Jan., 2008

CURRICULUM VITAE

Stephen C. Smith

 

Position: Professor of Economics and International Affairs

Director, Research Program in Poverty, Development, and Globalization

Chair, Economics Ph.D. Committee (Unit I)

The George Washington University (GWU)

 

Office Address:

Prof. Stephen C. Smith

Department of Economics,

Monroe Hall 306 (2115 G St. NW)

The George Washington University,

Washington, D.C.  20052

(tel.) 202‑994‑8086   (fax) 202‑994‑6147

 (e‑mail) ssmith@gwu.edu

Personal web page: http://home.gwu.edu/~ssmith          

Citizenship: USA

 

Home Address: 2422 Silver Fox Lane, Reston, VA 22091, USA

 

Education:

Ph.D., Economics, Cornell University, 1983

M.A., Economics, Cornell University, 1981

B.A., Liberal Arts, Goddard College, 1977

 

Selected Fellowships: Fulbright Research Scholarship, Jean Monnet Research Fellowship

 

Current Editorship:

Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

 

Selected Consultancies:

World Bank (IBRD)

International Labour Office (ILO, Geneva)

World Institute for Development Economics Research (UN‑WIDER)

Small Enterprise Assistance Fund (SEAF)

 

Selected On‑Site Country Research and Consulting Experience:

Developing:  Bangladesh, China, Ecuador, Egypt, India, Peru, Slovenia, Taiwan, Uganda

OECD: Italy, Germany, Spain

 

 

Books and Reports

 

Economic Development, 10th Edition, with Michael Todaro, Reading, MA: Addison‑Wesley and Essex, England: Pearson, 2008.  9th Edition, with Michael Todaro, 2005. Also published in New Delhi. 8th or 9th Editions additionally translated into Japanese, Indonesian and Chinese.

http://www.aw-bc.com/catalog/academic/product/0,1144,0321278887,00.html

 

NGOs and the Millennium Development Goals: Citizen Action to Reduce Poverty, co-edited with Jennifer Brinkerhoff and Hildy Teegen, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, June 2007: http://www.palgrave-usa.com/catalog/product.aspx?isbn=140397974X

 

Ending Global Poverty: A Guide to What Works, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, May 2005, http://www.palgrave-usa.com/Catalog/product.aspx?isbn=140396534X

 

Blooming Together or Wilting Alone? Organizational Comparative Advantage, Network Externalities, and Mondragon and La Lega Cooperative Networks, Paper No. 2001/27, 55 pp., World Institute of Development Economics Research (WIDER), Helsinki, July 2001, accessed at http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/publications.htm

 

Human Capital Convergence - International Evidence, with Randa Sab, IMF Working Paper 01/32, Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund, 2001, http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2001/wp0132.pdf

 

Privatization and Public‑Private Competitions: Lessons from State and Local Government, Report CRM D0000459.A2/Final, Washington, DC: Center for Naval Analyses, May 2000

 

Case Studies in Economic Development, 2d Edition, Reading, MA: Addison‑Wesley‑Longman, 1997

 

The Firm, Human Development, and Market Failure, ILO Labour Market Paper #10, Geneva: International Labour Office, 1995

 

Labour Participatory Economy, ed. with S. Mahalingham, J.E. Askildsen, and D. Vaughan‑Whitehead, Mittal, 1993

 

Labour Managed Market Economies, ed. with S. Mahalingham, J.E. Askildsen, and D. Vaughan‑Whitehead, Mittal, 1993

 

Industrial Policy in Developing Countries: Reconsidering the Real Sources of Export‑Led Growth, Economic Policy Institute, 1991

 


 

Journal Articles:

 

 

Endogenous Formation of Coops and Cooperative Leagues,” with Sumit Joshi, forthcoming Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

 

"What Factors Lead Management to Support or Oppose Employee Participation‑ with and without Works Councils?  Hypotheses and Evidence from Germany," with Uwe Jirjahn, Industrial Relations, 45, 4, 650-680, Oct. 2006

 

"Works Councils and Environmental Investment: Theory and Evidence from German Panel Data," with Jan Erik Askildsen and Uwe Jirjahn, Volume 60, Issue 3, 346-372, 2006, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

 

"Employee Participation Rights in Corporate Governance: Economic Rationale, a Test of a Leading Theory, and Some Modest Policy Proposals," Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor Managed Firms, Elsevier, 105-146, Vol. 9, 2006

 

"New Issues in Emerging Markets: Determinants, Effects, and Stock Market Performance of Initial Public Offerings in South Korea," with Hesuk Chun, Journal of Emerging Market Finance

