Faculty Profile

Stephen C. Smith is Professor of Economics and International Affairs at George Washington University. He received his PhD in economics from Cornell University and has been a Fulbright Research Scholar and a Jean Monnet Research Fellow. Smith is the author of Ending Global Poverty: A Guide to What Works (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005); co-author with Michael Todaro of Economic Development (10th Ed., Addison-Wesley, 2008); and co-editor with Jennifer Brinkerhoff and Hildy Teegen of NGOs and the Millennium Development Goals: Citizen Action to Reduce Poverty (Palgrave Macmillan, June 2007). Smith is also author or coauthor of some three dozen journal articles, and numerous other publications. He serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.

Smith is Director of the Institute for International Economic Policy. He was the director of the Research Program in Poverty, Development, and Globalization from 2001-2009 . He served as first director of GW's International Development Studies Program. Smith has done on‑site research and program work in several regions of the developing world including Bangladesh, China, Ecuador, India, Uganda, and Former Yugoslavia, and has been a consultant for the World Bank, the International Labour Office (ILO, Geneva), and the World Institute for Development Economics Research (UN-WIDER, Helsinki). Smith has also conducted extensive research on the economics of employee participation, including works councils, ESOPs, and labor cooperatives, which has included on-site research in Italy, Spain, and Germany, as well as China and India. For more details you can download Stephen Smith's CV.

Professor Smith teaches courses in development economics. For example, this Fall (2009) he is teaching undergraduate Economic Development (Econ 151); in Spring 2009 he taught the Ph.D. course, Development Economics I (Econ 351); in Fall 2007 he taught Survey of Economic Development (Econ 250) primarily for M.A. students in the International Development Studies Program; and in Fall 2006 he taught Economics of Poverty Alleviation (Econ 195.10).

Professor
PhD, Cornell University

Reasearch Interests: Development economics and poverty; economics of participation; and economics of organization.

Contact Information:
Office: Monroe 306
(202) 994-8086
ssmith at gwu dot edu
http://home.gwu.edu/~ssmith/