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Simon Fass focuses on social, economic and political development. His work with the Asian Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, World Bank, United Nations, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and other international organizations, as well as with bilateral aid organizations such as the United States Agency for International Development and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, has covered many countries of Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. His research has been published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of the American Planning Association, International Migration Review, Development and Change, Studies in Comparative International Development, and World Development. His book, Political Economy in Haiti: The Drama of Survival, was selected by Choice, the journal of the Association of College and Research Libraries, as an Outstanding Academic Book of 1989. With a co author, in 1990 he received the Outstanding Scholarship Award from the Comparative and International Education Society for an article, "Monetary Consumption Benefits and Demand for Primary Schooling," published in Comparative Education Review. In recent years his research has looked at informal sector activities in Indonesia, the economics of street food vending in Haiti, relationships between education and political decentralization in West Africa, community schooling in Chad, pawnbroking in the United States, cost-benefit analysis of juvenile court dispositions, and an evaluation of drug treatment program effectiveness. Before coming to Texas, Dr. Fass was Associate Professor of Planning at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. He teaches, program evaluation and design, statistics, cost benefit analysis, and courses in social and economic development.
- Updated: July 26, 2006
