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Mailing Address Department of Economics University of Massachusetts, 902 Thompson Hall 200 Hicks Way Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 USA

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Research Interests - 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

Teaching Interests - 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

Publications * Books: An Employment-Targetted Economic Plan for Kenya (with Robert Pollin and James Heintz), UNDP and PERI 2007 (Forthcoming Edward Elgar 2008). Ten Millionaires and Ten Million Beggars: A Study of Income and Development in Kenya, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, England (December 2000). Chapters in Books: "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 (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). "Class Transition in the Age of Globalization: Uneven Development in Rural India and Kenya," (with Anjan Chakrabarti and Stephen Cullenberg) in Robert Pollin et al. (eds.) Egalitarian Development in the Era of Globalization, Edward Elgar Press (July 2006) Journal Articles: "Kenya's Hopes and Impediments. (with Frank Holmquist) Journal of Eastern African Studies (Forthcoming 2008) "Excavating for Economics in Africana Studies," (With Patrick Mason) Journal of Black Studies. (Forthcoming 2008) "Deconstructing the Peasantry: Class and Development in Rural Kenya," (with S. Cullenberg) Critical Sociology, Volume 29, Issue 1, April 2003 pp. 67-88. "Income Distribution and Dualism: The Case of Kenya," Review of Development Economics, October 2000, Volume 4, Issue 3, pp 326-339. "Environmental Degradation and Poverty in Less Industrialized Nations," (with T. Kelly) Frontera Norte, Nm. Especial: Pobreza, 1994, pp. 77-89. "Social and Ecological Sustainability in the Use of Biotic Resources in Sub-Saharan Africa," (with C. Perrings) Ambio, Volume 22 No. 2-3, May 1993, pp.110-116.

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