Staff
Professor Michael Woolcock - Associate Director
Professor Michael Woolcock
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Michael Woolcock is Professor of Social Science and Development Policy, and Associate Director of the Brooks World Poverty Institute. From 1998-2007 he was a member of the Poverty Team within the Development Research Group at the World Bank, and from 2000-2006 was also a part-time Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He has been a team member of two World Development Reports (including the 2000/01 report on ‘Attacking Poverty’), and has published extensively on the social dimensions of economic development, in particular the role of social institutions in shaping the survival and mobility strategies of the poor. An Australian national, he has an MA (1992) and PhD (1998) in sociology from Brown University |
| Key activities at BWPI | Coordination of research activities and its links to development policy |
| Current research areas | Local conflict, institutional transitions, evaluation, rules systems, social theory, poverty knowledge |
| Recent publications | See full list of publications on University publications database . |
| Books | Social Exclusion and Mobility in Brazil (with Estanislao Gacitúa Marió) Rio de Janeiro: IPEA and Washington, DC: The World Bank (2007) Law, Equity, and Development (with Caroline Sage) Amsterdam: Martinus Nijhoff and Washington, DC: World Bank (2006) The Search for Empowerment: Social Capital as Idea and Practice at the World Bank (with Anthony Bebbington, Scott Guggenheim, and Elizabeth Olson) Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press (2005) |
| Journal articles | 'The Fiction of Development: Literary Representation as a Source of Authoritative Knowledge’ (with David Lewis and Dennis Rodgers) Journal of Development Studies (2008) ‘Governance in the Gullies: Democratic Responsiveness and Community Leadership in Delhi’s Slums’ (with Saumitra Jha and Vijayendra Rao) World Development (2007) ‘Social Cohesion, Institutions, and Growth’ (with William Easterly and Jozef Ritzen) Economics & Politics (2006) ‘The Varieties of Resource Experience: How Natural Resource Export Structures Affect the Political Economy of Economic Growth’ (with Jonathan Isham, Lant Pritchett, and Gwen Busby). World Bank Economic Review (2005) ‘Health by Association? Social Capital, Social Theory and the Political Economy of Public Health’ (with Simon Szreter) International Journal of Epidemiology (2004)
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| Working papers | Toward an Economic Sociology of Chronic Poverty: Enhancing the Rigor and Relevance of Social Theory’ Chronic Poverty Research Centre, Working Paper No. 104 |
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