Larry Sawers

Larry Sawers received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and is Professor of Economics at American University in Washington, DC, USA. He has been offering courses in development economics to graduate and undergraduate students at the university since the early 1980s. He has also taught development economics at the Pontif�cia Universidad Cat�lica del Ecuador in Quito, the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, and at the EuroFaculty of Vilnius University in...See more

Larry Sawers received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and is Professor of Economics at American University in Washington, DC, USA. He has been offering courses in development economics to graduate and undergraduate students at the university since the early 1980s. He has also taught development economics at the Pontif�cia Universidad Cat�lica del Ecuador in Quito, the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, and at the EuroFaculty of Vilnius University in Lithuania. He has traveled in over 45 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and former members of the Soviet-bloc in Eastern Europe. He has lived abroad for extended periods in Argentina, Tanzania, Ecuador, Spain, and Lithuania. He received Fulbright Senior Scholar Awards to teach and conduct research in three of those countries. His research in the field of development economics has centered on regional disparities, macroeconomic policy, and health. His research has been published in journals such as Latin American Research Review, Journal of Latin American Studies, Development and Change, Journal of Developing Areas, Economic History Review, Economic Development and Cultural Change, World Development, Review of Income and Wealth, American Economic Review, Monthly Review, Journal of Economic Issues, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Health, Social Science History, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Baltic Journal of Economics, African Journal of AIDS Research, and Journal of the International AIDS Society. He authored The Other Argentina: The Interior and National Development, co-edited several books on urban and regional development and on financial markets in developing countries, and authored or co-authored chapters in a dozen books. See less