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CURRICULUM VITAE
of
ERIK THORBECKE
H.E. Babcock Professor of Economics and Food Economics, Emeritus; Professor of Economics, Emeritus; Graduate School Professor, Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 Phone: 607-255-2066 Fax: 607-255-0178
Nationality: U. S. -Dutch nationality before becoming U.S. Citizen
Marital Status: Married to Charla Westerberg (Fort Bragg, California) 3 children
Field of Specialization and Main Research Interests
Economic and agricultural development; multisectoral macro policy modellingfocussed on growth, poverty alleviation and nutrition; international economics; theory of economic policy; econometrics.
Education:
Institutions attended:
International School, Geneva, Switzerland, 1939-47; Netherlands School of Economics, 1948-51; Emory University, Georgia, 1951-52; University of California, Berkeley, 1952-57.
Degrees:
MaturitéFédérale Suisse, Type C, 1948; Propaedeutical Examination, Netherlands School of Economics, Rotterdam, 1949; Ph.D. (Economics) University of California, Berkeley, 1957.
Professional Experience (Teaching, Research and Other):
2001
Graduate School Professor
2001
Professor of Economics and Nutritional Sciences, Emeritus
1978-2001
H.E. Babcock Professor of Economics and Food Economics, Department of Economics and
Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University
1993/94 and
Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley
1987/88
1980/81
Visiting Professor, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
1975/78
Chairman, Department of Economics, Cornell University
1974-Present
Professor of Economics, Cornell University
1968/73
Professor of Economics, Iowa State University (resuming previous position)
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1966/68
Associate Assistant Administrator for Program Policy, Agency for International Development
(in charge of the following divisions: Program Policy Division, Sector and Market Analysis
Division, Evaluation Division, and Institutional Development Division; total staff of 34
including about 20 professional economists and 4 political scientists in above divisions)
1963/66
Professor, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa: Teaching graduate courses in international
economics, theory of economic policy, economic growth and development
1960/63
Associate Professor, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
1957/60
Assistant Professor, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
1956/57/58
Summer-Lecturer, International Economics, Monterey Institute of Foreign Studies
1955/56
Teaching Assistant, International Economic Relations,
1956/57
University of California
1954/55
Teaching Assistant, Elementary Economics, University of California
1952/55
Research Assistant in International Economics under Professor J.B. Condliffe for the Ford
Foundation
Professional Activities
Membership in Professional Societies:
American Economic Association American Association of Agricultural Economics
Honors, Awards and Editorships
National Award for Best Published Research--American Association of Agricultural Economics, 1970 Member, Gamma Sigma Delta (Honor Society of Agriculture) Who's Who in America, 1977-Who's Who in the East, 1982-Who’s Who in the World, 2002 Doctorate HonorisCausa, University of Ghent, 1981 Member, International Board of Editors, The Pakistan Development Review 1980Member, Board of Advisors, Food and Food Ways, 1982 Member of the Editorial Board, International Journal of Development Planning Literature, 1985 Member of the Editorial Board, World Development, 1994- , Member of the Editorial Board, China Economic Review, 1994-2002 Member of the Editorial Board, The Journal of Socio-Economics, 2001-
Languages Fluent: English, French, Dutch; Reading and Speaking Knowledge: Spanish, German
Professional Assignments
Senior Economic Adviser, National Planning Institute of Peru, Lima, 9/63-9/64, Summer 1965, 1-3/66, helping the Institute in the preparation of the Public Investment Program for 1964-65 and the Development Plan 1967-70.
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Appointed by Secretary of Commerce to membership on the Iowa Regional Export Expansion Council, May 1965 to June 1966.
Associate Director for Economic Development, Iowa-Peru project, 1965-72 (under this project a number of economists and a few lawyers from Iowa State University and the State University of Iowa are working in Peru with various government agencies in economic and agricultural planning. In addition, about 40 Peruvian students have done graduate work at Iowa State University in economics, agricultural economics, statistics and sociology since 1962).
Chairman, Universities National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on the Role of Agriculture in Economic Development, Princeton University, 1967.
Chief, Sector and Market Analysis Division, Office of Program Coordination, Agency for International Development, 1966-67.
Economic Adviser, Government of Spain, on preparation of the Second Plan, 1967.
Consultant, President's Science Advisory Committee on World Food Problem, 1967.Member, U.S. Delegation to meeting of the Development Advisory Committee of OECD on Agricultural Development, Paris, April 1967.