2, 3, 253‑285, December 2003

 

"A Tale of Two Tigers: Employee Financial Participation in Korea and Taiwan," with Beom‑cheol Cin and Tzu‑Shian Han, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Sept. 2003

 

"Village Banking and Maternal and Child Health: Evidence from Ecuador and Honduras," World Development, 30, 4, 707‑723, April 2002

 

"Human Capital Convergence: A Joint Estimation Approach," with Randa Sab, IMF Staff Papers, 49, 2, 200‑211, August 2002

 

"Employee Stock Ownership and Participation in South Korea: Incidence, Productivity Effects, and Prospects," with Beom‑cheol Cin, Review of Development Economics, 6, 2, 263‑283, June 2002

 

"Investment, Exports, and Output in South Korea: A VAR Approach to Growth Empirics," with Edward Feasel and Yongbeom Kim, Review of Development Economics, 5, 3, 421‑432, October 2001

 

"Investment and Supply Effects of Industry‑Indexed Bonds: The Labor Managed Firm," with Robert Waldmann, Economic Systems, 23, 3, 245‑268, 1999

 

"Prospects for Research on Participation," Economic Analysis: Journal of Enterprise and Participation, 1, 3, 197‑202, 1998

 

"Post‑Privatization Duopolies: On Equilibria and Deterrence among Labor Managed and Conventional Firms," with Ahmed Keshk, Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor Managed Firms, Vol. 6, 163‑186, 1998

 

"Privatization Incidence, Ownership Forms, and Firm Performance: Evidence from Slovenia," with Beom‑cheol Cin and Milan Vodopivec, Journal of Comparative Economics, 25, 158‑179, 1997

 

"The Health‑Development Link: Microenterprise Development for Positive Health Outcomes," with R. Rodriguez‑Garcia, J. Macinko and B. Schwethelm, International Affairs Review, 63‑79, Spring 1996

 

"Employee Participation in China's Township and Village Enterprises," China Economic Review, 6, 1, 157‑167, 1995

 

"Firm Size and the Effect of Profit‑Sharing," with M.D. Bradley, J. Inst. Public Enterprise, 18, 1, 1‑13, 1995

 

"Innovation and Market Strategy in Italian Industrial Cooperatives: Econometric Evidence on Organizational Comparative Advantage," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 23, 3, 303‑321, 1994

 

"On the Law and Economics of Employee Ownership in Privatization in Developing and Transition Economies," Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 65, 3, 437‑468, 1994

 

"The Ownership Reform of Township Enterprise in China: From International Experience" (in Chinese), Chinese Rural Economy, 12, 56‑60, Dec. 1994

 

"The Political Economy of the Maryland Biotechnology Industrial District," with Harvey Feigenbaum, Business and the Contemporary World, 5, 105‑118, Autumn 1993

 

"Labor‑Managed Cooperatives and Private Firms in North‑Central Italy: An Empirical Comparison," with W. Bartlett, J. Cable, S. Estrin and D. Jones, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 46, 103‑118, 1992

 

"Optimal Internal Investment in a Labor‑Managed Firm with Heterogeneous Membership: An Overlapping Generations Approach," with M.H. Ye and M. Conte, Journal of Comparative Economics, 16, 479‑493, 1992

 

"The Comparative Institutions of Profit Sharing: The U.S. Computer Industry," with M.D. Bradley, Journal of Economic Issues, June 1992

 

"On the Economic Rationale for Codetermination Law," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 16, 261‑281, Dec. 1991

 

"Financial Repression and Real Output: Macroeconometric Evidence from Yugoslavia," with M.D. Bradley, China Economic Review, 2, 231‑246, 1991

 

"Allocation and Distribution in an Employee‑Owned Firm under Both Output and Labor Market Uncertainty," with M.H. Ye, Economic Analysis, 26 (2), 115‑136, 1991

 

"On the Incidence of Profit and Equity Sharing: Theory and an Application to the High Tech Sector," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 9, 45‑58, 1988

 

"On Illyrian Macroeconomics," with M. D. Bradley, Economica, 55, 249‑260, 1988

 

"Dynamic Allocation in a Labor‑Managed Firm," with M.H. Ye, Journal of Comparative Economics, 12, 204‑216, 1988

 

"Employment, Prices and Money in the Share Economy: An Alternative View," with M. D. Bradley, Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor Managed Firms, 3, 201‑208 (1988)

 

