Mwangi wa Gĩthĩnji

• City College of New York - B.A. Economics, Magna Cum Laude (1989)
• University of California - Riverside - M.A. Economics (1991)
• University of California - Riverside - Ph.D. Economics (1997)

• Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2014 - present
• Co-Director World Studies Interdisciplinary Studies Project 2011-present
• Chair Five Colleges African Studies Council (2013-15)
• Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2006-2014
• Chair, Africana Studies Program Gettysburg College, 2002 - 2006
• Associate Professor of Economics and Africana Studies, Gettysburg College, 2004-2006
• Assistant Professor of Economics and International Studies, Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University 1999 - 2002
• Assistant Professor of Economics and Africana Studies, Gettysburg College, 1997-1999, 2002-2004
• Global Studies Scholar, Gettysburg College, 1996-97
• Lecturer, Economics Department, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana, Mexico 1993-1994

• The political economy of development with particular interest in Africa and issues of inequality, poverty, rural development and the environment
• Marxian Class analysis
• The impact of East Asian development on African countries

• Editorial Board - Rethinking Marxism, African Studies Review

• Joint-PI  Andrew Mellon Foundation Grant, “Creating a Decolonial Global Studies Graduate Certificate”, October 2021-December 2024, $500K + $568K University Matching funds 
• STRIDE FELLOW – University of Massachusetts-Amherst (2021-22)
• WSIP 2018 Conference, “Decolonial Reconstellations in the Longue Duree" CSBS/HFA Provost and VCRE office Grants 2017-18   Amount $40K.
• Co-principal Investigator, Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar, “The Medieval in the Modern: Rethinking Global Paradigms of Political Economy and Culture” University of Massachusetts-Amherst, June 2014-2017, $175K + $43K internal matching funds
• Co-principal Investigator, Mellon Five College Summer Research Seminar, Ethnicity and Economic Identity, Summer 2013. Amount: $24000
• Faculty Research/Healey Endowment Grant University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2010-2011. Amount $15000
• Lilly Teaching Fellow - University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2010-2011.
• Contributor, NSF Research for Undergraduates Grant, Title: "Land conservancy and resource management at nature preserves in the Mid-Atlantic states." Gettysburg College, June 2003-2005, Amount $168K.
• Co-principal Investigator, NSF Grant for Undergraduate Science Education, Curriculum Development and Instrumentation. Title: "Discovery-Based Science and Mathematics in an Environmental Context," Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University, May 2001-2004, Amount $400K.

Journal Articles

• “Migration in Kenya: Beyond Harris-Todaro”  - International Journal of Applied Economics) with Cem Oyvat, 34:1, 4-35 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1080/02692171.2019.1620702  (with Cem Ovyat)
• “Small Farms Smaller Plots: Land Size, Fragmentation, and Productivity in Ethiopia” (with Mark Paul) Journal of Peasant Studies – Vol 45, Issue 4, (2018) pp 757-775
• “Erasing Class/(re)Creating Ethnicity:  Politics, Jobs, Accumulation and Identity in Kenya” The Review of Black Political Economy: Volume 42, Issue 1 (2015), Page 87-110 
• “Small and Productive:  Kenyan Women and Crop Choice” (with Charalampos Konstantinidis and Andrew Barenberg) – Feminist Economics Issue 20.1 January 2014 

Book Chapters

• “Growing Unequally: An Audit of the Impact of Kenya’s Vision 2030 on Growth” in SIDs Kenya Vision 2030: An Audit from an Income and Gender Inequalities Perspective, Society for International Development, Nairobi (2010)
• “Is that a Dragon or Elephant on your Ladder: The Potential Impact of China and India on Export Led Growth in African Countries?” Sylvain Boko and Diery Seck (eds.) Back on Track: Sector Led Growth in Africa, African World Press, New Jersey (2010).
• “Income, Working Standards and Labor Mobility: Planning for an Integrated African Economy” (with Patrick Mason) in Sylvain Boko and Diery Seck (eds) NEPAD and the Future of Economic Policy in Africa, African World Press, New Jersey (January 2008)
• “Untying the Gordian Knot: The Question of Land Reform in Ethiopia” (with Gebru Mersha), in A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi (ed.) Land Policies, Poverty Reduction and Public Action, Routledge Press, (January 2007).