Visiting Professor of Political Economy, The Johns Hopkins University, 1967-68.
Acting Chairman and Chairman, Universities-National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on "The Role of Agriculture in Economic Development", December 1967.
Consultant and member, group of experts to Inter-American Committee on the Alliance for Progress (CIAP) to advise Secretary General on performance criteria and criteria of national effort by Latin American countries, 1967-68.
Member, U.S. Delegation to UNESCO Conference on Educational Planning, Paris, August 1968.
Consultant, Agency for International Development, 1968-81.
Consultant, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (to the Creditworthiness Division and to the Development Research Center) 1968.
Consultant, organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Development Center (Paris) on design of project on Unemployment in Lesser Developed Countries, Summer, 1969-72.
Consultant, Food and Agriculture Organization (Rome) on formulation of medium term research program on employment in developing countries undertaken in collaboration with the International Labour Office, 1970-71.
Chairman, Panel of Interaction between World Population and World Food Problems, National Academy of Engineering--Symposium, Washington, D.C. , April 1970.
Visiting Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Tunis, delivering series of lectures on economic development and advising CERES, February-March 1970,71,72.
Director, program in Economic and Agricultural Development (AID 211d Institutional Grant, ISU), 1970-72.
Chairman, Conference on Agricultural Sector Analysis and Planning, Iowa State University, May 1971.
Chairman, International Committee American Association of Agricultural Economics, 1970-72.
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Program Chairman of Sessions on Economic Development and International Trade, Econometric Society, meeting, Toronto, 1972. Member of Advisory Board and Consultant, Earth Satellite Corporation, 1972-74.
Senior Economist, World Employment Programme, International Labour Office, Geneva, 1972-73. Director, first In-Training Course on Agricultural Sector Analysis and Economic Development, FAO, Rome, June 1972.
Member of Steering Committee on Income Distribution and Employment Programme under ILO's World Employment Programme, 1972-81.
Member Advisory Panel to evaluate Agricultural Sector Planning Project in Brazil, 1972. Member, Comprehensive Employment Mission of the International Labor Office to the Philippines, Summer 1973.
Member of ILO Panel of International Experts to advise FAO's Committee on Agriculture on the Effects of Food Production Technology and Achievement of Social Goals, FAO, Rome, August 1974. Member, Research Advisory Committee, US Agency for International Development, 1975-82.
Consultant, on Project "Agriculture Towards Year 2000", FAO, 1977. Consultant to ILO and Government of Kenya on a Quantitative Framework for Planning a Basic Needs Strategy (Nutrition, Health, Education), 1977-82.
Member, International Nutrition Committee of National Research Council, U.S. National Academy of
Sciences, 1979-81. Economic Adviser to Center for Economic Planning and Research in Athens in preparation for Five-Year Economic Development Plan for Greece, June 1978.
Co-principal investigator of a National Science Foundation grant on "Technology in Developing Countries"
($127,655), September 1978-December 1979. Participated in a Roundtable meeting on "Optimal Cooperation Policies for Development" organized by the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands, November 1978.
Member of a Panel of Experts to evaluate Modelling work of the World Bank, Washington, D.C., January
1979. Presented seminars on Development Planning and the Social Accounting Matrix at the Institute for International Economic Studies at the University of Stockholm and at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, January 1979.
Independent expert at an interagency meeting on the World Food Problem organized jointly by the World
Food Council and the World Bank, Washington, D.C., February 1979. Participated in a meeting on Basic Needs Planning within the Context of Latin America organized jointly by the Regional Employment Center for Latin America of the International Labor Office and the Institute of Social Sciences, Bogota, Colombia, March 1979.
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Participant and Chairman of session on Economic Strategy in Agriculture Conference on Agricultural and Rural Development in the People's Republic of China, Cornell University, May 1979.
Lectured on the Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) at the Central Statistical Bureau (Jakarta) and helped establish a collaborative program to build a SAM for Indonesia at the CBS, September 1979.
Technical Adviser and Co-leader of project on Measurement of Social Welfare in Indonesia. Under this project, the Institute of Social Studies (The Hague) and Cornell University provide technical assistance to the Central Bureau of Statistics of Indonesia in the building of a Social Accounting Matrix. (This project is funded by the Dutch Aid Agency.), 1979-1988.
Visiting Professor, Center for Development Planning, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, 1980-81.
Collaborative Project with Prof. P. Cornelisse, Erasmus University, Rotterdam on a "Typology of Markets in Developing Countries," 1981-.