"The Behavior of Labor‑Managed Firms under Uncertainty: Product Diversification, Income Insurance and Layoff Policy," with M.H. Ye, Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 57, 65‑82, 1987

 

"Some Microeconomic Analysis of Income‑Sharing Firms," with M. D. Bradley, Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor Managed Firms, 2, 91‑111, 1987

 

"Political Behavior as an Economic Externality:  Econometric Evidence on the Spillover of Participation in U.S. Firms to Participation in Community Affairs," Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor Managed Firms, 1, 123‑136, 1985

 

"Does Employment Matter to the Labor Managed Firm?  Some Theory and an Empirical Illustration," Economic Analysis, 18, 303‑318, 1984 

 

"Multinational Corporations and the Third World: Bargaining Power and Development," Journal of International Affairs, Fall 1984

 

"The Economics of Joint Ventures in Less Developed Countries," with J. Svejnar, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 98, 149‑168, 1984

 

"The Economics of Joint Ventures in Centrally Planned and Labor‑Managed Economies," with J. Svejnar, Journal of Comparative Economics, 5, 148‑172, 1982

 

 


 

Selected Book Chapters, Policy Articles, Commentaries, and Other Publications

 

 

“Organizational Comparative Advantages of NGOs in Eradicating Extreme Poverty and Hunger: Strategy for Escape from Poverty Traps,” in NGOs and the Millennium Development Goals: Citizen Action to Reduce Poverty, Jennifer Brinkerhoff, Stephen C. Smith and Hildy Teegen, eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

 

“Beyond the 'Non': The Strategic Space for NGOs in Development,” with J. Brinkerhoff and H. Teegen, in NGOs and the Millennium Development Goals: Citizen Action to Reduce Poverty, Jennifer Brinkerhoff, Stephen C. Smith and Hildy Teegen, eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

 

“The Role of NGOs in Health, Education, Environment, and Gender: Application of the Theoretical Framework,” with J. Brinkerhoff and H. Teegen, in NGOs and the Millennium Development Goals: Citizen Action to Reduce Poverty, Jennifer Brinkerhoff, Stephen C. Smith and Hildy Teegen, eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

 

“Conclusions and Policy Implications,” with J. Brinkerhoff and H. Teegen, in NGOs and the Millennium Development Goals: Citizen Action to Reduce Poverty, Jennifer Brinkerhoff, Stephen C. Smith and Hildy Teegen, eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

 

“Protecting the Poor from Climate Change,” World Ark, November-December 2007

 

“The Millennium Development Goals and the Struggle Against Poverty Traps,” United Nations Economic and Social Council, Meeting on “Eradicating poverty and hunger – Joining forces to make it happen,” United Nations, New York, Monday, 2 April 2007,

http://www.un.org/docs/ecosoc/meetings/2007/amr2007/index.shtml

http://www.un.org/docs/ecosoc/meetings/2007/amr2007/Stephen%20Smith.pdf

 

“Special Event on Poverty Traps: Background Note,” in International Forum on the Eradication of Poverty, Report of the Meeting, New York: United Nations, 2006, pp. 44-47,

http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/poverty/PovertyForum/Documents/forum.report.pdf

 

“Poverty Traps: Why the Poor Stay Poor,” World Ark, July-August 2006

 

“Ending Extreme Poverty: Securing Human Rights Can Be Decisive” (with Tony Castleman), (in Spanish) Letras Libres, April 2006. Reprinted, in Ius Inter Gentes , a Peru legal journal

 

“Poverty Traps and Global Development,” The Globalist, Monday, May 15, 2006

http://theglobalist.com/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=5032

 

“How to Help the Poor Out of Poverty,” The Globalist, Tuesday, May 16, 2006

http://theglobalist.com/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=5041

 

“Ending Extreme Poverty: Three Innovations from Africa,” Sojourners, February 2006

 

“Has the Development Community Overinvested in Microfinance?” Global Future, Fourth Quarter (December), 2005, 20-22, also available online at http://www.globalfutureonline.org/PolicyAdvocacy/GlblFutr.nsf/currentissue/current

 

“Q & A with Stephen C. Smith,” World Ark Online, Heifer International, 2005, http://www.heifer.org/site/c.edJRKQNiFiG/b.1162061/

 

“Will the G8 Summit at Gleneagles Ultimately Help Africa?” Congressional Quarterly Researcher, 751, Sept. 2005, available at http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/

 

"Governance of Nongovernmental Organizations: A Framework and Application to Poverty Programs in East Africa," 2004, in GWU Law School Public Law Journal of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=628684