Books

• An Employment-Targeted Economic Plan for Kenya (with Robert Pollin and James Heintz), Edward Elgar (July 2008).
• Ten Millionaires and Ten Million Beggars: A Study of Income and Development in Kenya, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, England (December 2000).

Journals 

• African Studies Review
• African Review of Economics and Finance
• African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development
• American Journal of Political Science
• Canadian Journal of Development Studies
• Development and Change
• Development Studies Research
• European Journal of Development Research
• Feminist Economics
• Foresight
• Journal of African Development
• Journal of Development Studies
• Journal of Ecological Economics
• Journal of Environment and Development Economics
• Journal of Human Development
• Journal of Instituional Economics
• Journal of Peasant Studies
• Journal of Quantitative Economics
• Land Use Policy
• Rethinking Marxism
• Review of African Political Economy
• Review of Black Political Economy
• Review of Radical Political Economy
• Review of Social Economics
• South African Journal of International Affairs
• Sage Social Science Open Journal
• Structural Change and Economic Dynamics
• World Development

Books 

• Visions for Africa, Olubenga Adesida (ed.) Greenwood Publishing, (2002)
• Globalised Africa: The Political and Economic Implications, Kwame A. Ninsin (Editor), Nordic Africa Institute
• The Many Faces of African Poverty, Howard White (ed.) Routledge Press, London (Book Proposal)
• The Delivery of Public Services in Sub-Saharan Africa, Ben Fine (ed.) Taylor and Francis, London (Book Proposal)
• Towards a New Developmentalism, Shahrukh Rafi Khan, Jens Christiansen (eds) Taylor and Francis (2010)
• Economic Development through Regional Trade, Kato Kimbugwe et al, Routledge (Book Proposal)
• African Transformation Report 2012 – ACET, Accra, Ghana
• The State and the Political Economy of Corruption – Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o – Palgrave (Book Proposal)
• Neo-Colonialism and the Poverty of ‘Development’ in Africa -Mark Langan – Palgrave (Book Proposal)

• African Finance and Economic Association
• African Studies Association
• Association for Economic and Social Analysis (Board of Directors 2013-2015)
• Association for the Advancement of African Women Economist (Member – International Advisory Board – 2013 - present)
• Diversity Initiative for Tenure in Economics (DITE), Mentor, Duke University Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity, 2016-present
• Eastern Economic Association
• International Association for Feminist Economics
• National Economic Association (Board of Directors 2016-2020)
• International Food and Health Organization (Board of Directors – 2007-2012)

