitation and Water

Director General, International Water Management Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Professor at UNESCO-IHE, International Institute for Water Education (Delft, the Netherlands) and Wageningen University and Research (Wageningen, the Netherlands).
PhD in Water Resources Planning and Management from Colorado State University, USA (1987).

Research areas
Natural resources management research and consulting, specifically for fresh water resources, coastal zones, soil erosion, environmental management and climate change / sea level rise.

Selected Publications
Rijsberman, F. R. 2003. Can development of water resources reduce poverty? Water Policy, 5(5-6):399-412.
Rijsberman, F. R. and A. Mohammed, 2003. Water, food and environment: Conflict or dialogue? Water Science and Technology, 47(6):53-62.
Rijsberman, F.R. 2002. Storing Water. New World Water 2002. World Water Council, Marseille, pp. 80-84.
Rijsberman, F.R. and D.J. Molden. 2001. Balancing Water Uses: Water for Food and Water for Nature. Thematic Background Papers, International Conference on Freshwater, Bonn, 3-7 December. Pp. 43-56.
Rijsberman, F.R. ed. 2001. 2nd World Water Forum: Session Reports. Water Policy. Supplement Volume 3. 213 p.
HRH The Prince of Orange and F.R. Rijsberman. 2000. Summary report of the 2nd World Water Forum: From Vision to Action. Water Policy 2(6)387-396.
Cosgrove, W.J. and F.R. Rijsberman. 2000. World Water Vision: Making Water Everybody's Business. Earthscan, London. 108 p.
Gallopin, G. and F.R. Rijsberman. 2000. Three Global Water Scenarios. International Journal of Water. 1(1):16-40.

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Philip L. Martin
Population: Migration

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