 

"Network Externalities and Co‑operative Networks: Stylized Facts and Theory," chapter 7 of Ownership and Governance of Enterprises, a UN‑WIDER volume edited by Laixiang Sun, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, pp. 181-201

 

"Network Externalities and Co‑operative Networks: A Comparative Case Study of Mondragon and La Lega With Implications for Developing and Transition Countries," chapter 8 of Ownership and Governance of Enterprises, a UN‑WIDER volume edited by Laixiang Sun, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England:  Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, pp. 202-241

 

"Globalization and Poverty Reduction in Bangladesh: Problems and Promises," Holiday (a Bangladesh economic and political weekly), Anniversary Issue, Oct. 2003, http://www.weeklyholiday.net/anni39/s1‑more.html#06

 

"Microcredit and Health Programs: To Integrate or Not to Integrate?" in Rosalia Rodriguez‑Garcia, James Macinko, and William Waters, ed., Microenterprise Development for Better Health Outcomes, (Contributions to Economics and Economic History), Westport, CT: Greenwood, 41‑50, 2001

 

"The Potential Role of Employee Stock Ownership Plans in Korean Restructuring: Lessons from Korean ESOAs, US ESOPs and other Experience," with Beomcheol Cin, International Symposium on Employee Stock Ownership Plans (KLI‑World Bank‑FIET), Seoul, Korea: KLI, pp 75‑97, 1999

 

"On the Market Failure Case for Labor Policy to Promote Human Development," in Luis Eugenio Di Marco, ed., Humanismo Economico y Tecnologia Cientifica, Bases para la refundacion del analisis economico, pp. 143‑154, Cordoba, Argentina: Atena Editorial for Ediciones Ciec, Vol. I, 1999

 

"Discussion of 'Is Employee Ownership an Unstable Form? Or a Stabilizing Force?'" in Margaret M. Blair and Thomas A. Kochan, eds., The New Relationship: Human Capital in the American Corporation, Washington: Brookings, 1999

 

"Industrial Policy and Export Success: Third World Development Strategies Reconsidered," in Robert Blecker, ed., U.S. Trade Policy and Global Growth, pp. 267‑298, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1996

 

"Privatization Incidence, Firm Performance, and Complementarities and Conflicts Between Foreign Investment, Employee and other Forms of Ownership: Slovenia" (with M. Vodopivec and B.C. Cin), in Luis Eugenio Di Marco, ed., La Economia del Orden Nuevo, Cordoba, Argentina: Atena Editorial for Ediciones Ciec, Vol. I, 365‑392, 1995

 

"Employee Participation Rights, Training, and Efficiency: Hypotheses and Evidence from Germany," (in Spanish) Ekonomiaz, 33, 3, 92-121, 1995; also available (in English) as a 1994 Economic Policy Institute Technical Paper, Washington, DC: EPI

 

"Property Rights Reform in China's Township and Village Enterprises: Implications from the Economic Theory and International Experience of Employee Ownership," (in Chinese), in Township and Village Enterprises in China: Nature, Experiences and Reforms, Zhejiang: Zhejiang Peoples' Press, 1994

 

"Employee Ownership in the Third World: The Law and Economics of a New Trend in Privatization," in Marcia Jones, ed., 12th ATWS Proceedings, Georgia Southern Univ., Publ., 284‑300, 1994

 

"On the Meaning of Development: Session Report," in R. Rodriguez‑Garcia and A. Goldman, eds., The Health‑Development Link, Washington: PAHO, pp. 105‑110, 1994

 

"Worker Participation and Workplace Public Goods: Some Theory and Attitudinal Evidence from U.S. Labor‑Managed and Codetermined Firms," in S. Mahalingham et. al., Labour Participatory Economy, New Delhi: Mittal, pp. 69‑93, 1993

 

"A Proposal for an Industry‑Performance Risk Participation Bond," with R. Waldmann, in S. Mahalingham, et.al, Labour‑Managed Market Economies, New Delhi: Mittal, pp. 3‑10, 1993

 


"Computing the Impact of Profit Sharing: Econometric Issues and Evidence from the US Computer Sector," with M.D. Bradley, VI Convegno Scentifico Annuale, Associazione Italiana per lo Studio dei Sistemi Economici Comparati, Prima Parte, 114‑137 (1989)

 

"Programs for Codetermination and Employee Stock Ownership in India," Economic and Industrial Democracy, 9, 121‑128 (1988)


 

Book Reviews

 

 

Review of Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, “Creating a World without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism,” forthcoming Stanford Social Innovation Review