Papers Presented

• “Understanding Our Past to Plan Our Future: Nkrumah and the Future of African Economies” African Awareness Week, Morehouse College Panel on Nkrumah’s Planned Economy Revisited - Socialism, Cooperatives or Capitalism for African Development, Atlanta, September 2020.
• “Agrarian Transition and Development in an Age of Globalised Inequality: Some Questions and Answers from Africa” Greenwich University, England, March 2019
• “Agrarian Transition and Development in an Age of Globalised Inequality: Some Questions and Answers from Africa” University of Birmingham, England, March 2019
• “Agrarian Transition and Development in an Age of Globalised Inequality: Some Questions and Answers from Africa” SOAS-University of London, England, March 2019
• “Small Farms, Exploitation and African Development: Exploring a non-exploitative path for Agrarian transition in Kenya” 2nd World Congress on Marxism, Peking University, May 2018
• “Africa in the Longue Durée: Rethinking categories of Economy and Identity“, Decolonial Reconstellations Conference, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, March 2018
• Keynote Speaker "The Possibility and Impossibility of a Just Post Colonial Development" Inherited Injustices, Habib University Post-Colonial Higher Education Conference, Karachi, October 2017
• "Africa, Globalization and the Challenges of Structural Transformation in a Neo-liberal World" Habib University Roundtable, Karachi, October 2017
• "Excelling in Teaching", Diversity Initiative for Tenure in Economics (DITE), Mentor, Duke University Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity, February 2017
• “Marxism, Globalization and Afrian Development”, Panel on the Development of Global Capitalism and Marxian Economics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, October 2015.
• “Erasing Class/(re)Creating Ethnicity: Politics, Jobs, Accumulation and Identity in Kenya” World Congress on Marxism, School of Marxism, Peking University, Beijing, October 2015
• “Erasing Class/(re)Creating Ethnicity: Politics, Jobs, Accumulation and Identity in Kenya” Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, October 2015.
• “Small and Productive: Kenyan Women and Crop Choice” IAFFE Conference, University of Ghana at Legon, Ghana, June 2014
• “The Impossibility and Possibility of African Development: The Place of Culture in Structural Transformation” Africa: Art, Memory and Culture Conference, University of Scranton, Scranton PA, April 2014.
• “Ethnicity as Economic Identity: Politics and Economic out Comes in Three Regimes” Kenya at 50 Conference, Paul Nitze School of advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC, September 2013
• Conference Organization Committee and Panel Organizer and Presenter, “Economic and Cultural Identity: Rethinking Ethnic Solidarity and Access to Surplus in African Nations” RM 2013 International Conference: Surplus, Solidarity and Sufficiency, Africa and its Diaspora: Marx and Method Panel, Amherst, September 2013.
• “On World of the Third and Global Capitalism” RM 2013 International Conference: Surplus, Solidarity and Sufficiency, Book Panel, Amherst, September 2013
• “Am I Middle Class: Class, Ethnicity and Politics in Kenya” Stratification Economics Panel Panel at the Eastern Economics Meetings, New York, May 2013.
• “Africa’s Booming Billions” New York University Africa House Panel Presentation, May 2013
• China in Africa: Ally or Competitor” Five College Retiree Workshop, Northampton, April 2013
• “Am I Middle Class: Class, Ethnicity and Politics in Kenya” NEA Panel at the ASSA Meetings, San Diego, January 2013.
• “Erasing Class/(re)Creating Ethnicity: Politics, Jobs, Accumulation and Identity in Kenya” Eastern Economic Association Meetings - Boston, March 2012.
• “Industrialization by Export Destination: The relationship between trade and export sophistication in African Countries” Eastern Economic Association Meetings - Boston, March 2012.
• “Beyond Redistribution, The Relationship between Land Size Productivity and the Household as a collective: the case of Kenya Eastern Economic Association Meetings - Boston, March 2012.
• “Erasing Class/(re)Creating Ethnicity: Politics, Jobs, Accumulation and Identity in Kenya” Mellon Sawyer Workshop on Ethnicity – University of Michigan Ann Arbor, November 2011.
• “A New Century: The State, Development and Equality in African Economies” Whose Culture? Who’s Development? Central Pennsylvania Consortium Africana Studies Conference 2011, Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvannia, April 2011.
• "Beyond Redistribution, The Relatioship between Land Size Productivity and the Household as a collective: the case of Kenya” Eastern Economic Association Meetings – UMASS Economics Department Political Economy Seminar, March 2011.
• “Transparency without Accountability: The Political Economy of Reform in Kenya” Corruption and the Pursuit of Accountability in Africa Conference, Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, February 2011.
