Thomas Pinckney
Dean of the CDE
Director of Graduate Studies 1992-1996
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Education
Ph.D., Stanford University 1986
Fields
rural development, food policy, agricultural growth
Country Experience
Kenya, Malawi, Pakistan, Tanzania
Publications and Working Papers
- Thomas Pinckney, "Why Low Inequality Spurs Growth: Savings and
Investment by the Poor," (with Nancy Birdsall and Richard
Sabot) in Inequality, the State, and Social Values, forthcoming.
- ___________, "Does Education Increase Agricultural Productivity
in Africa?" in Issues in Agricultural Competetiveness: Markets
and Policies, 1996.
- ___________, "Education and Agricultural Productivity in Kenya,"
(with Kaye Husbands
and Tobias Konyango) in Public Expenditure and Economic Growth in Africa,
1996.
- ___________, "Smallholder Wood Production and Population Pressure
in East Africa: Evidence of an Environmental Kuznets Curve?" (with
Sandeep Patel and William
Jaeger) Land Economics, 1995.
- ___________, "Land Tenure Reform in East Africa: Good, Bad, or
Unimportant," (with Peter Kimuyu) Journal of African Economies,
1994.
- ___________, "Is Market Liberilization Compatible with Food Security?
Storage, Trade, and Price Policies for Maize in Southern Africa,"
Food Policy, 1993.
- ___________, "The Effects of Pricing Policy on Seasonal Storage
of Wheat in Pakistan," Agricultural Economics, 1991.
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