 

Review of Vojmir Franicevic and Milica Uvalic, eds., "Equality, Participation, Transition," Journal of Economic Literature, 41, 1, 216‑217, March 2003

 

Review of Jeff Gates, "The Ownership Solution: Toward a Shared Capitalism for the 21st Century," Comparative Economic Studies, 42, 3, 130‑134, Fall 2000

 

Review of Debraj Ray, "Development Economics," Journal of Development Economics, 62, 1, 280‑284, June 2000

 

Review of T.M. Thomas Isaac, Richard W. Franke, and Pyaralal Raghavan, "Democracy at Work in an Indian Industrial Cooperative. The Story of Kerala Dinesh Beedi," Journal of Comparative Economics, 27, 3, 576‑579, Sept. 1999

 

Review of David I. Levine, "Reinventing the Workplace: How Business and Employees Can Both Win," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 30, 269‑272, 1996

 

Review of Anthony B. Atkinson, ed., "Alternatives to Capitalism: The Economics of Partnership. Essays in Honor of Nobel Laureate James Meade," Journal of Comparative Economics, 20, 368‑371 (1995)

 

Review of David Ellerman, "Property and Contract in Economics," Journal of Comparative Economics, 19, 463‑466 (1994)

 

Review of Michael Porter, "The Competitive Advantage of Nations," Journal of Development Economics, 36, 399‑404 (1993)

 

Review of Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel, "Looking Forward: Participatory Economics for the 21st Century," Journal of Comparative Economics, 16, 765‑773 (1992)

 

Review of Nobel Laureate James Meade, "Agathatopia: The Economics of Partnership," Journal of Comparative Economics, 16, 370‑376 (1992)

 

Review of Assar Lindbeck and Dennis J. Snower, "The Insider‑Outsider Theory of Employment and Unemployment," Economic and Industrial Democracy, 11, 582‑585 (1990)

 

Review of Isher Judge Ahluwalia, "Industrial Growth in India: Stagnation since the Mid‑Sixties," Journal of Development Economics, 28, 397‑406 (1988)


Selected Conference Participation:

 

 

ARNOVA Conference, Atlanta, GA, Nov. 2007, presented a paper

 

Symposium on New Directions for Research on Microfinance, April 20, 2007, George Washington University, served as conference co-organizer, provided symposium introduction, and served as chair

 

United Nations Economic and Social Council, Meeting on “Eradicating poverty and hunger – Joining forces to make it happen,” United Nations, New York, Monday, 2 April 2007, presented “The Millennium Development Goals and the Struggle Against Poverty Traps,”

 

Development Management Network Workshop, Annual Meeting, March 2007, Washington DC, plenary presentation

 

United Nations International Forum on the Eradication of Poverty (conference marking the end of the First UN Poverty Decade 1996-2006), New York, Nov. 15-16, 2006; served as invited session organizer and made presentation, “On Overcoming Poverty Traps,”

 

Ending Poverty 101, sponsored by United Nations Association of the Capital Area, International Affairs Society, United Nations Foundation, and ONE Campaign, Washington, October 26, 2005, served as panelist

 

Academy of International Business Annual Meetings, Quebec City, July 2005, presented a paper

 

“Ending Global Poverty: A Guide to What Works,” book launch, The World Bank InfoShop auditorium, July 8, 2005

 

International Food Policy Research Institute‑Cornell University Conference on "Threshold Effects and Non‑Linearities in Growth and Development," IFPRI, Washington DC, May 11‑13, 2005, served as session chair.

 

INGOT Roundtable on “Approaches to Effective Small and Microenterprise Support,” GWU, April 2005, served as discussant.

 

Symposium on “The Many Faces of Poverty,” Middlebury College, served as keynote speaker, March 7, 2005

 

Africa Project Conference, International Institute of Corporate Governance and Accountability, GWU Law School, Oct. 29‑30, 2004, presented a paper

 

Twelfth International IAFEP Conference, St. Mary's University, Halifax, Canada, July 8‑10, 2004, presented a paper in a plenary session, and chaired a session

 

Conference on the Role of NGOs in Achieving the Millennium Development Goals, Washington, DC, Conference Co‑coordinator, paper presenter, and session moderator, May 12‑13, 2004

 

Sloan Conference on Corporations, Markets, and the State: A Multidisciplinary Inquiry Into the Future of Modern Global Business, George Washington Univ. Law School, March 4‑6, 2004, presented a paper

 