• “Growing Unequally: The Case of Development Planning in Kenya” African Finance and Economics Association panel at the ASSA Meetings, Denver January 2011.
• “Transparency without Accountability: The Political Economy of Reform in Kenya” African Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 2010.
• “Land Reform – Linking Research to Better Outcomes” University of Pretoria International Conference on The Changing Rural Landscape in a Global Context, Farm Inn, Pretoria, South Africa, November 2010.
• “Inequality, Growth and African Development: Understanding the need for Structural Transformation of African Economies” 5th. Annual Derrick K. Gondwe Memorial Lecture on Social and Economic Justice, Gettysburg College, PA, October 2010.
• “Dhows to Planes: Trade Relations between the Arabian Gulf and Africa and their impact on Development” – African Economic Conference, Addis Ababa, November 2009.
• “Class and the Developmental State in Africa” - New Marxian Times, RM2009 International Conference, November 2009.
• “Dhows to Planes: Trade Relations between the Arabian Gulf and Africa and their impact on Development” – International Atlantic Economic Conference, Boston, October 2009.
• “The Possibility of a Developmental State in Africa” Keynote Address University of Kansas African Studies Conference on Trade and Development, October 2009.
• “Growing Unequally: Audit of Vision 2030”, SID meeting on Vison 2030 – Nairobi, September 2009
• “Is that a Dragon or an Elephant on your Ladder: The Impact of China and India on Export-Led growth in Africa” University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, September 2009.
• “Is that a Dragon or an Elephant on your Ladder: The Impact of China and India on Export-Led growth in Africa” University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, September 2009.
• “Inequality and Kenya’s Vision 2030” – SIDA meeting on Vison 2030 – Nairobi, July 2009
• “Are Poverty Processes the Same? The Determinants of Poverty among Female Headed Households in Rural Kenya”, URPE/IAFFE Gender and Development Panel, IAFEE meetings, Boston, June 2009.
• “Liberalization and Inequality: The case of Urban wages in Kenya” Festschrift Conference in honor of Prof. Khan, PERI, Amherst, March 2009.
• “Dhows to Planes: Trade Relations between the Arabian Gulf and Africa and their impact on Development” – The Africa-Arab Gulf Relationships Conference, Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, Abu-Dhabi, March 2009.
• Organizer and Presenter- “Erasing Class/(re)Creating Ethnicity: Politics, Jobs and Identity in Kenya” URPE Panel Intersections/Entry Points: Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Class in Economics, ASSA Meetings, San Francisco, January 2009.
• “Substance not Form: Institutions, Democracy and Development in Kenya” (with Frank Holmquist) Five College African Studies Council Seminar, November 2008.
• “Is that a Dragon or an Elephant on your Ladder: The Impact of China and India on Export-Led growth in Africa” Nordic African Institute, Africa, China and India Conference, Uppsala, Sweden, September 2008.
• “Democracy and Development in Africa: The case of Kenya” Roundtable on Democracy and Development in Africa, When Will Africa Develop Conference, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, New School for Social Research, New York, May 2008.
• “Kenya’s Hopes and Impediments”, World Affairs Council, Springfield, MA, April 2008.
• “Are Poverty Processes the Same? The Determinants of Poverty among Female Headed Households in Rural Kenya”, URPE/IAFFE Gender and Development Panel, ASSA meetings, New Orleans. January 2008.
• “Is that a Dragon or an Elephant on your Ladder: the Impact of China and India on Export-Led growth in Africa” AFEA , Institutions, Structure, and African Development Panel ASSA meetings, New Orleans, January 2008
• “Is that a Dragon or an Elephant on your Ladder: the Impact of China and India on Export-Led growth in Africa” UNECA/AfDB African Economic Conference, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, November 2007
• “An Employment Targeted Economic Program for Kenya” UNDP/PERI Book Launch and Workshop, Nairobi, Kenya, November 2007
• Organising Committee member and Presenter - “Is that a Dragon or an Elephant on your Ladder: the Impact of China and India on Export-Led growth in Africa” AFEA/IDEP Sector Led Growth Conference, Dakar Senegal, November 2007
• “Socio-economic Change and the Sustainability of Growth in Kenya” KPMG Budget Dinner – Keynote Speaker, Nairobi, June 2007
• “The Land Question in Africa: Agrarian change, Poverty and Development” University of Vermont, Burlington, April 2007 “An Employment-led Macro-Economic Strategy for Kenya” UNDP Workshop, Nairobi, Kenya, October 2006
• Organising Committee member and Presenter - “Working Standards and Labour Mobility in Africa” AFEA/IDEP conference on NEPAD and Economic Policy, Dakar, Sengal, November 2005.
• “The Impact of Stagnation on Poverty and Inequality: The Case of Kenya” UNDP/ILO Meeting on Employment, Inequality and Poverty Reduction, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2005.
