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Ilene Grabel
Professor of International Economics
Ilene Grabel
ph | 303.871.2546
e | igrabel@du.edu
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2201 South Gaylord St
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Ilene Grabel is an Economist and Professor and Director of the graduate program in Global Trade, Finance and Economic Integration. Grabel has lectured at the Cambridge University Advanced Programme on Rethinking Development Economics since its founding. She has worked as a consultant to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)/International Poverty Centre, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Economic Development (UNCTAD)/G24, the UN University's World Institute for Development Economics Research, and the international NGO coalition, "New Rules for Global Finance." She has also presented her research to the delegates of the Second Committee of the United Nations General Assembly on the Financing for Development process, and has participated in Expert Group meetings at the United Nations.
Grabel has published widely on the political economy of financial reform in the developing country context, financial policy and crises, international capital flows, central banks and currency boards, and development policy. Her work has appeared in numerous edited books and in the Cambridge Journal of Economics, World Development, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Economic Issues, Economía Informa. International Review of Applied Economics, International Papers in Political Economy, Eastern Economics Journal, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Monthly Review, and the Review of Radical Political Economics.
She is co-author (with Ha-Joon Chang) of Reclaiming Development: An Alternative Policy Manual (London: Zed Books, 2004; US distributor: Palgrave Macmillan). The book seeks to go beyond mere criticism of the economic policies that have been pursued in the developing world over the last quarter of a century. The book's main contribution is the concrete articulation of alternative economic policies that can promote robust economic development that is stable, sustainable and equitable. The book went into its second printing after its October 2004 release, and has been translated into Turkish. It is presently being translated into Indonesian, Spanish, Portuguese and Korean (forthcoming 2006).
Grabel recently completed "Financial Policies for Pro-Poor Growth" (with Gerald Epstein) for the UNDP/International Poverty Centre's Global Training Programme on "Economic Policies for Growth, Employment and Poverty Reduction." In 2005-06, Grabel was the recipient of the United Methodist Church "University Scholar/Teacher of the Year" award.