Globalization Conference, William Patterson University/John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Oct. 2003, invited panel presentation and closing roundtable participant

 

Paving the Way Forward for Rural Finance: International Conference on Best Practice," USAID, session moderator, "Rural Finance Expansion: Experience in Commercialization," June 2003

 

Special Consultative Conference on Meeting the Challenges of Poverty and Improved Social Action in the Americas, IACD/Organization of American States, panel presentation, March 2003

 

Northeast Universities Development Conference, Williams College, Oct. 2002, presented a paper, chaired a session, and served as a discussant

 

Conference on "Charting a New Course for Africa in the 21st Century," Washington DC, April 2002, chaired a panel

 

Association for Comparative Economic Studies panel at ASSA/AEA annual meetings, Atlanta, GA, Jan. 2002, presented a paper

 

Northeast Universities Development Conference, Boston University, Sept. 2001, presented a paper and served as session chair and discussant

 

North America Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society, Univ. of Maryland, June 2001, presented a paper and chaired two sessions

 

Conference on "Property Rights Regimes, Microeconomic Incentives, and Development," World Inst. Development Economics Research (UN‑WIDER), Helsinki, April 2001, presented a paper

 

Economic Demography Workshop at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Washington, DC, March 2001, presented a paper

 

North America Winter Meetings of the Econometric Society (at ASSA conf.), New Orleans, Jan. 2001, presented a paper.

 

Northeast Universities Development Conference, Cornell Univ., Oct., 2000, presented a paper

 

Tenth International IAFEP Conference, University of Trento, Italy, July 6‑8, 2000, gave a plenary address, entitled "Is Development Participation an Alternative to Conditionality?"

 

III Encuentro Internacional de Economia (3rd International Economics Meetings), University of Cordoba, Argentina, Aug. 10‑14, 1999, presented a paper

 

Conference on Democracy, Participation, and Development, Columbia University, April 23‑24, 1999, presented a paper

 

Northeast Universities Development Conference, Yale University, Oct., 1998, presented a paper

                                                                                               

Ninth International IAFEP Conference, University of Bristol, England, June 26‑28, 1998, gave a plenary address, presented a paper, and chaired two sessions

 

Brookings‑MIT Conference on Corporations and Human Capital, MIT Endicott Conference Center, January 12‑13, 1998, served as discussant.

 

Allied Social Sciences Association annual meetings, Chicago, IL Jan. 5‑7, 1998, presented a paper on the American Economic Association panel on "Micro Development"

 

Northeast Universities Development Conference, Development Economics Center, Williams College, Oct. 24‑25, 1997, presented a paper

 

International Development Conference, Washington DC, Jan. 1997, United Nations Development Programme panel, session chair and panelist

 

NEUDC Conference, Boston University, Oct. 31‑Nov. 1, 1996, presented a paper

 

Conference on "The Health‑Development Link: Microenterprise Development for Better Health Outcomes," Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Ctr,, Italy, Oct. 1996, made two presentations

 

Eighth International IAFEP Conference, Prague, Czech Rep., Aug., 1996, presented a paper

 

Allied Social Sciences Association annual meetings, San Francisco, CA, Jan. 5‑7, 1996, presented two papers, on IRRA and ACES programs.

 

ICA Strategic Alliances Regional Conference, Miami, Dec. 6‑8, 1995, presented a paper

 

Conference on "Enterprise Restructuring and Labour Markets," ILO Torino Conference Center, May 30‑June 2, 1995, presented a paper

 

Allied Social Sciences Association annual meetings, Washington, DC, Jan. 3‑5, 1995, presented a paper and served as a discussant

 

Conference on "Social and Economic Problems of Ukraine as Transitional Society," Kiev, Dec. 1‑4, 1994, presented a paper

 

Southern Economic Association annual meetings, Orlando, Fl., Nov., 1994, presented a paper

 

Northeast Universities Development Conference, Yale University, Oct., 1994, presented a paper

 

Assoc. of Third World Studies, annual meetings, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., Oct. 5‑7, 1994, presented a paper

 

"International Symposium on Property Rights of Township and Village Enterprises," Hangzhou, China, August 6‑8, 1994, presented a paper and participated in preceding TVEs research tour

 

Seventh International IAFEP Conference, Portoroz, Slovenia, June 16‑18, 1994, presented a paper and served as a session chair

 

Conference on "Expanding Multidisciplinary Approaches in Development," George Washington Univ., April 30, 1994, conference organizer/director and discussant

 

ASSA annual meetings, Boston, MA Jan. 3‑5, 1994, presented a paper

 

