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Globalization
Researchers
 Kevin P. Gallagher, Senior Researcher
Kevin P. Gallagher focuses on trade and industrial development. He is involved in research in the areas of Foreign Investment, Mexico Under NAFTA, WTO and Global Trade and China in Latin America. His recent books include The Enclave Economy: Foreign Investment and Sustainable Development in Mexico's Silicon Valley (with Lyuba Zarsky), Putting
Development First: The Importance of Policy Space in
the WTO and IFIs, and Free
Trade and the Environment: Mexico, NAFTA, and Beyond. Gallagher also serves as an associate professor of international relations at Boston University. He writes a regular column on globalization and development for The Guardian. [BU Faculty Web Page]
 Timothy A. Wise, Director, Research and Policy Program
Timothy A. Wise directs GDAE's policy research and
leads its Globalization and Sustainable Development Program. With a background in international development, he specializes in agricultural policy and rural development. He is involved in ongoing research in the areas of: Sustainable Rural Development, Beyond Agricultural Subsidies, Mexico Under NAFTA, WTO and Global Trade. He is the co-author of the book (in English and Spanish), Confronting
Globalization: Economic Integration and Popular Resistance
in Mexico, and The Promise and the Perils of Agricultural Trade Liberalization: Lessons from Latin America. [C.V.]
 Ann Helwege, Senior Research Fellow
Ann Helwege focuses on the relationship between macroeconomic policy and poverty in Latin America. She is the co-author of Latin America’s Economy as well as co-editor of Latin America’s Economic Future and Modernization and Stagnation: Latin American Agriculture
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 Roberto Porzecanski, Research Fellow
Roberto Porzecanski, a pre-doctoral fellow at GDAE, is a doctoral candidate at the
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts. His research focuses on the political economy of foreign investment in the Southern Cone. He is the author of (in Spanish)
Not On Board:Uruguay and the Prospects for a Free Trade Agreement with the United States, 2000-2010 (Debate, Random House Mondadori, June 2010) and co-author
of The Dragon in the Room: China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization
, with Kevin P. Gallagher, Stanford University Press, 2010.
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 Kenneth Shadlen, Senior Research Fellow
Kenneth C. Shadlen is a senior lecturer (associate professor) of Development Studies
at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the co-editor of The Political Economy of Hemispheric Integration: Responding to Globalization in the Americas (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) and the author of Democratization Without Representation: The Politics of Small Industry in Mexico (Penn State University Press, 2004). His current research addresses the politics of intellectual property (IP) and North-South economic integration. [C.V.]
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 Maria del Carmen Vera-Diaz, Senior Research Fellow
Maria del Carmen Vera-Diaz coordinates the project “Trade, Agricultural Expansion, and Climate Change in the Amazon Basin.” Her current research focuses on the analysis of large-scale agricultural expansion, in soybeans and other crops, driven by the growing bio-fuel market and the impact on deforestation, protected areas, and indigenous lands in the Amazon. [C.V.]
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 Lyuba Zarsky, Senior Research Fellow
Lyuba Zarsky works on sustainable industrial development and is the author of "Searching for the gold: A mid-term evaluation of the costs and benefits of Goldcorp’s Marlin Mine in Guatemala." Her recent books include The Enclave Economy: Foreign Investment and Sustainable Development in Mexico’s Silicon Valley (with Kevin Gallagher). She is also a professor at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. [C.V.]
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The Global Development and Environment Institute’s Globalization and Sustainable Development Program examines the economic, social and environmental impacts of economic integration in developing countries, with a particular emphasis on the WTO and NAFTA's lessons for trade and development policy. The goal of the program is to identify policies and international agreements that foster sustainable development. |
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