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Stephen C. Smith

Professor of Economics and International Affairs

Director, Institute for International Economic Policy

1957 E Street, NW Suite 502

Washington, D.C. 20052

Phone: (202) 994-8086
Fax: (202) 994-5477
E-mail: ssmith@gwu.edu
Homepage: http://home.gwu.edu/~ssmith/

Education:

Ph.D., Cornell University

Expertise:

Development economics and poverty; economics of participation; and economics of organization

Background:

Stephen C. Smith is Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the 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. Professor 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). He 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.

Professor Smith is Director of the Elliott School's Institute for International Economic Policy. He was the director of the Research Program in Poverty, Development, and Globalization from 2008-2009 . He also served as the first director of the Elliott School's International Development Studies Program. Professor Smith has done on-site research and program work in several regions of the developing world including Bangladesh, China, Ecuador, India, Uganda, and the 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). He 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 Professor Smith's CV.

Courses Taught:

Econ 151 Economic Development
Econ 195 Economics of Povery Alleviation
Econ 217 Survey of Economics (Intermediate Microeconomic Theory)
Econ 250 Survey of Development Economics
Econ 251 Development Economics I
Econ 252 Development Economics II
Econ 351 PhD Seminar: Economic Development

Last update: 9/18/2009