Professor, Afroamerican and African Studies/Epidemiology
About
Howard Stein is professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and in the Department of Epidemiology. He is a development economist educated in Canada, the US, and the UK who has taught in both Asia and Africa. His research has focused on foreign aid, finance and development, structural adjustment, health and development, property right formalization and poverty and industrial policy and manufacturing in Africa and Asia. Since 2009, he has been part of an interdisciplinary team analyzing the impact of property right formalization on poverty in rural Tanzania. They have undertaken a socioeconomic survey of around 2000 households in 40 villages in eight districts covering four regions in the country and are currently in the process of returning to the same households visited 6-8 years ago to undertake longitudinal surveys. His most recent books are Beyond the World Bank Agenda: An Institutional Approach to Development (University of Chicago Press, 2008, paperback edition, 2014), Good Growth and Governance in Africa: Rethinking Development Strategies (Oxford University Press, January,2012) co-edited with Joseph Stiglitz, Akbar Noman, and Kwesi Botchway and Gendered Insecurities, Health, and Development in Africa (Routledge, 2012, paperback 2016) co-edited with Amal Fadlalla. He was also the principal coauthor of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Economic Report for Africa 2014, Dynamic Industrialization in Africa: Innovative Institutions, Effective Processes and Flexible Mechanism. He teaches a variety of courses in DAAS and Epidemiology including the history of African economic development, graduate pro-seminar in African studies, Africa and post-war development theory and policy and health and socio-economic development and the political economy of African development.
Projects:
- Industrial Policy, Export Processing Zones and Manufacturing in Kenya
- Book Project for Oxford University Press on Industrial Policy and Institution in Kenya
- Property Right Formalization and Poverty in Rural Tanzania.
