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Dr Alberto Paloni, BA, MSc, PhD

Senior Lecturer and Head of Department

a.paloni@lbss.gla.ac.uk
Tel: +44(0)141 330 4656
Room S318
Contact Jane Brittin to make an appointment

Teaching 2009-10

Postgraduate : IMF, World Bank and Economic Growth

Current PhD supervision: Financial openness in developing countries; Trade liberalisation in developing countries.

Research interests

His research interests are in the area of development and economic policy reforms in developing countries. He has published several articles in specialised journals and books on the reform programmes supported by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank; foreign direct investment in developing countries; the political economy of reforms; and the implications of globalisation for policy reform.

Background

Alberto joined the Department in September 1991. He holds a PhD degree and a MSc degree in Economics both from Birkbeck College (University of London) and a first degree in Economics from 'La Sapienza' University of Rome.

Selected publications since 2001

Noorbakhsh, F. and Paloni, A., (2007) ‘Learning from Structural Adjustment: Why Selectivity May Not be the Key to Successful Programmes in Africa,’ Journal of International Development, vol. 19(7), pp. 927-948.

Paloni, A. and Zanardi, M. (2006). 'Development policy lending, conditionality and ownership: a dynamic agency model perspective', Review of Development Economics, vol.10, pp. 253-266.

Paloni, A. and Zanardi, M. (2006). The IMF, World Bank and Policy Reform, London: Routledge.

Paloni, A. and Zanardi, M. (2006). 'IMF, world bank and policy reform: introduction and overview', in (A. Paloni, A and M. Zanardi, eds.), The IMF, World Bank and Policy Reform, pp. 1-25, London: Routledge.

Paloni, A. and Zanardi, M. (2006). 'Can conditionality improve borrower ownership?' in (A. Paloni, and M. Zanardi, eds.), The IMF, World Bank and Policy Reform, pp. 292-311, London: Routledge.

Paloni, A. (2005). 'The World Bank', in (M. Griffiths, ed.), Encyclopedia of International Relations and Global Politics, London: Routledge.

Paloni, A. (2005). 'Conditionality', in (M. Griffiths, ed.), Encyclopedia of International Relations and Global Politics, London: Routledge.

Noorbakhsh, F., Paloni, A. and Youssef, A. (2004). ‘Human capital and FDI inflows to developing countries: new empirical evidence', in: (S. Young, ed.), Multinationals and Public Policy, “The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics” series edited by M. Blaug, Cheltenham, UK: Elgar.

Noorbakhsh, F., Paloni, A. and Youssef, A. (2002). 'Looking for human capital: multinationals' investment in developing countries', in (F. Analoui, ed.) The Changing Patterns of Human Resource Development, pp. 104-120, Aldershot: Ashgate.

Noorbakhsh, F. and Paloni, A. (2002). ‘The design of conditionality and the likelihood of implementation of policy reforms: A challenge for more effective development cooperation’, in: EADI (European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes)-Gemdev, Europe and the South in the 21st century: Challenges for renewed cooperation, Parigi: Karthala, in CD-Rom

Noorbakhsh, F., Paloni, A. and Youssef, A. (2001). 'Human capital and foreign direct investment inflows to developing countries: new empirical evidence', World Development, vol. 29(9), pp. 1593-1610.

Noorbakhsh, F. and Paloni, A. (2001). '"Structural adjustment programmes and growth in sub-Saharan Africa: The importance of complying with conditionality', Economic Development and Cultural Change, vol. 49(3), pp. 479-509.

Referee activities

Referee for the following academic journals:
Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, International Economic Journal, International Review of Applied Economics, Journal of Asia Pacific Economy, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Surveys, Journal of International Development, Review of Development Economics, Review of International Organizations, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, World Development.

Referee for the following publishers:
McGraw-Hill, Palgrave, Pearson Education, Routledge

Referee for the Social Science Research Unit of the Department for International Development of grant applications for research projects and final research reports

Referee for the Economic and Social Research Council of grant applications for research projects

Public speaking

‘The forgotten millions, the missing millions and the missing policies’, in a public meeting on ‘An end to poverty: Progress, prospects and policies’, University of Glasgow, 21 April 2006

'Making poverty history through trade: truths and rhetoric before the WTO meeting in Hong Kong', St. Matthew's Church, Kilmarnock, 27 November 2005. 'Trade and poverty: Can the WTO meeting in Hong Kong make history?", Henderson Church, Kilmarnock, 20 November 2005. Both meetings where the talks were given were hosted by Des Browne MP, Chief Secretary to the UK Treasury.

'Privatisation, poverty and the World Bank; The privatisation of public services in developing countries', University of Glasgow, 1 March 2004. This public meeting was sponsored among others by the Department for International Development.

'The changing roles of the IMF and the World Bank' in a public meeting on 'The world of international money', Glasgow, 12 November 2004

Current affiliations

  • Member of the Development Studies Association
  • External Research Fellow of the Centre for Research in International Trade and Development (CREDIT), University of Nottingham
  • Accredited Member of the Higher Education Academy
  • Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, 'Roma Tre' University (Rome)
  • Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, University of Bari