Professor Stephen C. Smith
Stephen C. Smith is Professor of Economics and International Affairs at George Washington University. He received his Ph.D. 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, published in May 2005 by Palgrave Macmillan. He is also co-author with Michael Todaro of a leading textbook, 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, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Smith is also author or coauthor of over three dozen refereed journal articles and many other publications. He is Director of the Research Program in Poverty, Development, and Globalization. Smith served as first director of GWU’s International Development Studies Program. He has done on‑site research and program work in developing countries on four continents including Bangladesh, China, Ecuador, Egypt, India, Peru, Uganda, and Former Yugoslavia. Smith has been a consultant for the World Bank, the International Labour Office (ILO, Geneva), the Small Enterprise Assistance Fund (SEAF), 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 extensive on-site research in Italy, Spain, and Germany, as well as China and India.