Northeast Universities Development Conference, Development Economics Center, Williams College, Oct. 15‑16, 1993, presented a paper

 

Conference on Africa in a Changing World Economy, Howard University, Sept., 1992, presented a paper

 

World Bank Symposium on the International Experience with Employee Ownership, Washington, DC, April 13, 1992, presented a paper

 

Annual Conference of the Profit Sharing Council of America, San Antonio, TX, Oct. 17‑19, 1991, served as keynote speaker

 

Sixth International IAFEP Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, August 8‑11, 1991, presented two papers and served as a session chair

 

ASSA/CES annual meetings, Wash., DC, Dec. 28‑30, 1990, presented a paper

 

"First Conference of the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies," Verona, Italy, Sept. 28‑30, 1990, presented a paper

 

"Conference on Employee Participation in Company Profits," sponsored by the European Commission, at the European University Institute, Florence, April 1990, presented a paper

 

"Symposium on European Community Institutions and NATO," sponsored by the Fulbright Commission, Luxembourg and Brussels, Feb. 11‑18, 1990, invited participant

 

South European Economic Theory Association, Annual Conference, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, October 1989, presented a paper

 

Italian Association for the Study of Comparative Economic Systems, Annual Conference, October 1989, Urbino, Italy, presented a paper and served as a discussant

 

"Global Imbalances: Alternative Perspectives on the International Economy Conference," American Univ., May 26‑28, 1989, presented a paper

 

"Northeast Universities Development Conference," Development Economics Center, Williams College, April 21‑22, 1989, presented a paper

 

"International Conference on Profits and Instability," Jerome Levy Economics Institute, Annandale‑On‑Hudson, March 17‑19, 1989, presented a paper and served as a discussant

 

ASSA/Assoc. for Comparative Econ. Studies, New York, Dec., 1988, presented a paper

 

Fifth International IAFEP Conference, Vienna, Austria, July 1988, presented a paper and served as a session chairman

 

"Symposium on Self‑Management and Participatory Decision Making," University of Aalborg, Denmark, November 1987, presented a paper

 

"Symposium on Chinese Collective Industry," World Bank, Nov. 1986, presented a paper

 

"Symposium of Profit Sharing, Worker Ownership and Participation," Cornell University, April 1986, presented two papers

 

Fourth International IAFEP Conference, Universite de Liege au Sart‑Tilman, Belgium, July 1985, presented two papers

 

"Colloquium on the Labor‑Managed Economy," Yale University, May 1985, served as discussant

 

"Hawkins Symposium on Multinational Corporations and their Host Countries," Towson State University, April 1984, presented a paper

 

"Conference on Labor Managed Firms," European University Institute, Florence, March 1984, presented a paper

 

Third International IAFEP Conference, Mexico City, August 1982, presented a paper


 

Selected Fellowships, Honors and Awards: 

 

 

Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, from 2007

 

"Higher Education for Development in Bangladesh (HEDIB): A Partnership between BRAC University & George Washington University, 2004‑2007," co‑Principal Investigator (with Jim Williams), Department of State's FY2004 Educational Partnerships Program (ECA/A/S/U‑04‑03), award received ($149,300). Grant extended through Aug. 31, 2008.

 

GW Institute for Public Policy: Policy Research Scholar Award, 2004‑2006

 

Grant through ESIA to organize conference, "The role of NGOs in achieving the International Poverty Goals," event held May 2004

 

Sloan Foundation Support for research on NGOs in Africa, through the Institute for International Corporate Governance and Accountability (IICGA) Africa Project (GW Law School)

 

Title VI in‑country travel grants, for research in East Africa and Bangladesh, funded through National Resource Centers program/ESIA, from U.S. Department of Education, 2003

 

North American Editor, Economic Analysis, 1997‑2000 

 

Co-investigator, Agency for International Development grant to evaluate of Project Hope's "health banks" in Ecuador and Honduras, cooperative agreement FAO‑0158‑00‑2071‑00, 1994‑1998

 


International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), Senior Scholar Travel Grant, Slovenia, June 1994

 

Research/Travel grant from Economic Policy Institute, to study relationship between German works councils and codetermination, and job training, Dec. 1992

 

Banneker Faculty Research Grant, Summer 1991

 

Fulbright research scholarship, Italy, 1989 ‑ 1990

 

Jean Monnet Research Fellow, European University Institute (the Ph.D. granting institution of the European Union), Florence, Italy, 1989 ‑ 1990

 

Dilthey Faculty Fellowship, Summer 1989

 