Participant in Conference on Taiwan's Economic Development organized by Academia Sinica and discussant of research results on Taiwan's Agricultural Development Performance with members of JCRR, Taipei, Taiwan, December 1981-January 1982.
Member of "Jury d'Agregation de Sciences Economiques", University of Tunis, April 1982.
Mission Leader, Special Programming Mission to Guyana to formulate National Food Strategy sponsored by International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Summer 1982.
Chairman, Meeting at OECD Development Center, Paris on Macro Economic Policies and Agricultural Development, March 1983.
Participant in a research program under the auspices of OECD Development Center on Effects of Macroeconomic Policies on Agricultural Performance in Poor Countries. As part of this program, I undertook and completed two comprehensive studies (with J. Svejnar) on Sri Lanka and Nepal, respectively, 1984. (Listed under publications)
Government Representative, Member of the Advisory Committee on Rural Development of the International Labour Office Tenth Session of the Committee held in Geneva, November 22-December 1, 1983.
Senior Member of a team to evaluate the work presently being done in Kenya on the Social Accounting Matrix under the sponsorship of the Ministry of Finance and Planning, the Institute of Development Studies and ILO. (Nairobi, September 1-12, 1984).
Appointed by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office as Government Representative Member of the Advisory Committee on Rural Development for a five-year term, 1985-1990.
Leader of Special Programming Mission of IFAD to formulate Rural Development Strategy for Indonesia, 1986-1987.
Organizer and Chairman, Conference on "The Role of Institutions in Economic Development" under the joint sponsorship of the H.E. Babcock Chair and the Program on Comparative Economic Development, Cornell University, November 14-15, 1986.
Member, Subcommittee on Issues of Health and the Economy, World Health Organization, 1988-1993.
Director, Program on Comparative Economic Development, Cornell University, 1988 - 2001.
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Participant, Conference on Large Scale Social Science Models, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, September 1989. Presented paper on "The Social Accounting Matrix Framework to Capture the Interdependence between Domestic and Foreign Variables."
Participant in Poverty Research Conference organized by the World Bank and the International Food Policy
Research Institute at Airlie House, Washington, DC, October 1989. Principal Investigator, Africa Economic Policy Project -Zaire Case Study (funded by USAID -$1,000,000), 1989-93.
Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Policy Reform, Washington, DC, 1990-.
Participated in and presented paper to World Bank Senior Policy Seminar meetings in Caracus, Venezuela, July 1990.
Participated in and presented paper at Conference on "A SAM for Europe", Valencia, September 1990.
Participant in Conference on The Transition to a Market Economy--Institutional Aspects, Prague, Czechoslovakia, March 1991, sponsored by Institute for Policy Reform.
Participant in Colloquium on Employment and Poverty in Indonesia organized by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, April 1991.
Participant in USAID-Institute for Policy Reform 1991 Economists' Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina, November 1991.
Co-organizer and co-chairman (with Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet) of International Conference cosponsored by the World Employment Program of the ILO and the Program on Comparative Economic Development at Cornell University on "State, Market, and Civil Institutions: New Theories, New Practices, and their Implications for Rural Development," Ithaca, NY, December 1991.
Participated in and presented paper at "National Conference on Sustainable Agricultural and Rural Development in Indonesia--Towards the Year 2020", organized by Ministry of Agriculture and Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development. Paper titled: "Towards an Interregional and Intersectoral Rural Development Strategy", January 1992.
Presented paper at Eastern Economic Association meetings on "Impact of State and Civil Institutions on the Operation of Rural Market and Non-Market Configurations", March 1992.
Presented seminar on research undertaken for Institute for Policy Reform to USAID senior economists in Washington, DC on "Markets and Organizational Structures in Developing Countries", April 1992.
Participated in Conference on Training and Food and Agricultural Policy Analysis, Montpellier, France,
June 1992.
Participant in Conference on Confronting the Challenge of Poverty in Latin America organized by the Inter- American Dialogue and Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, July 1992.
Presented seminars at Erasmus University, Rotterdam and Leiden University, September, 1992.
Participated in and presented paper at Conference on Adjustment and Equity organized by the North-South Institute of Canada and the Canadian International Development Agency, Ottawa, Canada, November 1992.
Keynote speaker at Colloquium organized by the French Ministry of Cooperation and Development, the Ministry of Health, and the World Health Organization on "Health, Technology and Development", Paris, France, December 1992.
