ANIL B. DEOLALIKAR

Department of Economics Telephone: (951) 827-1575

Sproul Hall 4120 Fax: (951) 827-5685

University of California, Riverside Email: anil.deolalikar@ucr.edu

Riverside, CA 92521-0427

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

· Analysis of poverty and poverty-reduction policies in developing countries

· Microeconomics of household decision-making in developing countries

· Economics of education and education-sector reform

· Health-care financing and health sector reform in developing countries

· Social protection

COUNTRY EXPERIENCE

· Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam

· Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda

· Jamaica

· Poland, Russia

EDUCATION

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in economic demography, Yale University, 1980-81

Ph.D. in economics, Stanford University, 1981

Diploma in economics, Cambridge University (U.K.), 1978

B.A. summa cum laude in economics, Harvard University, 1977

HONORS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND AWARDS

Royalty Research Award, University of Washington, 1994-95

Robert S. McNamara Fellowship, World Bank, 1990-91

Boeing Endowment for Excellence Award, University of Washington, Summer 1990

Graduate School Research Fund Award, University of Washington, 1990

University Research Foundation Award, University of Pennsylvania, 1987

University Research Fund Award, University of Pennsylvania, 1985

Rockefeller Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 1980-81

Ford Foundation Award for Dissertation Research, 1979-80

Graduate Fellowship, Stanford University, 1978-80

King's College Studentship, Cambridge University, 1977-78

Harvard College Scholarship, 1973-77

Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard University, 1977

WORK HISTORY

University of California, Riverside July 2002 – present

· Professor of Economics, 2002 - present. On leave during academic year 2002-03.

· Graduate Program Adviser, Department of Economics, 2003 - present. Responsible for overall management of the Department’s Ph.D. program, which has a total of 65 enrolled students. Responsibilities include admission of students into the program, awarding of assistantships and fellowships, proposing and implementing changes in the graduate curriculum, and advising graduate students on general academic and administrative matters.

· Director, Public Policy Initiative. This is a multi-disciplinary initiative, launched in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, that envisions bringing together faculty in different disciplines with an interest in public policy as well as the creation of an undergraduate major and a Master’s degree in public policy at the University. In addition, a public policy specialization (minor) will also be offered in the Ph.D. programs of several departments.

World Bank (India Resident Mission), New Delhi July 2002 - August 2003

· Lead Human Development Economist, South Asia Region. Based in the World Bank Resident Mission, New Delhi, India (while on leave from the University of California, Riverside). My main responsibility was to prepare a major analytical study on “Attaining the Millennium Development Goals in South Asia.”

University of Washington, Seattle September 1989 – June 2002

· Professor of Economics and of International Studies, 1996-2002 (on sabbatical during 1995-96). Associate Professor of Economics, 1989-95.

· Chair, South Asia Studies Program, and Director, South Asia Center, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, 2001–02.

· Member of the Advisory Board of the Population Leadership Program – a joint program of the Evans School of Public Affairs, the School of Public Health, and the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (CSDE) that brought mid-career population and family planning officials from developing countries to UW for leadership training. Also served as mentor to several visiting Population Fellows in this program.

· Member of the Advisory Board of the International Development Certificate Program (IDCP) – a multi-disciplinary graduate certificate program in international development offered by the Evans School of Public Affairs.

· Director of Graduate Studies, University of Washington, 1991-95.

· Faculty Affiliate of the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, 1989-2002. Member of the Advisory Board of the Center, 2000-02.

· Faculty Affiliate of the Southeast Asia Studies Program in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, 1989-2002.

· Member of the University Faculty Senate, 1990-91.

World Bank (Regional Mission for Eastern Africa), Nairobi July 1995 - August 1996

Long-Term Consultant, Human Development, Regional Mission for Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya (while on sabbatical leave from the University of Washington). Provided analytical support to various World Bank studies and projects in Eastern Africa, including:

· Design of the Bank’s health sector reform project in Kenya, which was a sector investment program that included disease-, region- and population-targeting of public health interventions, development of private health insurance, and decentralization of health services,

· Design and implementation of a project to pilot-test a community rural health insurance scheme in the Iringa region of Tanzania, which was a component of a larger health-sector reform project in Tanzania,

· Development of a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system for the Early Childhood Education and Nutrition Project in Kenya,

· Design of an M&E system for two education projects in Tanzania — the Community Education Fund and the Girls' Secondary Education Support project,

· Design and formulation of a social-sector strategy for Ethiopia, based on locally-executed and World Bank-assisted studies on the cost and financing of social services,

· Preparation of the Bank's first health sector project in Eritrea, including designing and implementing the first household health survey in that country, and

· Preparation of a project on the cost and financing of primary education in Kenya.

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 1983-89

· Assistant Professor of Economics, 1983-89 (on sabbatical during 1987-88).

· Member of the Graduate Groups in Demography, International Studies, and South Asia Regional Studies

· Research Associate of the Population Studies Center

· Research Associate of the Center for the Analysis of Developing Economies (CADE)

· Affiliate of the Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies, Wharton School of Finance

Harvard University, Cambridge 1987-88

· Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, 1987-88.

· Visiting Scholar, Center for Population Studies, School of Public Health, 1987-88.

Yale University, New Haven 1981-83

· Research Associate, Economic Growth Center, 1981-83.

· Lecturer of Economics, 1981-83.