• “Identity, Development and Persistent Rural Poverty: The Case of Ethiopia” Florida State University Conference on Persistent Interracial inequality and Identity, Tallahassee, Florida, March 2005.
• “A Radical Moderate and a Pragmatic Approach towards a People Centered Economics: Remembering Derrick Gondwe” Eastern Economic Association Meetings, March 2005.
• “Untying the Gordian Knot: Land Reform in Ethiopia” Institutute of Social Studies and UNDP Conference on Land Tenure, The Hague, Netherlands, February 2005.
• “Exploring Development, Poverty and the Environment in Sub-Saharan Africa” Geography Department Seminar, University of South Carolina, January 2005.
• “Excavating Economics in African American Studies” URPE Panel on Black Political Economy and African American Studies, ASSA, Philadelphia, January 2005.
• “The Land and Poverty Nexus in Kenya” The Challenge of Development in the 21st Century, Department of Economics, University of California, Riverside, June 2004.
• “Class Transition in the Age of Globalization: Uneven Development in Rural India and Kenya” (with Stephen Cullenberg). Egalitarian Development in the Era of Globalization Conference, PERI, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, April 2004.
• “Deconstructing the Peasantry: Class and Development in Rural Kenya” URPE Panel: Political Economy of Africa, ASSA, Washington DC, January 2003.
• Organiser and Presenter – NEA Panel: “Institutions, Poverty and Growth in Africa” Title of Paper: “Neighbors, Land and Poverty: The role of social capital in determining the poverty status of Rural Households in Kenya, ASSA, Atlanta, January 2002.
• “Gender, Time Allocation and Income in Rural Kenya,” presented at UC-Riverside Department of Economics’ Political Economy and Development Seminar Series, June 2001. “Disappearing Biodiversity, Emerging Rural Markets, and Changing Household Labour Allocation In The Yucatan Peninsula,” International Society of Ecological Economics 6th Biennial Conference, Canberra, Australia, July 2000.
• “Poverty Eradication and Gender Mainstreaming In Sub-Saharan Africa” Technical Review Meeting, United Nations, New York, March 2000.
• Chair of Panel and Presenter “Economic Integration and the Environment: The case of Rural Maquiladoras and Biodiversity Loss in the Yucatan,” Latin American Studies Association Meeting, Miami, March 2000.
• “The Use of Class in African Literature,” Multi-ethnic Literatures and the Idea of Social Justice Conference, New Orleans, March 2000.
• “Is there a Role for Cooperatives in African Development: Lessons from Home and Mondragon,” Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation Seminar Series, University of California, Riverside, June 1999.
• “Ten Millionaires and Ten Million Beggars,” NEA Dissertation Panel, ASSA Meetings, New York, January 1999.
• “Cost Benefit Analysis and Biodiversity Workshop,” Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Facultad de Medicina Veternaria y Zootecnia, México, November 1998 (with T. Kelly).
• “Contrasting Experiences: Adjustment, Growth, and Inequality in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa,” Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, México, November 1998, (with T. Kelly).
• “The Peasantry in Africa: Not all are equal,” Bard College Economics Department, New York October, 1998.
• “Income Distribution in Malawi,” Congress of Political Economists Annual Conference, Barbados, West Indies, July 1998 (with D. Gondwe).
• “The Promises and Pitfalls of Marketisation in Africa: Women, Time Allocation, and the Environment,” Graduate School of International Studies, Denver University, Denver, April 1997.
• “Finding Time for the Environment,” presented at workshop on Poverty and the Environment, UNDP, New York, March 1997.
• “Mafelahi ama Wafanya Kazi? Workers or Peasants: Class and Development in Kenya” Politics and Languages of Contemporary Marxism, University of Massachusetts, Amherst , December 1996.
• “Poverty in Africa: Its Many Dimensions, New And Old,” presented at workshop on: Key Dimensions of Poverty in Africa, UNDP, New York, November 1996.
• Keynote Address for 13th Annual Gettysburg College Area Studies Seminar Series, “Africa Today: Nature, Society and Change,” Gettysburg, September 1996.
• “The Questions are Holistic but the Research is Discipline Bound: Addressing Questions of Sustainable Development in Africa,” presented at Panel on: Africans on Research in Africa: A Research Manifesto, at Stanford University, April 1996.
• “Gender, Time Allocation, Environmental Degradation and Structural Adjustment in Kenya,” presented at the International Studies Association Conference, April 1996, San Diego.
• “Income Distribution and Household Size: An analysis of Kenya,” presented at UC-Riverside Department of Economics’ Development Seminar Series, December 1995.
• “Social and Ecological Sustainability in the use of Biotic Resources in Sub-Saharan Africa,” presented at conference on: Conservation of Biodiversity in Africa: Local Initiatives and Institutional Roles, National Museums of Kenya, June 1992, Nairobi.