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Prepared and presented main paper at 4th meeting of the United Nations Interagency Working Group on Industrial Contributions to Rural Development (title of paper: "Intersectoral Linkages and Their Impact on Rural Poverty Alleviation: A Social Accounting Matrix Approach", Washington, DC, May 1993.
Presented invited lecture to the staff of the Employment and Development Department of the ILO on "Development and Poverty, the Key Issues in the 1990s and the Role of the ILO," September 1993.
Co-organized for CIIFAD and participated in workshop on "Alternative Models, Measurement and Data for Supporting Sustainable Development in Indonesia," November 1993.
Participant in Exploratory workshop on Voluntary International Accords Based on Market-mechanisms to Reduce Atmospheric Concentrations on Greenhouse Gases and present paper on "Marketable Permits for Greenhouse Gases: Perceptions of, Implications for, and Impact Upon Developing Countries," Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, January 1994.
Participant in panel discussion on “Issues in Global Management: Business Development in the Pacific Rim”, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, February 1994.
Participant in CFNPP/USAID conference on Adjustment and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa and presented paper on "Macroeconomic Policies and Poverty Alleviation in Zaire: A Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) Approach", March 1994.
Presented seminar on “Poverty Measures, Poverty Profiles and Poverty Alleviation Targetting in Developing Countries”, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of California, Davis, June
1994.
Participated in one-week workshop of selected scientists (including three Nobel Prize Laureates) organized by World Health Organization and Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences to explore the "Impact of Scientific Advances on Future Health", Charlottesville, Virginia, June 1994.
Participated in conference-workshop organized by Institute for Policy Reform with USAID Washington, DC, July 1994.
Presented main paper at OECD Development Center conference (Experts' meeting) on "What Future for Africa?" on Performance in Subsaharan Africa under adjustment and components of a long-term development strategy, Paris, France, September -October 1994.
Gave series of 10 lectures at Centre D'Etudeset de Recherchessur le Developpement International, UniversitéD'Auvergne, ClermondFerrand, France, October 1994.
Delivered First Frank H. Golay memorial lecture on "The political economy of development: Indonesia and the Philippines", Goldwyn Smith Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, November 1994.
Attended meeting on GATT at the invitation of President Clinton, East Room of White House, Washington, DC, November 1994.
Presented seminar on poverty to World Bank economists, Washington, DC, December 1994.
Presented lecture on modelling in Indonesia and possible research collaboration between CIIFAD and Indonesian Government, Bappenas (Ministry of Planning), Jakarta, Indonesia, March 1995
Presented seminar on "Food and nutrition policy in economic development, Institute of Demography, Faculty, of Economics, University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia, March 1995.
Presented seminar on "Income distribution and poverty in economic development: the Indonesian case", University of Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia, April 1995.
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Evaluated program of African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Nairobi, Kenya, May -June, 1995.
Attended Warwick University Summer Research Workshop on “Numerical Simulation Methods in Economics”, presented paper on “A Multiplier Decomposition Method to Analyze Poverty Alleviation” and gave lectures, Coventry, United Kingdom, July 1995.
Gave eight lectures on a variety of development topics at Centre D’Étudeset de Recherchessur le Développement International (CERDI) in Clermont Ferrand, France, October 1995.
Attended workshop organized by African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) and presented my evaluation report of AERC Research Program to the AERC Advisory Committee. Explored possibility of collaborative research project between AERC and Cornell on poverty. Johannesburg, South Africa, December 1995.
Organizer and participant of a major conference on "Government and Market: The relevance of the Taiwanese performance (1945-1995) to development theory and policy", a conference in memory of Professors Ta-Chung Liu and Sho-chiehTsiang, sponsored by the Department of Economics, the East Asian Program and the Program on Comparative Economic Development at Cornell University together with the Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica and the Chiang-Ching-kuo Foundation, Taiwan, held at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, May 3-4, 1996.
Attended conference in honor of Professor Gustav Ranis at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, May 1996.
Presented series of conferences to deputies, high level civil servants, businessmen and journalists and meet with Minister of Finance of Madagascar at request of US Embassy and USIA re: impact of structural adjustment on poverty, Antananarive, Madagascar, May 1996.
Presented paper (co-authored with S. Paternostro) on "Rural informal credit configurations and impact of financial liberalization, presented at a conference on "Economic growth and poverty: the role of the market, public action and community, CRED, Namur, Belgium, July 6-13, 1996.
Presented seminar on "The institutional foundations of macroeconomic stability: Indonesia vs. Nigeria, presented for Program on Comparative Economic Development, Cornell, September 27, 1996