HONORARY POSITIONS

Honorary Research Associate, The National Council of Applied Economics Research (NCAER), New Delhi, India, 1996-98.

Honorary Research Associate, Lembaga Demografi (The Demographic Institute), University of Indonesia, 1990-92.

Honorary Research Associate, Department of Economics and Statistics, The RAND Corporation, 1991-95.

Robert S. McNamara Fellow, World Bank, 1990-91.

PUBLICATIONS

Attaining the Millennium Development Goals in India: How Likely and What Will It Take to Reduce Infant Mortality, Child Malnutrition, Gender Disparities and Hunger-Poverty and to Increase School Enrollment and Completion? Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2005.

“The Millennium Development Goals for India: How Attainable?” in Raghbendra Jha (editor), Economic Growth, Economic Performance and Welfare in South Asia, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2005.

“Bangladesh’s Progress on the Millennium Development Goals: Issues and Challenges,” in Sadiq Ahmed (editor), Poverty and Human Development in Bangladesh, , Dhaka, 2005.

“Tobacco Initiation, Cessation and Change: Evidence from Vietnam” (with Ramanan Laxminarayan), Health Economics 13(12), 2004.

“Health Insurance and Treatment-Seeking Behaviour: Evidence from a Low-Income Country” (with Matthew Jowett and Peter Martinsson), Health Economics 13, 2004: 845-857.

“Economies of Scale and Scope in Vietnamese Hospitals” (with Marcia Weaver), Social Science and Medicine 59: 199-208, 2004.

“The Role of Decentralization in Promoting Effective Schooling in Developing Asia” (with Jere R. Behrman and Lee-Ying Soon), Asian Development Review 20(1), 2003.

Poverty, Growth and the Role of Institutions in Asia (edited jointly with Ernesto Pernia), Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2003.

“Poverty Reduction: Approaches and the Role of Political Institutions” (with Ernesto Pernia), in Ernesto Pernia and Anil Deolalikar, eds., Poverty, Growth and the Role of Institutions in Asia, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2003.

“Poverty, Growth, and Inequality in Thailand,” in Ernesto Pernia and Anil Deolalikar, eds., Poerty, Growth and the Role of Institutions in Asia, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2003.

Editor, Journal of Asian and African Studies special issue on “Poverty, Growth and Safety Nets: a Comparative Regional Perspective,” Vol. 37(2), July 2002. The issue contains papers by Amartya Sen, Jean Dreze, Peter Warr, Raghav Gaiha, Arsenio Balisacan, Ernesto Pernia, Vinay Gidwani, and myself.

“Access to Health Services by the Poor and the Non-Poor: The Case of Vietnam,” Journal of Asian and African Studies 37(2), July 2002: 244-261.

“The Health and Medical Sector in India: Potential Reforms and Problems” (with Prem S. Vashsishtha), in S. Kahkonen and A. Lanyi, eds., Institutions, Incentives and Economic Reforms in India, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2000.

“Socioeconomic Development in Cambodia,” in David Sloper, ed., Higher Education in Cambodia: The Social and Educational Context for Reconstruction, UNESCO, 1999.

“Increasing School Quantity versus Quality in a Less-Developed Country: Impact on Children from Low- and High-Income Households,” Journal of Policy Reform, Volume 2, 1998: 223-246.

“Gender and Savings in Rural India” (with Elaina Rose), Journal of Population Economics, 11(4), 1998: 453-470.

“The Demand for Dowries and Bride Characteristics in Marriage: Empirical Estimates for Rural South-Central India” (with Vijayendra Rao), in Ratna Sudarshan, ed., Gender, Population and Development, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998.

“The Demand for Health Services in Indonesia: The Role of Prices, Service Quality, and Reporting of Illnesses,” in Aman Ullah and David E.A. Giles, eds., Handbook of Applied Economic Statistics, New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1997.

“Competitiveness and Human Resource Development in Asia” (with Rana Hasan, Haider Khan and M.G. Quibria), Asian Development Review 15(2): 131-163, 1997.

“Child Nutrition and Child Growth in Kenya: Socioeconomic Determinants,” Journal of International Development 8(3), 1996: 375-393.

“Special Employment Programs and Poverty Alleviation,” Asian Development Review 13(2), 1995.

“Government Health Spending in Indonesia: Impacts on Children in Different Economic Groups” in D. van de Walle and K. Nead, editors, Public Spending and the Poor: Theory and Evidence, Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press (for the World Bank), 1995.

“Marriage Markets, Labor Markets and Unobserved Human Capital: An Empirical Exploration for South-Central India” (with Jere Behrman and Nancy Birdsall), Economic Development and Cultural Change 43(3), April 1995: 585-602.

“Are There Differential Returns to Schooling by Gender? The Case of Indonesian Labor Markets” (with Jere R. Behrman), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 57(1), February 1995: 97-118.

“The Demand for Inputs and the Supply of Output in Pakistan: Estimating a Fixed-Effects, Distributed-Lag Model for Wheat Farmers” (with Stephen A. Vosti), Pakistan Development Review 32(4), Winter 1993: 751-766.

“Population Growth and Economic Development Revisited with Reference to Asia” (with S.C. Jha and E.M. Pernia), Asian Development Review 11(2), 1993: 1-46.

“Persistent, Expected and Innate Poverty: Estimates for Semi-arid Rural South India, 1975-84” (with Raghav Gaiha), Cambridge Journal of Economics