Member, Executive Council, International Association for the Economics of Participation (IAFEP), 1988‑2002

 

Recipient, GWU Committee on Research Special Research Grant, Fall 1988

 

Recipient, George Washington University Columbian College Junior Scholar research award, summer 1987, GWU

 

Visiting Scholar, National Institute for Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi, December 1986‑January 1987

 

Winner, 1986 Association for Comparative Economic Studies Paper Competition

 

Recipient, George Washington University Columbian College Junior Scholar research award, summer 1986 

 

Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, European University Institute, Florence (a research fellowship), summer 1984

 

Graduate Research and Teaching Fellowships, Cornell University, 1978‑1983

 

 

Courses Taught:

 

 

Economic Development Doctoral Seminar (at George Washington)

 

Development Economics I: Micro; Ph.D. level (at George Washington)

 

Development Economics II: Macro; Ph.D. level (at George Washington)  

 

Survey of Economic Development, MA level (at George Washington)  

 

Economics of Poverty Alleviation (at George Washington)  

 

Dean's Seminar: Global Poverty‑Causes and Remedies (at George Washington)  

 

Economic Development; undergraduate level (at George Washington)

 

Economic Development, Writing in the Disciplines; undergraduate level (at George Washington)

 

Survey of Microeconomics (graduate, at George Washington)

 

International Economics II (International Finance); undergraduate (at George Washington)

 

Intermediate Microeconomics with Calculus (undergraduate level, at George Washington and Cornell universities)

 

Economic Development, at Foreign Service Institute (State Dept.)

 

Economic Development, for Institute of Brazilian Issues

 

Multidisciplinary Development Seminar, capstone course for International Development Studies master's degree (at George Washington)

 

Economic Effects of Labor Management and Profit Sharing, graduate level (at Cornell University)

 

Transnational Firms and the World Economy (graduate, at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies)

 

Principles of Microeconomics (at George Washington and Cornell)

 

 

 

University Service

 

 

Chair, Economics Ph.D. Committee (Unit I) and Economics Ph.D. Admissions Committee (2006-2008)

 

Director, Research Program in Poverty, Development, and Globalization, Center for Economic Research, 2000‑present, http://www.gwu.edu/~cer1/Development%20Program.htm

 

Co‑Coordinator, GW International Nongovernmental Organization Team (INGOT), 2002‑2007, http://home.gwu.edu/~scsmith/ingot.htm

 

Co-Director, GWU-BRACU exchange

 

Served as Director, International Development Studies Program (IDS), 1992‑1996, awarding the Master of International Development degree in the Elliott School of International Affairs (ESIA)

 

Served as Coordinator, 5‑College IDS Development Committee (designed International Development Studies Program), 1990‑92

 

Member, IDS Advisory Committee, 1996‑2003

 

Member, Advisory Board, GW Center for Latin American Issues, 2000 to present

 

Member, Technical Advisory Committee, GW African Center for Health and Security, 2004 to present

 

Member, Faculty Senate, 1991‑92

 

Member, Search Committee, Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs, 1993‑94 

 

Chair, Recruiting Committee, Development Economics, 2001‑2002

 

Chair, Recruiting Committee, Development Economics, 1993‑94

 

Chair, Recruiting Committee, Development Anthropology, 1992‑93

 

Member, ESIA Appointments, Promotion and Tenure committee, 1997‑2002

 

Member, Elliott School of International Affairs Deans Council, 1990‑92

 

Chair, Joint Committee of Faculty and Students, 1991‑92

 

Member, Columbian College Student Faculty Advisory Committee, 1986‑89

 

Member, Economics Dept. Strategic Planning Special Committee, 1997‑98     

 

Chair, Economics Dept. Seminar Committee, 1984‑89, 1990‑96, 1997‑2000

 

Member, Economics BA Committee and BA Advisor, 1987‑89, 1990‑93

 

Member, Economics MA Committee and MA Advisor, 1986‑89; 1993‑96, 1997‑2006

 

Served at various times on the following GW Economics Department committees:

Curriculum

Library

Principles and Graduate Teaching Assistants

Computer

Special Comm. on Teaching Loads

Four Economics Department tenure reading committees

 

Served at various times on the following GW Elliott School of International Affairs committees:

Honors,

Awards and Graduation Committee;

Ad Hoc Committee on Present and Future Non‑Tenured Appointments

Dean's Council

Appointments, Promotion, and Tenure

 

Recruitment committee member for:

GW Graduate School of Education and Human Development

GW School of Public Health.