Work for UNDP


Post-Conflict Employment Creation for Stabilization and Poverty Reduction

 

PCER Report Chapter 4

 

Is Poverty increasing in Bangladesh? 

 

Monitoring MDG 1 in Middle Income Countries

 

Poverty and Inequality Data Sources (thanks to Maria)

 

UNDP BCPR: Bureau of Crisis Prevention and Recovery

 

UNDP Poverty Group

 

HDR 2007-08


Poverty and Development


The Foreign Aid Debate Round II:


Peter Singer (2009)

The Life you can Save

Newsweek  NYT Review Excerpt

Chronicle of Higher Education

 

Dambisa Moyo (2009) “Dead Aid

Forward and Preface


Africa needs a Green Revolution

 

Bush’s Africa Legacy (BBC)


The Developing World Is Poorer Than We Thought, But No Less Successfulby Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion (using 2005 PPP estimates)


 

On the road from Galle to Colombo

 

Donald Terry IDB, Remittances

 

UN Bali Climate Agreements

Rudi Dornbusch, 1942-2002

 

Michelangelo Antonioni

1913-2007

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Darryl McLeod 

Fordham University

Economics Department mailing address cv

 

Contact: 718 817-4045 or 914 661-6998 (cell)  

 mcleod@fordham.edu  fax: 718 817-3518

 

Office hours:  E-527 Dealy Hall

Monday & Thursday 5:30-6:15pm

Wednesday* 9:30-10pm 

  

Spring 2009 Courses

 

ECRG 3240: World Poverty & Economic Development

2:30 & 4pm 301 FMH  syllabus calendar

Poverty in the United States  

ECGA 6470: Growth & Development calendar

7:30pm 202 Dealy Hall

 

Fall 2009 Courses

 

ECGA 5450: Crises, Adjustment and Poverty

 

Backup web page  Course calendar   backup calendar

 

 

 

 


Summer 2007 Research Tutorial:

 

Econometrics and Research Methods help file

Tutorial Course Statistics using Stata and Eviews

ECRU 3850 Environmental Economics  backup 

 

Selected working papers/publications:

 

Apparel Export jobs for Women: Ladder up or Poverty Trap?”

with Bill Gruben & Maria Davalos (2006) Paper prepared for the 2006 LACEA-LAMES

meetings  ITAM, Mexico City, November 2-4th

 

Apparel Exports and Education: How Developing Nations Encourage Women’s Schoolingwith William C. Gruben, Economic Letter, Vol. 1, No. 3 March 2006, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

 

How fast did Developing Country Poverty fall during the 1990s? : Capabilities-based  tests of rival estimates” Economics Letters, 90, March 2006, 297-303.

 

“Turning Diversity to Advantage: Promoting Fair Trade and Entrepreneurship in Indigenous Communities” in Gillis, Nancy and Sean Southey (2005) A Community Dialogue for Meeting the Millennium Development Goals, Fordham University Press, New York,

 

Apparel jobs in Latin America: ladder up or poverty trap?

with Bill Gruben, Maria Davalos and Rosendo Ramirez, paper presented at the Paper presented at the eighth meeting of the LACEA/IDB/WB Network on Inequality and Poverty (NIP) México, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla July 8th and 9th 2005.

 

Consumption Growth, Poverty and Welfare in the 1990s:

Testing survey vs. national accounts based poverty rates” DataSet (zipped excel file)

 

Remittances, Inequality and poverty Reduction: some tests for Latin America

 

Currency Competition and Inflation Convergence in Latin America

 

Choosing Among Rival Poverty Estimates: Some Tests for Latin America 

 

The Openness-Inflation Puzzle Revisited Applied Economics Letters,

2004,11, 465-468.  dataset (spreadsheet format)   dataset (zipped file)

 

Capital Account Liberalization and Inflation

Economic Letters, 2002, 77,221-25.

 

Capital Account Liberalization and Disinflation (updated version)

Center for Latin American Economics Working Paper #0104

Dallas Federal Reserve Bank, 2001.

 

Capital Account Liberalization and Disinflation in the 1990s,

LACEA Rio 2000 Meetings, October 22, 2000

 

Capital Flows, Savings, and Growth in the 1990s

The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance

Volume 38, Issue 3, part 1,275-532  (Autumn 1998) .

Capital Flight (entry in the Fortune and Concise Encyclopedia of Economics)

 

Minimum Wages and Poverty in Developing Countries  Data Appendix- Table A-3

Chapter 3 of Labor Markets in Latin America: Combining Social Protection with

Market Flexibility (1997) Sebastian Edwards and Nora Claudia Lustig, eds.,

Brookings Institution Press, Washington D.C.

(read it on line at Brookings Institution Press Books on Line )

 

Is Foreign-Currency Indexed Debt a Commitment Technology?

(1999) Some Evidence from Brazil and Mexico

The Costs and Benefits of Fixed Dollar Exchange Rates in Latin America

Economic Review, 1st Quarter, 1993, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

 

Exchange Rate Uncertainty and Economic Growth in Latin America, with John Welch

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Research Paper No. 9338, September 1993.

 

Terms of Trade Fluctuations and Economic Growth

Journal of Development Economic, 37, 1992, pp. 89-110.

 

Mailing Address:

Darryl McLeod, Economics Department

Fordham University

441 East Fordham Road

Bronx, New York  10458-9993

 

Fall 2005 Courses:

 

ECGA 7020: Macroeconomic Theory II   backup web page 7020

 

Phd Macro Comprehensive: Frequently Asked Questions

 

Sylvia Manifold Destiny New Yorker

 


 

 

Finance and Migration  Research Group


Es Ud. de Guerrero o Puebla?

 

Jailed without Justice

 

The Impact of Remittances in Developing Countries: Juan Molina

Contemporary Immigration Issues Summer 2008


Economics Department

New York and the Bronx


Estrellita Poblana III

 

Village Voice Review

 

Little Italy-Arthur Avenue

 

Food in Italy   Roberto

 

New Yorker August 2006

Math prizes and Academia:  Manifold Destiny

Life after Poincare Part I

Life after Poincare Part 2:      A Dutiful Mind                          

Stephen Colbert on the Poincare Conjecture

 

Lynch Bages   Staglin Family