Meetings – Organizer/Panel Chair

Moderator – Technical Meeting on Accelerating Poverty and Inequality reduction in Africa Economic Commission for Africa –11-13 December 2019, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Scientific Committee and Panel Chair, African Innovation Summitt II, June 6-8, 2018 Kigali, Rwanda

Co-organizer WSIP Decolonial Reconstellations Conference and related Seminars February 28- March 3, 2018, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Organizing Committee, Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series 2015-16 Beyond Modern and Medieval: Rethinking Global Paradigms of Political Economy and Culture, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, MA

• Thinking the Medieval Otherwise: Inter-Materialities in the Global Southeast
  • Linked States of Knowledge: Libraries, Literacies and Material Histories – October 2015
  • Geopolitical Intimacies and Gendered Economies – November 2015
• Thinking the Modern Otherwise: Layered Inter-Materialities and Global Dynamics
  • Geopolitical Economies after 1450: Resituating Reconquista, Westphalia and Capitalist modernity – March 2016
  • Medieval to Post/colonial: Rethinking Geopolitical and Aesthetic Economies – April 2016

Organizing Committee, Surplus, Solidarity and Sufficiency RM 2013 International Conference, Amherst, MA, September 2013

Co-organizer “Empires, Economy, and Culture Before and After 1500: Implications for Global and Post-Colonial Studies” World Studies Interdisciplinary Project, University of Massachusetts- Amherst , September 2012

Organizing Committee “Third ICAPE Conference” University of Massachusetts- Amherst, November 2011

Chair, AFEA Panel on Country Specific Studies of Economic Development, ASSA Meetings, Denver January 2011.

Co-Chair Organizing Committee, New Marxian Times RM 2009 International Conference, Amherst, MA, November 2009.

Meetings – Discussant/Invited Participant

Chair, RM Excess/Surplus Conference, Social Technologies of the Global Economy, University of California-Riverside, April 2008.

Organizer - “Globalizations and the African World”CPC African American Studies Conference, and Co-Curator “Art of the African Diaspora in an Age of Globalization” 2004, Gettysburg College, PA. Feb 2004.
http://www.gettysburg.edu/academics/aas/Conference/index.html

Chair, RM/AESA Symposium, Rethinking Marxism 2003 Gala Conference, Amherst, Massachusetts, November 2003.

Chair, Global Perspectives on Globalization Panel, Marxism 2000 Conference, Amherst, Massachusetts, September 2000.

Chair, Political Thinking about/in Cuba Panel, Marxism 2000 Conference, Amherst, Massachusetts, September 2000.

Reviewer – African Center for Economic Transformation Workshop on African Transformation Report, Accra, Ghana, July 2011.

Discussant – NEA Panel on International Economic Issues: Africa and Latin America, ASSA Meetings, Denver January 2011.

Participant – African Center for Economic Transformation Workshop on African Transformation Report, Accra, Ghana, November 2010.

Participant- Ad-hoc Expert Group meeting on New Directions in Africa's Development in the Context of Global Economic Realities, Addis Ababa, November 2009.

Participant – SID meeting on Identities and Conflict in East Africa: Research & Programme Design Roundtable, Nairobi, July 2009

Discussant – NEA Panel on African Development and African Immigration, ASSA meetings, New Orleans, January 2008.

Discussant – AFEA Panel on Development Policy in Africa, , ASSA meetings, New Orleans, January 2008.

Discussant – URPE Panel on Heterodox Development Economics , ASSA meetings, New Orleans, January 2008.

Participant – United Nations Development Program MDG-Based Economic Alternatives, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts November 2005

Discussant – URPE Panel: Research on International Political Economy, ASSA, Washington DC, January 2003.

Discussant – AFEA Panel: Human Capital and African Economic Development, ASSA, Washington DC, January 2003.

Participant - United Nations Development Program and International Labour Organisation Expert’s meeting on “New Strategies for Redistribution with Growth,” University of London, SOAS, London, October 2001.

Participant - National Human Development Report Workshop, Nairobi, August 2001.

Discussant – New Developments in Marxian Economics, Research and Theory, ASSA Meetings, New Orleans, January 2001.

Discussant – URPE Panel on “(Re)Presenting Class: Postmodern Marxian Perspectives,” ASSA Meetings, New York, January 1999.

Discussant – Invited Panel on “Exploring Aspects of Economic Well-Being,” Southern Economic Association Meetings, November 1998.

Discussant – Panel on “Reflections of our Past,” Symposium on Thinking Economics at the Close of the Twentieth Century. Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, October 1997.

Participant - UNESCO workshop on: “Cultural Indicators and the World Cultural Report” at the Fondation Royaumont, Asnieres sur Oise, France, May 1996.

Participant - Workshop on “Environment, Politics and Resource Control in African Development: Prospects and Practices for Sustainable Development,” Institute of International Studies, University of California - Berkeley. December 1995.